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Which classic blues singer known as the "empress of the blues" developed her singing style in rough-and-tumble black vaudeville and tent shows and famously recorded w.c. handy's composition "st. louis blues" in 1925? ________________________?

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That'd be Bessie Smith! (I'd suggest going on youtube and listening to some of her stuff, she's really great!)
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