Dionne Warwick
World-renowned African-American recording artist
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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.
Maggie Ingram
Matriach of the Legendary Ingramettes, widely considered Richmond, Va.’s “First Family of Gospel,” uplifting audiences for over six decades while becoming beloved cultural icons in the community.
Elizabeth Rebecca Edwin
1800s Irish actress and singer
Wu Man
Wu Man belongs to a rare group of musicians whose vivid brilliance, commanding personality, and range of expression has redefined their instrument, in her case, the pipa, a centuries-old, pear-shaped, four-stringed Chinese lute.
Koko Taylor
Singer often called the “Queen of the Blues”