Also known as Charon Shemekia Copeland
American electric blues singer
Tags
Shemekia Copeland (b Harlem, New York City, 10 April 1979) is an American blues singer. The daughter of blues guitarist and singer Johnny Copeland, she began to pursue a singing career in earnest at age 16, when her father's health began to decline; he took Shemekia on tour as his opening act, which helped establish her name on the blues circuit. She landed a record deal with Alligator, which issued her debut album "Turn the Heat Up!" in 1998. The record was met with enthusiastic reviews <a hr
5 total works indexed
· 2018 · cited 4,219x
· 2013 · cited 3,934x
· 1998 · cited 2,563x
· 2017 · cited 2,337x
via Crossref · CC0
via Wikidata · CC0
via Wikidata sitelinks · CC0
Discovered by embedding cosine similarity (sentence-transformers MiniLM, 384-dim).