Odetta - Cotton FieldsA generation of voices are dying. A generation of voices of substance, voices that told stories are dying. People get older and transition. It's a fact of life.However, losing Miriam Makeba and now losing Odetta is a blow to my soul of those who represented an era that my parents were subject to called segregation. That segregation evolved into integration but still there ...
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Heaven must be a beautiful place today. We here on Earth have lost the legendary folk singer Odetta, a woman whose music made her a central figure of and one of the most cherished of voices for folk music and, more importantly, the civil rights movement in America of the 1960's. More than [...]
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MUSIC NEWS - Sad news from NYC, Odetta , the American folk singer with a deep voice that tied together the powerful songs of American folk music and the civil rights movement, died on Tuesday (12/2/08) at Lenox Hill Hospital in Manhattan. She was 77. The cause was heart disease, said her manager, Doug Yeager. Three weeks ago she was admitted to the hospital with kidney failure, he said. ...
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