Bessie Smith av Jackie Kay

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<p><b>A BBC RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEK<br><br></b><font><b>Bessie Smith: singer, icon, pioneer.</b></font><br><br><b>Scotland''s National Poet Jackie Kay brings to life the tempestuous story of the greatest blues singer who ever lived.</b><br><br>''A gem of a book . . . beautiful.'' <b>BERNARDINE EVARISTO</b><br>''A wonderful writer on a magnificent singer.'' <b>ROBERT WYATT<br></b>''Kay¿s book is the amplifier that Smith¿s voice deserves.'' <b><i>SUNDAY TIMES</i></b><br>''The most vivid evocation of Bessie Smith I have ever read.'' <b>IAN CARR, <i>BBC MUSIC</i></b><br><br>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 pa