Award-winning singer Jessie Smith didn’t choose soul music; soul music chose her. As a little girl, she had an epiphany during a church performance. Family lore has it, during the show, she bolted up and turned to her mother and said, “The music makes me wanna stand up, and get down.”


https://selfdiscoverymedia.com/2017/02/06/lm-17-08-swampy-soul-music-from-jessie-smith/