Bessie Smith, Billie Holliday and Dinah Washington are icons of jazz . All suffered the double prejudice of being female and black, during the days of segregation. And each had an influence on the next.
Belle Benét is a Jazz & Blues Burlesque Cabaret Chanteuse & MC. Influenced by the sounds of Ella Fitzgerald & Dinah Washington with the panache of Barbara Streisand, Grace Jones, Eartha Kitt & Josephine Baker.
This was a terrific concert, filled to the brim with great music.