The past few years have seen music legend Quincy Jones open up about his experiences in the music biz, like never before. The music industry legend, and a winner of 28 Grammy awards, Jones recently lent his two cents on his personal experience with another musical icon – Elvis Presley, and what he said didn’t … “Quincy Jones Says He Wouldn’t Work With ‘Racist Motherf****er’ Elvis Presley”
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Mamie Smith – The First African-American Female to Make a Vocal Blues Recording in 1920
Before Aretha Franklin, before Billie Holiday and before Ella Fitzgerald, there was another pioneering female artist whose work as a recording artist set a precedent for female artists of color, back in the day. Her name was – Mamie Smith, and you don’t hear much about her by the masses and in popular culture of … “Mamie Smith – The First African-American Female to Make a Vocal Blues Recording in 1920”