The iconic voices of female jazz & blues legends Billie Holiday, Phyllis Hyman, Nancy Wilson and Bessie Smith were honored at Aretha's Jazz Café in Detroit for Black History Month

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The iconic voices of female jazz & blues legends Billie Holiday, Phyllis Hyman, Nancy Wilson and Bessie Smith were honored at Aretha's Jazz Café... Voices honoring female jazz and blues legends ...

Thornetta Davis as Bessie Smith (from left), Sky Covington as Billie Holiday, Veronique Musique as Nancy Wilson, Lady Vonne as Phyllis Hyman and Lucretia Sain as Lottie "The Body" Tatum-Graves-Claiborne, along with host and comedian Mike Bonner ...