Here is the story of perhaps the finest soul singer of the rock era--Etta James. . One of the great women of American music, equally at home singing blues and jazz, Etta regales us with tales of her chaotic childhood, the stars she has known, and her troubled trip to stardom in this mesmerizing autobiography.
Born in 1938 to a mother still in high school, Etta James began her career singing in church at the age of five. Ten years later she was performing with the Johnny Otis Show: she had her first hit record, "Roll With Me Henry," an answer to Hank Ballard's "Work With Me Annie," soon afterwards. Candid and revealing as only the reminiscences of a ...
Heart & Soul celebrates the nearly half-cent ury (1930-1975) of flamboyant and extravagant flowering in A frican-American culture that enriched the entire world. From the Jackson Five to the Four Tops, it was an era of audacio us showmen. '
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