But according to music historians, it's possible none of these women would have had the chance to achieve the soaring success they did without Mamie Smith blazing the trail before them.

Mamie Smith’s song wasn’t just an artistic breakthrough ... reading Bobby “Blue” Bland and Ahmad Jamal album covers. “In those days, album covers were the window on the world ...

Mamie Smith, on record as the first Black female singer, released a record titled “Crazy Blues” in 1920, making her the first to record and release a Blues song.

Mamie Smith set the tone for a new century of sound in global music. The Cincinnati native was the first singer to record the blues. It’s the foundational American music form upon which jazz ...

In 1920, Cincinnati, Ohio's Mamie Smith cut Perry Bradford's "Crazy Blues" for OKeh Records in New York City, marking the first recording of America's previously undocumented blues music form.

100 years ago, Mamie Smith recorded a seminal blues hit that gave voice to outrage at violence against Black Americans. By David Hajdu Mr. Hajdu is a cultural historian and music critic.

You may not have heard their names, but Black musicians like George Johnson, Ernest Hogan, and Mamie Smith were some of the country's first viral sensations, working within and pushing back ...

It looks like the Wikipedia page for famous blues singer Mamie Smith needs to be updated. New York Times Magazine writer and 2018 Guggenheim Fellow John Jeremiah Sullivan has confirmed that the “Queen ...