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 ...

Rosa Parks was her No. 1 fan, and Martin Luther King Jr. called her the queen of American folk music. Odetta's stage presence was regal enough: planted onstage like an oak tree no one would dare cut ...

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 ...

Odetta, “one of the most beloved figures in folk music,” said Randy Lewis and Mike Boehm in the Los Angeles Times, died at the age of 77 in New York on Tuesday. Born Odetta Holmes in Birmingham, Ala., ...

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 ...

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 of heart disease at Lenox ...