Carrie Louise Smith was an American blues and jazz singer. She was not well known in the United States but had a cult following in Europe.
Smith was born in Fort Gaines, Georgia. She was a member of a church choir that performed at the 1957 Newport Jazz Festival. She first won notice singing with Big Tiny Little in the early 1970s, but became internationally known in 1974 when she played Bessie Smith in Dick Hyman's Satchmo Remembered at Carnegie Hall. Smith then launched a solo career, performi...
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