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 ...

Activist and singer Odetta has died. She was 77 years old. When you talk to some of the most famous singers in America, they'll tell you she inspired the way they sing. In fact, Bob Dylan once said ...

WASHINGTON, Dec 3 (Reuters) - Odetta, the deep-voiced folk singer whose ballads and songs became for many a sound track to the American civil rights movement, has died aged 77, the New York Times ...

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 to perform ...

Bad news comes from the world of music this morning. Actually, it's bad news for the world, period. Folk singer Odetta Holmes has died at the age of 77. I had the chance to interview Odetta for a ...

NEW YORK — Odetta, the folk singer with the powerful voice who moved audiences and influenced fellow musicians for a half-century, has died. She was 77. Odetta died Tuesday night, said her manager, ...

Before there was Bob Dylan, the folk revival icon, there was Odetta. Before there was Janis Joplin, the wailing blues singer, there was Odetta. The woman whom Martin Luther King Jr. called the “Queen ...

Odetta, 77, a forceful singer during the folk music revival and civil rights struggle of the 1950s and 1960s and a self-described "musical historian" who championed the downtrodden by reviving slave, ...

-- an American folk music legend. Though sad, it was amazing to read about her life path, now that I'm old enough to understand it. She drove the folk music boom, inspiring Dylan, Baez and a ...

The career of Odetta, the powerhouse folk singer and icon of the civil rights movement in America who died Tuesday at age 77, mirrors the civil rights struggle in this country. It is ironic that her ...

And the legendary blues, folk and gospel singer Odetta has died at the age of seventy-seven. The New York Times described her as the voice of the civil rights movement. In 1963, Odetta performed the ...