Which singer paid for a headstone for blues singer Bessie Smith's grave?

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Which singer paid for a headstone for blues singer Bessie Smith's grave?

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Last updated Jul 01 2024.
Originally posted Nov 22 2023 6:51 AM.

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When Bessie Smith died in 1937 her family couldn't afford a headstone. Somehow, this highly influential singer's grave remained unmarked until 1970 when Janis Joplin paid for one to be erected. John Hamman wrote the extremely fitting epitaph "The Greatest Blues Singer in the World Will Never Stop Singing."

Joplin, along with nurse Juanita Green (per The New York Times), paid for the gravestone,

https://www.grunge.com/746463/why-janis-joplin-bought-a-headstone-for-bessie-smith/

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Nov 22 2023, 7:51 AM

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Janis Joplin

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bessie_Smith

Nov 22 2023, 7:49 AM

Which singer paid for a headstone for blues singer Bessie Smith's grave?

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