Civil rights-era singer Odetta dead at 77
Civil rights movement-era singer Odetta died of heart disease Tuesday in New York, her manager said. She was 77.Doug Yeager told The New York Times Odetta had been hoping to sing at the presidential inauguration of Barack Obama next month.Odetta, who was born Odetta Holmes, got her start singing in coffeehouses and wound up at Carnegie Hall. She also sang O Freedom at the 1963 civil rights march on Washington.She grew up listening to blues, jazz and folk music, and earned a music degree from Los more...
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