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The Best Rapper Alive, Every Year Since 1979 "She was f**king badass. That's all there is to it. She was amazing as a performer. I've only seen one white male lead singer command the stage in a similar way that Tina Bell did." Half a decade before Nirvana recorded their first album, a 26-year-old Black woman named Tina Bell broke the first ground in the early history of grunge. Born in Seattle in 1957, Bell first started singing at age 10 at the city's Mt. Zion Baptist Church. But she was also deeply connected to the city's underground punk scene. And in 1983, she formed a band called Bam Bam with a French tutor she'd hired to help perfect the lyrics of "C’est Bon Si" for a local theater production. Within a year, the band was a staple of the city's club scene, pairing her powerful vocals with elements of punk, hard rock, and heavy distortion. And by the late 1980s, that unique combination would be recognized as the novel Seattle grunge sound...