Bessie Smith
Editorial Faber
Fecha de edición febrero 2021 · Edición nº 1
Idioma inglés
EAN 9780571362929
224 páginas
Libro
encuadernado en tapa blanda
Dimensiones 129 mm x 198 mm
Resumen del libro
BESSIE SMITH was born in Tennessee in 1894. Orphaned by the age of nine, she sang on street corners before becoming a big name in travelling shows. In 1923 she made her first recording for a new start-up called Columbia Records.
It sold 780,000 copies and made her a star. Smith's life was notoriously difficult: she drank pints of 'bathtub gin', got into violent fist fights, spent huge sums of money and had passionate love affairs with men and women. She once single-handedly fought off a cohort of the Ku Klux Klan.
