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Etta James
Topic Started: Jan 20 2012, 06:40 PM (99 Views)
Mobson
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Just over an hour ago, the news media announced that this lovely, feisty American singer, Etta James, who's style spanned a variety of music genres, including blues, rhythm and soul has died after suffering complications from leukaemia....she has died five days before her 74th birthday.

I Just Want to Make Love to You; If I Can't Have You and her jazz-inflected rendition of indelibly her signature hit, "At Last" are my favourites....

Beyoncé was invited to sing At Last at Barack Obama's presidential inauguration in January 2009. James publicly criticised her, then later offered an apology, suggesting that she was upset not to have been invited to sing herself. She added that she would have sung the song better.

Rage to Survive, James's autobiography, was published in 1995 and proved as blistering as her singing.

She is survived by her husband and her sons, Donto and Sametto.

• Etta James Singer - Jamesetta Hawkins: born Los Angeles 25th January 1938; died 20th January 2012 <rose>

I prefer the American links for details of her life...

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/01/20/etta-james-dead-legendary_n_1219083.html

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/21/arts/music/etta-james-singer-dies-at-73.html


Edited by Mobson, Jan 20 2012, 06:54 PM.
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becky sharp
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In her obituary on the BBC website it says that Johnny Otis auditioned her and a couple of schoolfriends for a group when she was 'bumming around being a delinquent' ..I read the other day that he died this week, on the 17th of January, aged 90.

Reading her obituary she has had a rough life in many ways dealing with drug and weight problems along the way.

At Last is a beautiful song and, for me, her version can't be bettered

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Johnny Otis R.I.P. <rose>

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TEeeGMpM_Nk

Etta twinklestar <rose>
Edited by rumbaba, Jan 20 2012, 10:19 PM.
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