At Last!

Description

Listening to At Last!, who could guess where Etta James came from? It was her first solo album, after some successes in a group. A bouquet of love songs in which the young woman sang both the blossoming and the thorns and the fading. With strings and a jazzy atmosphere, the music is a red carpet for the exceptional voice of this young singer. Capable of innocence and freshness as well as fiery roars. Like all great American black female singers, Etta James puts her life into her voice, her childhood without a family, her early addiction to drugs, the salvation through music that she began in church. At 22, Etta James sings as if she has lived it all and with hope, still. The song At Last! has become a classic, accompanying Etta James throughout her life and even beyond: it was the one sung at her funeral in 2012.