Similarities Between Bessie Smith And Muddy Waters

Two Famous Blues Singers Although people have been listening to more hip-hop music nowadays, there are two amazing singers that people have been listening to since they became famous. They are Bessie Smith and Muddy Waters. Although Bessie Smith and Muddy Waters belong to a different generation, both had successful careers as Blues singers. There are similarities and differences between Bessie Smith and Muddy Waters in regard to early life, musical training and successful career, There are a couple similarities in their life stories. For example, their early lives are similar. According to Bio.com “Bessie Smith was born in Chattanooga, Tennessee 1894. Bessie Smith start to sing the first song at street with one of her young brother holding her guitar. Smith began performing as a dancer in the Moses Stokes minstrel show, and soon thereafter in the Rabbit Foot Minstrels” (biography). Likewise, as a child Muddy Waters childhood was very poor until he became a famous musician. Their parents passed away when Muddy was child. Consequently,

For example, they had very different musical influence and training. Muddy’s father was a blues guitar player that influenced his son to like music and play instruments. According to Bio.com "Waters began to play the harmonica around the age of 5, and became quite good" (biography). In contrast, Smith wasn’t influenced by their parents. According to Bio.com “her father was a Baptist minister and her mother didn’t encourage her to be a singer. Smith began performing in the Rabbit Foot Minstrels in 1912, of which blues vocalist gave her some early training.” On the other hand, Waters learned by himself how to play electric guitar by listening to recordings of Mississippi blues legends. Waters spend a lot of his hours working as a sharecropper at a cotton plantation. In the end, they have very big different ways for influenced