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3 nov 2008 · NEW YORK — Odetta, the singer whose deep voice wove together the strongest songs of American folk music and the civil rights movement, has died.She was 77. The cause of death, on Tuesday in New ...
Born on New Year’s Eve in 1930 in Birmingham, Alabama, Odetta Holmes grew up to become a paradoxical phenomenon: ... Jr. consecrating her as “The Queen of American Folk Music.”
30 dic 2005 · Folk-music legend Odetta was a force in the 1960s push for social justice. Her passion inspired fellow musicians and activists such as Joan Baez, Bob Dylan and Harry Belafonte. Odetta died Dec. 2 ...
Odetta Follow Artist + A towering figure of folk revival and Civil Rights Movement, the African-American singer-songwriter provided voice for the voiceless.
23 ott 2020 · ARTS & SOUL. Forgotten protest icon Odetta Holmes lives on in modern Black Americana. by Chelsea Spear October 23, 2020February 10, 2021. In a 2020 Rolling Stone interview, musicologist and classically trained vocalist Rhiannon Giddens observed that Black artists are being written out of folk and country music history, adding that "folk ...
Odetta was a civil rights activist. [6] Although she grew up in the city, she described black folk music and spirituals as "liberation songs" and used this music to "do my teaching and preaching, my propagandizing." Both Odetta and Bob Dylan sang at the 1963 Civil Rights March in Washington DC. When this album was recorded, Bob Dylan was only ...
9 lug 2023 · Odetta (December 31, 1930 - December 2, 2008) was an African-American singer whose repertoire consists largely of American folk music, blues, and spirituals. She was born Odetta Holmes in Birmingham, Alabama, grew up in Los Angeles, California, and studied music at Los Angeles City College. H… read more
