Ruby Murray
Popular 1900s Irish singer
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Betsayda Machado
Afro-Venezuelan singer
Sister Rosetta Tharpe
American rock and gospel singer, songwriter and guitarist
Jean Millington
Bassist and singer in the pioneering all-female rock band Fanny
June Millington
Filipina-American guitarist, songwriter, producer, educator, and actress
Annie Ross
As part of the vocal trio Lambert, Hendricks & Ross, Annie Ross was one of the early practitioners of a singing style known as “vocalese,” which involves the setting of original lyrics to an instrumental jazz solo.
Isobel Stone
American opera singer and composer
Flory Jagoda
Flory Jagoda escaped the destruction of Sarajevo’s Jewish community and came to the United States after World War II and became an important carrier of a unique musical heritage and also as a composer and arranger of new Sephardic songs.
Barbara Cook
American actress and singer who first came to prominence in the 1950s as the lead in the original Broadway musicals Plain and Fancy (1955), Candide (1956) and The Music Man (1957) among others, winning a Tony Award for the last.
Amina Claudine Myers
From her early beginnings as a member of the Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians (AACM), Amina Claudine Myers has gained acclaim as a skilled composer for voice and instruments, often displaying her gospel influences. Her move to New York City in the 1970s led her to prioritize her compositional work and to take on theatrical production projects.