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Etta James has brought the blues to life for generations.
Etta, one of the great forces in American Music is a two-time Grammy award winner, NARAS Lifetime Achievement and W.C. Handy Blues Foundation honoree, with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
Etta is a recognized master in the field of blues, R&B, jazz, and pop, crossing genres time and again, proving her notion that, "If I can feel it, I can sing it."
Etta's history began in the early Fifties when Johnny Otis first discovered the Los Angeles-born singer while still a teenager. It was the bandleader and talent scout that produced her first hit the saucy, Dance With Me Henry, which immediately topped R&B charts nationwide.
Etta's tenure with Chess Records began in 1960 and continued for sixteen incredible years with a string of landmark hits including her signature version of At Last, All I Could Do Was Cry, My Dearest Darling, Trust In Me, Something's Got A Hold On Me, Tell Mama, Fool That I Am, and Don't Cry Baby.
Together they comprised a run of charting records that ranked Etta third, just behind Aretha Franklin and Dionne Warwick, as the most prolific female R&B vocalist of her era.
Etta continued to make definitive blues, soul and R&B music over the next four decades, including her acclaimed 2003 release, Let's Roll, which garnered Etta a reputation as a world class live performer in process.
Etta's criterion for selecting songs is simple, "I sing what I fell" she asserts. "That's where it begins and ends for me, songs that touched me the deepest."