

Bessie muere tras un accidente automovilístico cerca de Clarksdale Memphis, en una gira por el Misisipi, el 26 de septiembre de 1937; aunque tristemente su muerte estará marcada por la terrible posibilidad de haber sido causada por la falta de atención oportuna debida al racismo sureño de Estados Unidos, tema que nunca se aclaró, pero tampoco se desmintió. Escuchen esta voz y disfrútenla:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BZVD8QqNoak
Musical Memory Thursday and nothing better to talk a little about the Blues Empress: Bessie Smith, she was born on April 15th 1894, in Tennessee (USA); with an extraordinary voice touched all sensibility through her rhythmic and diction skills. Bessie entered to the world art as a Moses Strokes' dancer, where she met Ma Rainey, who teached her all about the whole development stage, but to see and hear so frequently to the Mother of the Blues, surely contributed more!
Bessie Smith is driven by her brother Clarence who would get her first professional contract as a soloist in 1912 and the folllowing year already had a spectacle ebery day offered greater recognition in the South of United States, Columbia Records discovers her in 1917 and increases her fame only in three years; but the Blues would be a business from the second decade of the twentieth century and her first recording is performed until 1923 with an Alberta Hunter cover "Downhearted blues" the same year she recorded "Jailhouse blues" that eventually lead to a irrefutable success, being the best black actress paid in time.
Take advantage of winters to mount her show on stage and the rest of year, run different tours; she sang with the most important artist of the age, especially highlighting the theme "St Louis Blues" in perfect balance of her voice with the Louis Amstrong trumpet solos. The shortfilm also called "St Louis Blues" encouraged her to make a musical not too success; soon came the Great Depression and the music industry declined with her career, although this will remove the spirit of continuing to seek opportunities to grow, so John Hammond, don't know, the last Bessie recordings with a magnificent accompanimente of large stars Swing within the Band, as Benny Goodman, Frankie Newton and Chu Berry.
Bessie died after a car accident near Clarksdale Memphis, on a tour of the Mississippi, on Sseptember 26th, 1937; but sadly her death will be marked by the terrible possibility of being caused by the lack of timely tratment due to US Southern Racism, an issue that was never clarified, but neither denied. Listen this voice and enjoy it:
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