Nokutela Dube
South African political activist, educationist, and musician
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Penelope Jane Dunlop
South African singer-songwriter known as P. J. Powers
Maria Anna Mozart
1700s and 1800s Austrian composer
Anna Letitia Waring
1800s British hymn writer and poet
Carmen Amaya Amaya
Renowned Spanish flamenco dancer
Christine Jorgensen
American transgender trailblazer
Molly Malone
Irish fishmonger and heroine of song
Muireann Ní Bhrolcháin
Irish academic and activist
Brenda Lee
Singer Brenda Lee has enjoyed success as a child performer, teen idol, easy-listening chanteuse, and country music queen, sustained through each of these career transformations by a powerful voice. An important pioneer of early rock and roll, she achieved unprecedented international popularity during the 1960s.
Charlotte Thompson Reid
Charlotte Thompson Reid had already enjoyed a career as a nationally acclaimed singer before she began her second career relatively late in life as the widow and successor of a congressional candidate who died in mid-campaign.