Music Archives - Infinite Women

Anna Magdalena Bach

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 McCoy

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.

Minnie Pearl

Comedian Sarah Ophelia Colley Cannon, better known as Minnie Pearl, was part of the Grand Ole Opry for half a century.

Marjorie Florence Lawrence, an Australian native and star soprano with the Metropolitan Opera Company of New York City, became an exemplar for endurance when she rebuilt her career after being stricken by poliomyelitis (commonly known as polio).

Barbara Hendricks

American lyric soprano

Martha Reeves

Motown girl group Martha and the Vandellas not only recorded an anthem for the civil rights era – they fought for fair pay and proudly called themselves divas

Antonia Bembo

In the 1600s, Antonia Bembo fled Venice to escape her abusive husband – over three centuries later, her opera finally took the stage

Dr Lou Bennett

Lou Bennett is a performer, songwriter, musical and artistic director, composer, actor, soundscape and music designer and educator from the Yorta Yorta and Dja Dja Wurrung people in Echuca, Victoria, Australia.