Folk performer Odetta sings at the New Orleans Jazz Festival in this 1978 file photo. Odetta, the folk singer with the powerful voice who moved audiences and influenced fellow musicians for a ...

On08, Odetta, the Queen of American Folk Music, died at 77 years old, leaving behind a stunning musical legacy.

ON the same day, on the same steps where Martin Luther King Jr. would deliver his "I Have a Dream" speech in 1963, Odetta—only 33 but already a folk-music force—sang "I'm on My Way." And she was. The ...

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 Hill ...

THE power and influence of folk singer Odetta Holmes, or simply Odetta, does not have a ready comparison in an Internet world. Her death at age 77 is less about time and generations than cultural and ...

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 ...

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NEW YORK (AP) -- 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 ...

Odetta died Tuesday of heart disease at Lenox Hill Hospital, said her manager of 12 years, Doug Yeager. She was admitted to the hospital with kidney failure about three weeks ago, he said. In spite of ...