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Bessie Smith
1892 - 1937
Birth place
Chattanooga, United S..
Death place
Clarksdale, United St..
Empress of the Blues of the 1920s; Janis Joplin donated her gravestone with the inscription: 'The Great Blues Singer In The World Will Never Stop Singing' / car accident
Buried by The Beat Goes On on September 26, 2011
