ODETTA HOLMES- TO THOSE WHO CAME BEFORE US


	ODETTA HOLMES- TO THOSE WHO CAME BEFORE US

klippety

12-3-2008 6:01 PM

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A champion for music, black history and civil rights gas gone from this earth

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/e3e21eb4-9880-44fb-a318-1a63509f0eec/FF284E1F-78E3-46D0-A637-A44E05A8ABCC/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2008/12/03" href="http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2008/12/03" style="font-size: 11px;">www.commondreams.org</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2008/12/03"><H1 class="title">Odetta Holmes Dies at 77; Folk Singer Championed Black History, Civil Rights</H1></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2008/12/03"><SPAN class="submitted">
          Published on Wednesday, December 3, 2008 by <A href="http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/california/la-me-odetta3-2008dec03,0,7701243.story" target="_blank" class="external">The Los Angeles Times</A>            </SPAN></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2008/12/03"><P>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 starting in the
folk revival of the 1950s, has died. She was 77.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2008/12/03"><DIV class="caption"><IMG height="241" width="350" align="bottom" alt="[Odetta, who used just her given name professionally, had trained as a classical vocalist as a child and later discovered folk music, which she said “really touched where I live.” She became an inspiration to other folk singers and eventually received a National Medal of Arts and a Living Legend Award. (
Los Angeles Times)]" class="imagefield imagefield-field_image" title="odetta1203.jpg" src="http://www.commondreams.org/files/article_images/odetta1203.jpg" />Odetta, who used just her given name professionally, had trained as a classical vocalist as a child and later discovered folk music, which she said “really touched where I live.” She became an inspiration to other folk singers and eventually received a National Medal of Arts and a Living Legend Award. (
Los Angeles Times)</DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2008/12/03"><P>She was said to have influenced the emergence of artists as varied as Bob Dylan, Joan Baez, Janis Joplin and Tracy Chapman.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2008/12/03">"The first thing that turned me on to folk singing was Odetta," Dylan
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