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The Little Extras - The Divas of Gospel, Jazz & Blues
 
 

 

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The Bible Belting Babes
vs
The Bad-Ass Boulevard Broads

 

How could we ever forget the Three Bs?  Those Big, Black, and Beautiful Ladies of Song!  These women, whether praising the Lord (like the divine Mahalia Jackson) or infusing old standards with underlying messages of racial oppression (as did the brilliant Dr. Nina Simone), were the practitioners of a distinctly American art form.  Since there is a distinct difference between Gospel music and Secular jazz show-stoppers, we have divided this list of unparalleled women into two different categories: "Bible Belting Babes" and "Bad-Ass Boulevard Broads."

(Introduction by Sean, thumbnail bios by Phillip)

 

Enjoy our gallery of Gospel Divas and Secular Divas!  To advance from one to the next, simply click on the picture!  And if you can think of anyone who is missing from our pages, please let us know!


 

Bible Belting Babes

 

Albertina Walker CeCe Winans Cissy Houston Clara Ward The Clark Sisters
Albertina CeCe Cissy Clara The Clark Sisters

 

Dorothy Norwood Kim Burrell LaShun Pace Mahalia Jackson Mary Mary
Dorothy Kim LaShun Mahalia Mary Mary

 

Dr. Mattie Moss Clark Shirley Ceasar Tramaine Hawkins Vickie Winans Yolanda Adams
Mattie Shirley Tramaine Vickie Yolanda

 

Bad-Ass Boulevard Broads

 

Bessie Smith Billie Holiday Carmen McRae Dinah Washington Eartha Kitt
Bessie Billie Carmen Dinah Eartha

 

Ella Fitzgerald Etta James Fontella Bass Josephine Baker Lena Horne
Ella Etta Fontella Josephine Lena

 

Nina Simone Ruth Brown Sarah Vaughan Shirley Horn Tammi Terrell
Nina Ruth Sarah Shirley Tammi

 

A tremendous THANK YOU! to the people who contributed to these pages - Phillip, Sean and Bruce!

 

All picture captions used in this and every other picture gallery of this web site are made up and are used for satirical effect only. Any similarity of these captions to actual statements made by the public figures represented in the pictures, living or dead, is coincidental. Depictions of these public figures are for satirical and humor value only and are not intended to slander or insult.
 

  
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