for the love of female fronted bands!

madamethursday:

[Image: Five multicolor hand drawn illustration of musical legends: Bessie Smith, Ella Fitzgerald, Billie Holiday, Nina Simone and Etta James as they sing.]

kerosenekerosene:

Five of my favorite ladies - Bessie Smith, Ella Fitzgerald, Billie Holiday, Nina Simone, and Etta James. Graphite drawings over watercolor, digitally composited with a little use of the eraser tool in Photoshop. Other than those little circles, unedited.

Prints are available of all but Bessie at www.society6.com/kerosene. Get ‘em while you can! After Bessie is posted, I’ll leave the singles up for a week, before making the set of five together the only option.

Bessie Smith Ella Fitzgerald Billie Holiday Nina Simone Etta James
missavagardner: And as I started reaching deeper I realized that most of the blues of that day was done by men. Women just didn’t have the nerve. Jamesetta Hawkins aka Etta James (January 25, 1938 – January 20, 2012) R.I.P to the Queen of Soul

missavagardner:

And as I started reaching deeper I realized that most of the blues of that day was done by men. Women just didn’t have the nerve.
Jamesetta Hawkins aka Etta James (January 25, 1938 – January 20, 2012)

R.I.P to the Queen of Soul

Etta James R.I.P.