Women in Music Posters “Ba...-Bl...-”
for social studies and music education classrooms, home schoolers, and inspirational decor.

Joan Baez
b. 1-9-1941; Staten Isl, NY

Folk singer Joan Chandos Baez is known for her songs that deal with social issues and her activism in civil and human rights, nonviolence, and environmentalism.

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Pearl Bailey
b. 3-29-1918; Southampton County, Virginia
d. 8-17-1990; Philadelphia

Singer and actress Pearl Bailey began her career in vaudeville, making her Broadway debut in the musical St. Louis Woman in 1946. She played “Frankie” in the film version of Carmen Jones, “Maria” in the film version of Porgy and Bess, and “Aunt Hagar” in the movie St. Louis Blues. Bailey won a Tony Award for the title role in the all-black production of Hello, Dolly! in 1968. Pearl Bailey was the sister of tap dancer Bill Bailey.

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Josephine Baker
b. 6-4-1906; Kansas City, MO
d. 4-12-1974; Paris, France

Josephine Baker made her way to New York, and eventually on to Paris in 1925, where she became the toast of Europe.

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Irina Mikhailovna Baronova
b. 3-13-1919; St. Petersburg, Russia
d. 6-28-2008; Byron Bay, Australia

Irina Baronova was known as one of the “Baby Ballerinas” (along with Toumanova and Riabouchinska) of the 1930s. She and her husband Cecil Tennant are the parents of actress Victoria Tennant.

Cecilia Bartoli
b. 6-4-1966; Rome, Italy

Cecilia Bartoli is one of the most popular opera singers today.

Kathleen Battle
b. 8-13-1948; Portsmouth, OH

Soprano Kathleen Battle sang Mozart's Coronation Mass for Pope John Paul II in 1985, and the Lord's Prayer for Pope Benedict XVI's White House visit in April of 2008.

Amy Marcy Cheney Beach
b. 9-5-1867; Henniker, NH
d. 12-27-1944; Cincinnati, OH

Amy Marcy Cheney Beach was a pianist and first successful American female composer of large-scale art music.

She was a child prodigy, and primarly self taught, who stopped performing due to the wishes of her physician husband. Most of her compositions and performances were under the name Mrs. H.H.A. Beach.

She spent her later years being supportive of young musicians.

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Mary Jane Blige
b. 1-11-1971; The Bronx, NY

Mary j. Blige, singer, record producer, and actress, has won nine Grammy Awards, received the World Music Legends Award for hip hop and soul, selling over 48 million records worldwide (2008).

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