From the NY Times : Odetta, the folk singer with the powerful voice who moved audiences and influenced fellow musicians for a half-century, has died. She was 77. Odetta died Tuesday of heart disease at Lenox Hill Hospital, said her manager of 12 years, Doug Yeager. She was admitted to the hospital with kidney failure about three weeks ago, he said. In spite of failing health that caused her to use a wheelchair, Odetta performed 60 concerts in the last two years, singing for 90 minutes at a time. [...]
odetta , the stately & luminous folk singer, died on tuesday, and though we weren't able to mark the sad occasion at the time, we would like to pay our humble respects now with a few songs and an excerpt from a memorial printed in the ny times . we count ourselves lucky indeed to have caught her playing at the hardly strictly bluegrass festival earlier this fall, and one of the songs below comes directly from that affecting performance. she still had it, right up until the end. odetta [...]
One of the greatest voices of the civil rights movement, Odetta, passed away on December 2nd. The singer-songwriter and human rights activist brought an inspiring force to folk music. Bob Dylan said “The first thing that turned me on to folk singing was Odetta.” It was her influential role that led Dr. Martin Luther King [...]
With sadness I'd like to bring attention to the passing of a great Folk/blues musician, Odetta. May she rest in peace and may God bless her soul. My condolences go out to her family and many fans. According to Odetta @Wikipedia ; Odetta Holmes, (December 31, 1930 – December 2, 2008), known as Odetta, was an African-American singer, actress, guitarist, songwriter, and a human rights activist, often referred to as "The Voice of the Civil Rights Movement". Her musical repertoire consists largely of American folk music, blues, jazz, and spirituals. An important figure in the American [...]
We are a couple of days late on this, but we wanted to report on the passing of music and civil rights legend Odetta , of heart disease at age 77. Dubbed "The Voice of Civil Rights Movement" and "The Queen Of American Folk Music" by Martin Luther King, Jr., she help to inspire a generation of aspiring singer/songwriters and helped to ignite the folk music boom of the early 1960s. Despite failing health in recent years, including being confined to a wheelchair, the strong willed singer Odetta continued to consistently perform and had hoped that her next high [...]
The images that flooded my head when I read that Odetta had died are black and white, of a single performer in a spotlight, with a pained expression and a powerfully affecting singing voice. It's a clip used in No Direction Home, the Martin Scorcese biopic of Bob Dylan: The New York Times obituary had a beautifully succinct lede, calling Odetta "The singer whose resonant voice wove together
Folk legend and "voice of the civil rights movement" Odetta died yesterday of heart disease. She was 77 years old. Odetta came to prominence in the 1950s, and was a major influence on future superstars like Bob Dylan , Harry Belafonte , Joan Baez and Janis Joplin . Odetta's influence on Dylan was such that he credited her as his inspiration to ditch rock in favor of folk music: "The first thing that turned me on to [...]
Folk music pioneer and civil rights activist, Odetta, died yesterday of heart disease at the age of 77. She influenced artists like Joan Baez and Bob Dylan, but considered herself a music historian and not a folk singer. Her bluesy songs of slavery, poverty, and hope were meant to educate and preach her personal gospel. You can read more here . Odetta - Water Boy
Odetta Holmes - ' Sometimes I Feel Like A Motherless Child ' (MP3) Odetta Holmes - ' Hit or Miss ' (MP3) Odetta Holmes - ' Livin' with the blues ' (MP3) Tavis Smiley speaks to Odetta in 2008
Thomas Eisner - Herbaceous 5 (2006) Odetta - Another Man Done Gone (mp3): With a last clap, Odetta sings deep forever of the struggle and the loss. Another done gone.
