The first woman to have her voice recorded by the phonograph was no doubt some lady fascinated by Thomas Edison's original tin-foil invention. The first woman to achieve widespread acclaim as a professional recording star, however, was unquestionably Ada Jones. There is some proof that hers was one of the first women's voices successfully recorded for early commercial cylinders, but that is an incident rather unrelated to her great popularity later as the world’s "First Lady" of the phonograph