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By Reverend Keith A. Gordon, About.com Guide to Blues

Etta James - Matriarch of the Blues

Friday July 14, 2006
In 1954 Jamesette Hawkins took the name Etta James and became a teen singing sensation. She outgrew her teens but never outgrew the sensation. A pure Blues singer, a jazz smoothie, a soulful ripper, Etta can sing it all.

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