Once the highest-paid Black entertainer in the world, what was Bessie Smith known as?
Answer Empress of the Blues
Bessie Smith took home some $2,000 per week before the Great Depression (equivalent to some $30,000 today). Before she died in a car crash at the young age of 42, she'd already made a name for herself as the "Empress of the Blues."
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