As it trickled out to the rest of the world, Black female blues singers broke boundaries and redefined the genre, establishing legacies that still influence music at large today.

If you would enjoy hearing four incredible voices giving superbly memorable performances of early blues and jazz classics, Alabama Shakespeare Festival’s “Blues in the Night” is a can’t ...

Such singers as Wallace and Victoria Spivey, another Houston native, were well-documented through the 1920s and into the 1930s, before big band became a preferred form of nightlife entertainment.

Here's how Mamie Smith paved the way for Ella Fitzgerald, Billie Holiday, Beyoncé and more of your favorite Black female recording artists.