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 ...

NORTH ADAMS — Gina Coleman vividly remembers when she met her idol, Odetta Holmes, the renowned folk singer and civil rights advocate who took the genre by storm during the 1960s and 70s. She ...

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Seeing folk/blues legend and civil rights activist Odetta on national television Wednesday, singing the patriotic classic, "America" put everything into perspective. We are all Americans and country, ...

Rosa Parks was her No. 1 fan, and Martin Luther King Jr. called her the queen of American folk music. Odetta's stage presence was regal enough: planted onstage like an oak tree no one would dare cut ...

I can’t think of a singer currently alive I’d rather hear perform an homage to Odetta than Gina Coleman, backed by her band Misty Blues, playing at the hallowed Caffe Lena where I last saw Odetta in ...

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NEW YORK - Odetta's monumental voice rang out in August 1963 when she sang "I'm on My Way" at the historic March on Washington, where Martin Luther King gave his "I Have a Dream" speech.She had hoped ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Odetta, the deep-voiced folk singer whose ballads and songs became for many a soundtrack to the American civil rights movement, has died at age 77, her manager said on Wednesday ...