Here are nine iconic Black female blues singers who birthed the genre people know today. Nina Simone. Often called the “High Priestess of Soul,” Nina Simone was blues embodied.

Cited as one of the first representations of black queer popular culture, Ma Rainey's sensational Prove It on Me Blues is a ...

She’ll bring the exhibit to Cleveland next month for the inaugural Women of the Blues Festival that takes place from Thursday, March 6, through Sunday, March 9, at the Treelawn.

Performances by descendants of blues royalty, including Teeny Tucker (daughter of Tommy Tucker), Shemekia Copeland (daughter of Johnny Copeland), and Tomiko Dixon (granddaughter of Willie Dixon).

Fish won the 2012 Blues Music Award for Best New Artist and the 2018 Blues Music Award for Contemporary Blues Female Artist of the Year, ...

The Women In Blues show will be Curran’s and Washington’s second Bull Run show in the past two months, as the latter opened for the former on February 6. Finally, singer and harmonica player ...

The “Women Of The Blues – A Coast To Coast Collection” is an exhibit of more than 100 photographs of 60 women blues musicians of all ages, ethnicities and eras.

Elaine Woo MacGregor, Urania’s Love–Shanghai Flâneuse (2024). Courtesy the artist. Painted with fluid brushstrokes, a Cantonese woman reclines on a bed of soft blues, strands of her dark hair ...