women in music

Tina Turner did not emerge quietly. From the moment her voice reached a wider audience, it carried force, urgency, and…

Ella Fitzgerald’s voice remains one of the most instantly recognisable sounds in the history of music. Her effortless phrasing, purity…

Billie Holiday Biography Billie Holiday was a well-known American jazz singer who was born on 7 April 1915 as Eleanora…

Nina Simone Biography Nina Simone was a complicated woman.  Extraordinarily talented musically, she played a wide variety of styles, and…