Legendary Folk Singer Odetta Passed Away

Lovely Soulful Righteous Singer Odetta passed at the age of 77. You Gotta Love her, and she was raised in CALI ! Odetta became a force of the folk music revival in the 1950s. In the 1960s her renditions of spirituals and blues became part of the soundtrack of the civil rights movement .

READ MORE ON HER AND a very INSPIRING INTERVIEW HERE: NEW YORK TIMES

She gave us a strong experience of how it was like in the 50's as an African American, and the ideal that blacks were not worth anything. smh.

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