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Composed over 70 musical works, known as a writer, mystic, and visionary. Wrote Ordo Virtutum.
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Her stage work, 'La liberazione di Ruggiero', is considered to be the first opera by a woman.
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A number of her works were originally published under her husband, Felix's, name.
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She was an African-American jazz singer sometimes referred to as the First Lady of Song and Queen of Jazz
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She was an American singer and drummer who was part of the duo the Carpenters alongside her brother Richard.
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Despite her brilliance as a performer and composer, she was paid less than her male counterparts for nearly a decade. Only after the triumphant premiere of her Nonet for wind and strings - in which the violinist Joseph Joachim took part -did she demand and receive equal pay.
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She was nicknamed "Lady Day" by her friend and music partner Lester Young.
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Wrote “Coat of Many Colors”, which was a straight-ahead account of a humiliating experience she had suffered at school when classmates made fun of her patchwork, homemade coat.
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Born Alicia Augello Cook and is a classically-trained pianist and singer/songwriter.
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She composed "March of the Women" that became the anthem of the suffragettes, and she served two months in Holloway Prison for breaking a window.
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Born Anna Mae Bullock on November 26, 1939, she is an internationally recognized singer, songwriter, and actress.
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America's first successful woman composer.
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She is one of the world's best-selling music artists, with sales of over 120 million records. Famous for the song, 'Hello', which became the first song in the US to sell over one million digital copies within a week of its release.
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Born Melissa Viviane Jefferson and is an American singer, rapper, songwriter, and flutist.
