History

Blues is a vocal and instrumental musical genre, based on the use of a repetitive pattern, which usually follows a twelve-bar structure.

Native to African American slaves in the United States, it developed through spirituals, prayer songs, work songs, and field shouts.

The blues influenced American and Western popular music in general, becoming part of musical genres such as ragtime, jazz, bluegrass, rhythm and blues, rock and roll, heavy metal, hip-hop, country music and pop songs.