Mercedes Sosa
Haydée Mercedes Sosa was an Argentine singer popular throughout Latin America and beyond.
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Mary Morello
Mary Morello is an American activist who founded anti-censorship group Parents for Rock and Rap in 1987.
Ilma de Murska
Known as “The Croatian Nightingale”, Ilma de Murska was an acclaimed 19th-century soprano opera singer.
Yvette Guilbert
Yvette Guilbert was a French cabaret singer and actress of the Belle Époque, who also starred in several early films, from 1919 to 1936.
Sylvia Townsend Warner
Sylvia Townsend Warner was an English musicologist, novelist and poet, known for works such as the novels Lolly Willowes and After the Death of Don Juan, the poetry collection Whether a Dove or a Seagull and several short story collections.
Mistinguett
With risqué routines that captivated Paris, she would become the most popular French entertainer of her time and the highest-paid female entertainer in the world, known for her flamboyance and flair for the theatrical.
Laura Wentworth Fowler
“No woman is better known in Boston’s musical and club circles than Laura Wentworth Fowler.”
A C Bilbrew
Known as Madame A. C. Bilbrew, A. C. Harris Bilbrew was an American poet, musician, composer, playwright, clubwoman, and radio personality who lived in South Los Angeles. In 1923, she became the first black soloist to sing on a Los Angeles radio program. In the early 1940s, she hosted the city’s first African-American radio music program, The Gold Hour. LA County Library’s Willowbrook branch is named in her honor.