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Aretha Franklin
Aretha Franklin
American singer
Mavis Staples
American singer
Pat Boone
Pat Boone
American singer and television personality
Sam Cooke
Sam Cooke
American singer
Mahalia Jackson
Mahalia Jackson
American singer
Nina Simone
Nina Simone
American singer
Wanda Jackson
Wanda Jackson
American singer
Anita Baker, c. 1988.
Anita Baker
American singer
Rawls, Lou
Lou Rawls
American singer
Dorsey, c. 1929
Thomas Andrew Dorsey
American musician
Blind Willie Johnson
American musician
Tennessee Ernie Ford
American country music singer
Sister Rosetta Tharpe
Sister Rosetta Tharpe
American singer and musician

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America jazz singer Billie Holiday, 1943. (gelatin silver print)
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Young girl wearing a demin jacket playing the trumpet (child, musical instruments, Asian ethnicity)
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