Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. “A lot of people think the blues is depressing, but that’s not the blues I’m singing. When I’m singing blues, I’m singing life,” ...

Let's continue our archive series R&B, rockabilly and early rock 'n' roll with rhythm and blues singer Etta James. She got her start at the age of 15 when she was discovered by Johnny Otis, who we ...

Amy Winehouse singing Etta James is a sight that any fan would love to see — and it turns out, Kelly Clarkson has some bragging rights in that department. The “Kelly Clarkson Show” host revealed in ...

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The legend of Etta James was made flesh on the Paramount Theatre stage Thursday night. Each of her dozen songs was a chapter in the story of the blues. From a hard-traveling, 15-year- old delinquent ...

Etta James, the “fantastic, fabulous, dynamite Lady of the Blues,” as Chuck Berry once introduced her, passed away Friday in her native Los Angeles, of complications from leukemia. She was 73. America ...

Whether she’s nailing the impossibly high notes in a Mariah Carey song or singing “Part of Your World” as Ariel in The Little Mermaid, it seems there’s no song Halle Bailey can’t absolutely crush. In ...