Huldah Charles Bassett
Welsh musician
Welsh musician
Welsh composer
Welsh composer
American blues and R&B singer and songwriter
Composer Pauline Oliveros asked “Why have there been no ‘great’ women composers?” in a 1970 opinion piece for The New York Times.
Mexican singer Lucha Reyes made a name for herself in the male-dominated cancion ranchera style
Australian music scholar Martin Jarvis argues that Johann Sebastian Bach’s six unaccompanied cello suites may have been composed by his second wife, Anna Magdalena Bach.
Rose Marie Hinton McCoy broke into the white, male-dominated music business in the early 1950s to become a highly sought-after songwriter whose career lasted over six decades.
Austrian composer
In the 1600s, Antonia Bembo fled Venice to escape her abusive husband – over three centuries later, her opera finally took the stage