WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Odetta, the deep-voiced folk singer whose ballads and songs became for many a soundtrack to the American civil rights movement, has died at age 77, her manager said on Wednesday ...

Here's the thing I remember most about Odetta: Her calm, queenly sense of self and admirable grace under pressure. The blues and folk singer, who died Tuesday at age 77, exuded those qualities during ...

Prominent civil rights folk singer Odetta died at 77 from heart disease at New York's Lenox Hill Hospital Tuesday. The NewsHour remembers the Grammy-nominated artist and her influence on fellow ...

On December 3rd, Doug Yeager who was in town to share his film, Free to Rock: How Rock and Roll Brought Down the Wall, came into WVXU's studio to talk about his friend, Odetta. He was her manager from ...

NEW YORK — 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 Jr. gave his “I Have a Dream” speech. She had ...

Michael Koster Odetta, an old friend of Southwest Roots Music whose voice was an important soundtrack to the Civil Rights Movement, passed away on Dec. 2 from heart disease. She was 77. One of her ...

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 ...

Odetta, 77, the folk and blues singer whose renditions of civil rights anthems accompanied historic events and made history themselves, died last night in New York. Afflicted for years with heart and ...

"She used her music as a voice for social equality — she brought her life and her art together and changed the world" By Ashley Lee Odetta Alvin Ailey H 2014 A civil rights icon is now dancing onstage ...

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 at age 77, her manager said on ...

In 1965, she recorded an album of Bob Dylan covers titled Odetta Sings Dylan. “The first thing that turned me on to folk singing was Odetta,” Bob Dylan once said. “Right then and there, I went out and ...

NEW YORK - 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 ...