Billie Holiday
Billie Holiday's most controversial song.
What is "Strange Fruit"?
The age that Ray Charles started learning piano.
What is 5 years old?
The name of the song played for Bessie Smith on the slide presentation.
What is "Back Water Blues"?
The type of singer Muddy Waters was.
What is an American Blues singer?
Where blues music originated.
Where is the deep south?
Billie Holiday's nickname.
What is "Lady Day"?
The age that Ray Charles became blind.
What is 7 years old?
Bessie Smith's nickname.
What is the "Empress of the Blues"?
The two instruments that Muddy Waters taught himself how to play.
What are the harmonica and the guitar?
The place where jazz music originated.
Where is New Orleans?
How long the government hunted Billie Holiday for her controversial song.
Ray Charles's nickname.
What is "Brother Ray"?
The type of music that Bessie Smith helped create and popularize.
What is blues music?
The number of Grammys that Muddy Waters won.
What is 6?
The music artist that played a major role in creating post war electric blues.
Who is Muddy Waters?
What Billie Holiday was forced into at a young age to "earn her keep".
What is prostitution?
Ray Charles's song that was sampled by Kanye West's song "Gold Digger".
What is "I Got a Woman"?
The decades that Bessie Smith was the most popular blues singer.
When are the 1920's and the 1930's?
The major Grammy award that Muddy Waters won.
What is the Grammy Lifetime Award?
The reason blues and jazz are important.
What is helping create new genres of music?
The date that Billie Holiday was born.
When is April 7, 1915?
The date Ray Charles was born.
When is September 23, 1930?
The date Bessie Smith was born.
When is April 15, 1894?
The date that Muddy Waters was born.
When is April 4, 1913?
The emotions that blues music represents.
What are loss and grief?