Gertrude "Ma" Rainey (née Pridgett; April 26, 1886 – December 22, 1939) was an American blues singer and influential early-blues recording artist. Dubbed...

Ma Rainey's Black Bottom is a 2020 American drama film directed by George C. Wolfe and written by Ruben Santiago-Hudson, based on the 1982 play of the...

Ma Rainey's Black Bottom is a 1982 play – one of the ten-play Century Cycle by August Wilson – that chronicles the 20th-century African-American experience...

continuing to act until his death in 2020 from the illness. His final film, Ma Rainey's Black Bottom, was released posthumously the same year to critical acclaim...

song, first recorded by Ma Rainey in August 1924 in Chicago. It was released on Paramount Records on September 6, 1924. Rainey was accompanied on the recording...

12-bar blues song that became a standard in several genres. Gertrude "Ma" Rainey was the first to record it on October 16, 1924, at Paramount Records in...

Actress for playing a 1960s housemaid in The Help (2011) and Ma Rainey in the biopic Ma Rainey's Black Bottom (2020). She won the Academy Award for Best Supporting...

Look up -ma, Ma, ma, or ma- in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Ma, MA, or mA may refer to: Master of Arts, a degree award Marin Academy, a high school...

Roll Morton, who said he first heard blues music in New Orleans in 1902; Ma Rainey, who remembered first hearing the blues in the same year in Missouri;...

street corners. She began touring and performed in a group that included Ma Rainey, and then went out on her own. Her successful recording career with Columbia...

Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum and August Wilson's play Ma Rainey's Black Bottom. She won a Tony Award as a producer of the musical Thoroughly...

Toledo the piano player in the original production of August Wilson's Ma Rainey's Black Bottom. As a young man, Judd served in the United States Navy....

Nominations 2021: 'The Crown' Dominates TV, 'Minari' Scores for Film Alongside 'Ma Rainey'". IndieWire. Archived from the original on 5 February 2021. Retrieved...

(1990), both of which won Wilson the Pulitzer Prize for Drama, as well as Ma Rainey's Black Bottom (1984) and Joe Turner's Come and Gone (1988). In 2006, Wilson...

comedy crime drama series Fargo, and starred in the 2020 Netflix film Ma Rainey's Black Bottom. Turman was born in New York City. According to a DNA analysis...

award. She has since hosted The Mo'Nique Show (2009–2011), and starred as Ma Rainey in the HBO biopic Bessie (2015), earning a Primetime Emmy Award nomination...

blues was becoming popular. He gained fame accompanying blues belter Ma Rainey on tour and, billed as "Georgia Tom", joined with guitarist Tampa Red...

productions but gained fame later in life when she starred as Ma Rainey in Ma Rainey's Black Bottom, for which she earned a Tony Award nomination, and...

Moon, Pete Townshend Early influences Louis Armstrong Charlie Christian Ma Rainey Non-performers (Ahmet Ertegun Award) Gerry Goffin and Carole King Holland–Dozier–Holland...

deep south in the drama The Help (2011), and the title role in drama Ma Rainey's Black Bottom (2020). She was also BAFTA-nominated for her roles in the...

Michael Kenneth Williams as Smith's first husband Jack Gee, and Mo'Nique as Ma Rainey. The film premiered on May 16, 2015. By the following year Bessie was...

pianists or small jazz ensembles and were the first blues to be recorded. Ma Rainey, Bessie Smith, Ethel Waters, and the other singers in this genre were...

American sheriff Ma Rainey (1882–1939), American blues singer Matt Rainey, winner of the 2001 Pulitzer Prize for Feature Photography Paul J. Rainey (1877–1923)...

Moon, Pete Townshend Early influences Louis Armstrong Charlie Christian Ma Rainey Non-performers (Ahmet Ertegun Award) Gerry Goffin and Carole King Holland–Dozier–Holland...

Moon, Pete Townshend Early influences Louis Armstrong Charlie Christian Ma Rainey Non-performers (Ahmet Ertegun Award) Gerry Goffin and Carole King Holland–Dozier–Holland...

well as in the films Jean of the Joneses (2016), White Boy Rick (2018), Ma Rainey's Black Bottom (2020), Boogie (2021), and Beverly Hills Cop: Axel F (2024)...

Derby Film Awards nominations list: 'Mank' leads with 10, followed by 'Ma Rainey' and 'Minari' with 8, 'Nomadland,' 'Promising Young Woman,' 'Soul,' 'Tenet'...

extremely radical at the time. Ma Rainey was also the first person to introduce blues music into vaudeville. Rainey's protégé, Bessie Smith, was another...

dance. "Ma Rainey's Black Bottom", a 1920s blues song by Ma Rainey, makes obvious allusions to the dance but is not itself dance music. Ma Rainey's Black...

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