These five words was how men and women described her, and these words were pretty self explanatory. Often, there was comparison between her and how preachers were able to move their listeners with call-and-responses, which is what she was able to do with her audience members. Danny Barker, a renowned musician from New Orleans states there were similarities between preachers from the South, and Bessie singing on stage and how Bessie was able to move her audience members as preachers did theirs. What made her stand out was her ability to make her voice sound loud and clear without even using a microphone, and her ability to combine different music genres to the extent that she did, making her voice and sound unforgettable. As she did sign with Columbia Records in her early years of singing, just 10 months into signing with Columbia, she sold 2 million records.