In 1937, Odetta Felious Holmes moved from Birmingham, Alabama, to Los Angeles. Only six, she was already bigger than the other kids when she arrived in East Hollywood with her mother, Flora, and her ...

Odetta, the classically trained folk, blues and gospel singer who used her powerfully rich and dusky voice to champion African-American music and civil rights issues for more than half a century ...

“If I had to pick one person responsible for the establishment of the Newport Folk Festival in 1959,” said the festival founder George Weing, “it would be Odetta.” After hearing her album Odetta Sings ...

Odetta, the folk singer with the powerful voice who moved audiences and influenced fellow musicians for a half-century, has died. She was 77. By The Associated Press NEW YORK — Odetta, the folk singer ...

We all know the story of Bob Dylan going electric at the 1965 Newport Folk Festival: the boos, the cheers, Pete Seeger overheard backstage wishing that he had an axe to chop through the microphone ...

Odetta: Live at 75 with 'Let It Shine' Legendary blues and folk singer Odetta is marking her 75th birthday with a live performance CD called Gonna Let It Shine: A Concert for the Holidays. She tells ...

ON the same day, on the same steps where Martin Luther King Jr. would deliver his "I Have a Dream" speech in 1963, Odetta—only 33 but already a folk-music force—sang "I'm on My Way." And she was. The ...

Influential folk singer and activist Odetta passed away this Tuesday at age 77 due to complications from heart disease and kidney failure, according to a statement released by her manager Doug Yeager.

Listen to more of Steve Inskeep's interview with Odetta. Folk-music legend Odetta died Tuesday at the age of 77. In this 2005 interview, she discusses her long and diverse career. Odetta Holmes ...

In 1959, Harry Belafonte produced and starred in a live prime-time special that he envisioned as a musical portrait of black America. He had the box-office clout to call the shots, which included an ...

Odetta, the singer whose resonant voice wove together the strongest songs of American folk music and the civil rights movement, died on Tuesday in Manhattan. She was 77. The cause was heart disease, ...

Odetta, who died on December 2 aged 77, was one of the most influential singers to emerge during the renaissance of American folk music in the 1950s. 03 December 2008 • 1:56pm Odetta gave life to the ...