During the career of Ma Rainey there was another woman who was having a good time in her music life. Her name is Bessie Smith, she had very humble beginning. Source 4 says “In childhood she danced on street corners for coins to help her family”. That was her beginning as an artist, even though she did did not have something similar to a big debut in a important place, she started from the bottom and continued going to the top. Bessie Smith was influenced by Ma Rainey a very important woman of the Blues style. Bessie Smith was a role model for the people. According to Source 4 says “‘Bessie was a Queen’ said Ruby Walker her niece by marriage. ‘I mean the people looked up to her and worshipped her like she was a Queen… she was that kind of woman,
