Janelle James
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Etta James (1938-2012) was a U.S. blues, soul, R&B, rock & roll, and jazz singer and songwriter. She is the winner of four Grammies, seventeen Blues Music Awards, and was inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame (in 1993), the Blues Hall of Fame (in 2001), and the Grammy Hall of Fame (in both 1999 and 2008). James was born Jamesetta Hawkins in Los Angeles, California, on 25th January 1938, to an unmarried fourteen-year-old mother, Dorothy Hawkins.
Influenced by: Muddy Waters, Billie Holiday, Ray Charles
- Label:
- Chess Records
- Active:
- 1954-2012
- Scene:
- Los Angeles / Chicago blues-soul
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