Who is Odetta?

The folk singer Odetta was born in Alabama 31 December 1930. When she was a child, she and her mother moved to Los Angeles, California. From the age of 13 she had undergone opera training because her mother hoped to follow in the footsteps of the famous opera singer Marian Anderson. In 1944 Odetta had his first performance in the music theater production Finian's Rainbow , with which she continued for some time. Only in the early fifties, however, Odetta began to sing and write music that many still know her for today, blues and folk.

In 1953, Odetta moved from San Francisco to New York to devote herself to her career in folk music. Over the next decade, she performed in several clubs that were influential at the time, including Blue Angel in New York, and Hungry I and Tin Angel in San Francisco. In 1954 she released her first album with the other artist Larry Mohr for Fantasy Records. Her music from Tje's time period was later welcomed as a mixture of traditionalAfrican spiritual, folk and blues whose similar ones have never been seen before. In addition, it was the music of this period of Odetty's career that caused many modern pop artists to demand it as an influence, including Bob Dylan and Janis Joplin.

The next decade was turbulent for America, with the emerging civil rights movement brought changes in American society and culture. Odett's career prospered and released several albums, including Odetta sings ballads and blues in 1956 and at the Horn Gate in 1957. She stared at Odetta, which called her "African Africal Awither Adsen the This Days of the day. She continued and branched and issued not only albums, but also in feafilms and continuation with pride in her involvement in the civil law.

would seem to many of herFans that from 1977 to 1997 Odetta disappeared from the scene and released only two records in this 20 -year range. In 1998, after her break from the world of entertainment, Odetta began to view and release new albums at the same rate she had previously in her career. During this time, she was honored by many awards, including the National Medal of Arts provided by the National Art Foundation in 1999 and Award Living Legend Award Library Congress in 2006.

In 2008 Odetta began what was supposed to be her last tour. She had several prestigious concerts throughout the year, including the main speaker for Martin Luther King's memory in San Diego. Her latest official performance was October 25, 2008 at Hugh's Room in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. That was in November 2008, when Odetta began to treat heart disease at New York's Lenox Hill Hospital. On 2 December 2008 Odetta Holmes died and ended her fruitful and influential music career.