Etta James may be, which is strong, diverse and emotionally direct sound fueling raunchiest blues, love songs and subtle, the most indelible signature hit, "and finally" died Friday morning in Riverside, and 73 were California.
He said his manager, lobby, de Leon, and the reason was complications of leukemia. Was treated Ms. James, who died in Riverside Community Hospital, for some time by a number of conditions, including leukemia and dementia. Also lived in Riverside.
Ms. James was not easy to pigeonhole. Often referred to as the rhythm and blues singer, and this is how he made his name in the 1950s with albums such as "Good Daddy" rockin ". Are all of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and the Blues Hall of Fame.
He was also comfortable and convincing standards and pop singing, as it did in 1961 with the "last in," which was written in 1941 and originally recorded for the Glenn Miller Orchestra. And four Grammy awards (including the extent of life, achieving the honor in 2003) was one of the best music for the performance of vocal jazz, which won in 1995 with the album "Mystery Lady: Songs of Billie Holiday"
Regardless of how they rank, impressed you. Expressing a common feeling, wrote John Pareles of The New York Times in 1990 that there was "one of the great voices of American popular music, with a wide range, and a variety of tones and reserves are immense."
The achievements of all, and Mrs. James race up and down, and partly due to a change in public taste, but largely because of problems with drugs. It had begun the development of heroin addiction in the 1960s, after he beat in 1970, using cocaine. Explicitly describe the conflict with the addiction and many trips to rehabilitation in his autobiography, "anger in order to survive," written with David Ritz (1995).
Etta James was born Jamesetta Hawkins in Los Angeles on January 25, 1938. His mother, Dorothy Hawkins (14) at the time his father had disappeared, and Mrs. James did not know for sure who it was, but I remembered his mother telling him that he was the team's famous Rudolph Wanderone of players, known as fats and Minnesota. Have been raised by adoptive parents and they moved to San Francisco with his mother when he was 12 years old.
She began singing in the St. Paul Baptist Church in Los Angeles in 5, and returned to secular music as a teenager, and form a vocal group with two of his friends. She was 15 when he made his first album, "Roll with Me Henry" create their own lyrics to the song by Hank Ballard and the Midnighters in the recent hit "Work with me Annie." Disc jockeys when he complained that some of the title is very suggestive, it was changed to "scattered", although the disc itself was not.
"The Wallflower" reached No. 2 on the graph of the blues, and rhythm in 1954. As often in those days with records by black artists, was recorded before the issuance of a moderate singer black and found a wider audience: The version of Gibbs Georgia, with the title and lyrics changed to "dance with me, Henry," was No. 1 in 1955 amounted to pop. (And the success was not all bad news for Ms. James. Royalties shared with Mr. Ballard composition and bandleader and talent scout Johnny Otis, who had arranged for the session recording. Mr. Otis died Tuesday.)
In 1960, Ms. James signed by Chess Records, the Chicago label that was home to Chuck Berry, and other celebrities of the music murky water is black. Soon there was a series of hits, including "All I can do to mourn," "confidence in the data" and "Finally", which established the first woman star of chess's most important.
And remained with Chess in the 1970s, appearing in the lists after a long absence in 1967 with "Tell Mama" cowardly and joy. In the late 70's and early 80 was an act of the opening of the Rolling Stones.
After decades of touring, recording for labels and different, and out of the public opinion, and found Ms. James in the press in 2009, after Beyonce Knowles recorded a version of "Finally" on the model of it. (Mrs. James Knowles played in the 2008 film "Cadillac Records", a fictional account of the rise and fall of Chess). It also Knowles "in the last" in President Obama's inaugural ball in Washington.
And Mrs. James when he was released for the film, and kind words for the representation of Ms. Knowles. However, in February 2009, referring specifically to the actions of Washington, said one of the audience: "I can not stand Beyonce," and threatened to "whip" for the young singer to do "and finally". He later said he was joking, but he added that it was called to sing like the same song for the new president.
Survivors include her husband of Mrs. James 42 years old, and Artis Mills, two sons, James and Sametto and burned, and four grandchildren.
Although his life had its share of problems until the end - has been locked her husband and children in the long battle for control of the property, which was resolved in favor of her husband just weeks before his death - Ms. James said that he wanted his music to override reflect instead of misery.
"A lot of people think that blues is sad," he told the Los Angeles Times in 1992, "but this is not the blues I'm singing, and people who can not afford to hear the blues when I'm singing the blues, and I sing to life., Which must be false information. "
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