MISS ETTA JAMES (vinyl)

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THE DIVA OF SOUL. REISSUE OF THE LEGENDARY FIRST ALBUM BY THE AMERICAN SOUL DIVA. Her career spans six decades. In 1960, she found success with her cover of At Last, written by Mack Gordon and Harry Warren. Etta James won six Grammy Awards and seventeen Blues Music Awards. When the magazine published the list of the "100 Greatest Singers of All Time" in 2008, by the American music magazine Rolling Stone, Etta James appears at number 22. She is also the third woman in the ranking behind Aretha Franklin and Tina Turner, who is first and at number 17. Etta James is now considered a pioneer of rock 'n' roll and contemporary pop music. Her hits At Last, Tell Mama, I'd Rather Be Blind and Something's Got A Hold Me have become classics, and her husky voice, which she established as early as the 1950s, paved the way for Tina Turner, Janis Joplin, Mavis Staples, Adele, Amy, and more recently Winehouse, Duffy. “The greatest female voice in rhythm'n'blues” --- Jerry Wexler ---