Etta James
USA
Born: 25 January 1938
Died: 20 January 2012
Years Active: 50, 60, 70, 80, 90, 2000
Styles: Early R&B, R&B/Soul, Soul-Blues, Electric Blues, Urban Blues, Soul
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Few R&B singers have endured tragic travails on the monumental level that Etta James has and remain on earth to talk about it. The lady's no shrinking violet; her autobiography, Rage to Survive, describes her past (including numerous drug addictions) in sordid detail. But her personal problems have seldom affected her singing. James has hung in there from the age of R&B and doo wop in the mid-'50s through soul's late-'60s heyday and right up into the '90s and 2000s (where her 1994 disc Mystery Lady paid loving jazz-based tribute to one of her i...
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