Music Archives - Infinite Women

Viola Gertrude Wells

Viola Gertrude Wells Evans was a popular singer specializing in gospel, blues, and jazz music.

Beatrice Freeland

Yosemite National Park Park Ranger, 1923-1924

Carmen McRae

Carmen McRae was one of the great singers of jazz, finding the depth of feeling in the lyrics of the songs she interpreted.

Cassandra Wilson has used her distinctive voice and fascinating arrangements of standards, in not just jazz, but blues, country, and folk as well, to create a body of work that has expanded the definition of jazz.

Dionne Warwick

World-renowned African-American recording artist

Sarah Vaughan

Singer Sarah Vaughan (1924-1990) launched her jazz career at the world-renowned Apollo theatre’s amateur-night contest.

Astrud Gilberto

Astrud Gilberto spread bossa nova to a welcoming world – but got little love back in Brazil

Mavis Staples

Powerful gospel and rhythm and blues singer

Antoinette de Saint-Étienne

First Nations nun who sang for a queen

Deborah Cheetham

World-renowned Aboriginal Australian opera singer, composer, playwright and creator of Australia’s first Aboriginal opera.