Two main types of music originated from african american musicians.
1)Gospel
2)Blues
THomas a dorsey was a black man who helped to initiate gospel into american culture.
Bessie smith was a black woman who helped to endorse blues into america.
also,:
Alberta Hunter (3) John Lee Hooker (1) Aretha Franklin (1) Josephine Baker @ B.B. King (1) Kathleen Battle (2) Berry Gordy (1) Leadbelly (1) Bessie Smith (2) Lena Horne @ Billie Holiday (2) Leontyne Price (3) Blind Lemon Jefferson (2) Louis Armstrong (3) Cab Calloway (4) Ma Rainey (2) Chuck Berry (3) Mahalia Jackson (2) Clara Smith (1) Mamie Smith (1) Count Basie (3) Marian Anderson (4) Dizzy Gillespie (2) Miles Davis (2) Duke Ellington (3) Muddy Waters (1) Edmond Dede (1) Nat King Cole (2) Elizabeth Taylor Greenfield (2) Otis Redding (1) Ella Fitzgerald (2) Pearl Bailey (4) Ethel Waters (3) Ray Charles (2) Fletcher Henderson (1) Robert Johnson (1) Florence Price (1) Robert Nathaniel Dett (1) Grace Bumbry (1) Sarah Vaughan (3) James Brown (3) Stevie Wonder (1) Jelly Roll Morton (1) Ulysses Simpson Kay (2) Jessye Norman (2) W.C. Handy (2) Jimi Hendrix (1) William Grant Still (1) John Coltrane (2) Wilson Pickett (3)