Odetta Dies At 77 Word cannot describe how incredibly saddened I am to hear of the great Odetta's passing. The legendary folk singer and voice of the Civil Rights Movement dies yesterday due to complications from Heart Disease. She was 77 yrs old. Odetta had hoped to perform at Barack Obama's Inauguration. Odetta inspired an entire generation of musician's including Bob Dylan and Bruce
(Odetta at the 1963 March on Washington) In the movie "Hairspray" when Pia Zadora said , "Hey cats, let's put on Odetta and iron our hair," I got the joke because like a majority of people my age, I knew who Odetta was but never owned any of her tracks or listened to her. A folk star in the 1950s, Bob Dylan as well as Harry Belafonte and Joan Baez claim Odetta as an influence. She's probably best known in the US for her performance at the March on Washington in 1963. Odetta was a [...]
Picture Taken from the Picture Archives of the Smithsonian Institute Odetta, 77; Sang the Soundtrack for the Civil Rights Movement By Martin Weil and Adam Bernstein Washington Post Staff Writers Wednesday, December 3, 2008; A08 Odetta, 77, the folk and blues singer whose renditions of civil rights anthems accompanied historic events and made history themselves, died last night in New York. Afflicted for years with heart and lung ailments, she died at Lenox Hill Hospital, which she had entered at the end of [...]
I don't often post here when celebrities die, but I was sad to hear about the recent death of Odetta due to heart disease. When I attended the legendary singer's performance at Mountain Stage several years ago, I didn't know much about her. Since then I've learned that Odetta was best known for her involvement in the Civil Rights Movement, and that she counted among her fans Bob Dylan, Janis Joplin, Joan Baez, Martin Luther King, Jr., Rosa Parks, and JFK. History aside, Odetta gave one of the most powerful and captivating live sets I've ever [...]
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Odetta, famed African-American folk singer, songwriter, actress, and activist, passed away in New York City at the age of 77 last night. Beloved by everyone from Maya Angelou to Bob Dylan to Martin Luther King, Jr. Born in Birmingham and raised in Los Angeles, she began her career in musicals before heading up to San Francisco and falling in with the folk crowd, mixing it up with Woody Guthrie and Pete Seeger. She was signed to Vanguard Records, which was home to darn-near everybody who was anybody in the folk scene at the time. It's important [...]
Legendary folk/blues singer Odetta passed away yesterday of heart disease, she was 77. Sad news. See below from the NY Times obituary . Odetta sang at coffeehouses and at Carnegie Hall, made highly influential recordings of blues and ballads, and became one of the most widely known folk-music artists of the 1950s and ’60s. She was a formative influence on dozens of artists, including Bob Dylan, Joan Baez and Janis Joplin. Her voice was an accompaniment to the black-and-white images of the freedom marchers who walked the roads of Alabama and Mississippi and the boulevards of [...]
MUSIC NEWS - Sad news from NYC, Odetta , the American folk singer with a deep voice that tied together the powerful songs of American folk music and the civil rights movement, died on Tuesday (12/2/08) at Lenox Hill Hospital in Manhattan. She was 77. The cause was heart disease, said her manager, Doug Yeager. Three weeks ago she was admitted to the hospital with kidney failure, he said. In spite of failing health that caused her to use a wheelchair, Odetta performed 60 concerts in the last two years, singing for 90 minutes at a time. Her singing ability [...]
Filed under: News , R.I.P. Spinner.com : Odetta, whose folk singing served as a clarion call to the American civil rights movement in the 1960s, died of heart failure in New York on Dec. 2, according to her manager. The 77-year-old, born as Odetta Holmes in Birmingham, Ala., had been... Read more
NEW YORK — Odetta, the folk singer with the powerful voice who moved audiences and influenced fellow musicians for a half-century, has died. She was 77. Odetta died Tuesday of heart disease at Lenox Hill Hospital, said her manager of 12 years, Doug Yeager. She was admitted to the hospital with kidney failure about three weeks ago, he said. In spite of failing health that caused her to use a wheelchair, Odetta performed 60 concerts in the last two years, singing for 90 minutes at a time. Her singing ability never diminished, Yeager said. [...]
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