Etta James

Also known as Miss Peaches, Jamesetta Hawkins

American singer (1938–2012)

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Etta James was an influential American singer whose career spanned from the 1950s until her death in 2012, and she is remembered as a pioneering figure in blues, R&B, and rock and roll music. Her powerful voice and emotional delivery made her one of the most respected vocalists of her era, with her signature song "At Last" becoming an enduring classic.

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Person · Open Library

Born: 1938
Works: 9

Top works

Stand by Me
Roots of Rhythm
Rocks the house
Chicago blues festival 1985
The definitive collection

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Film & TV

Acting · Los Angeles, California, USA

Known for

They All Came Out to Montreux — Self (archive footage)2023
Soul Deep: The Story of Black Popular Music — Self2005
John Mayall & The Bluesbreakers - Jammin' with the Blues Greats — Herself2004
Etta James And The Roots Band: Burnin' Down The House — Vocals2002
The History of Rock 'n' Roll — Self1995
Etta James Live at Montreux 1993 — Etta James1993
Tap — Blues Singer1989
B.B. King & Friends — Self1987
Chuck Berry: Hail! Hail! Rock 'n' Roll — Self1987
Música para Sempre — Self1980

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type: Person
Gender: Female
Origin: United States
Active from: 1938
Active to: 2012

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Discography

Good Rockin’ Daddy / Crazy Feeling1955
All I Could Do Was Cry / Girl Of My Dreams1960
At Last!1960
If I Can't Have You / My Heart Cries1960
Spoonful / It's a Crying Shame1960
Don’t Cry Baby / Sunday Kind of Love1961
Miss Etta James1961
The Second Time Around1961
Etta James1962
Etta James Sings for Lovers1962

Member of

Official site Discogs Stream

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners: 2,310,253
Total plays: 33,108,223

Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

The PRISMA 2020 statement: an updated guideline for reporting systematic reviews
· 2021 · cited 77,587x
Special points for Brillouin-zone integrations
· 1976 · cited 67,213x
Fiji: an open-source platform for biological-image analysis
· 2012 · cited 65,134x
SciPy 1.0: fundamental algorithms for scientific computing in Python
· 2020 · cited 34,734x
Structural equation modeling in practice: A review and recommended two-step approach.
· 1988 · cited 31,278x

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Quotes

“When I look out at the people and they look at me and they're smiling, then I know that I'm loved. That is the time when I have no worries, no problems.”
“I wanna show that gospel, country, blues, rhythm and blues, jazz, rock ‘n’ roll are all just really one thing. Those are the American music and that is the American culture.”
“It feels so good to be happy.”
“I was just sitting here thinkin’ of your kiss and your warm embrace, when the reflection in the glass that I held to my lips now revealed the tears that was on my face.”
“I got a feeling, I feel so strange,Everything about me seems to have changed.Step by step, I got a brand new walk,I even sound sweeter when I talk.”
“I would rather, I would rather go blind boyThan to see you walk away from me child, and all.So you see, I love you so muchThat I don't want to watch you leave me baby.Most of all, I just don't, I just don't want to be free no.”

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Commons category: Etta James
date of birth: 1938-01-25
date of death: 2012-01-20
start of work period: 1954-00-00
pseudonym: Etta James
birth name: Jamesetta Hawkins
nickname: Miss Peaches
name in native language: Etta James
described at URL: www.marketplace-ettajamestribute.com
P12674: Michael Freytag

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Article

Jamesetta Hawkins (January 25, 1938 – January 20, 2012), known professionally as Etta James, was an American singer and songwriter. Starting her career in 1954, James frequently performed in Nashville's R&B clubs, collectively known in the 1940s, 1950s and 1960s as the Chitlin' Circuit. She sang in various genres, including gospel, blues, jazz, R&B, rock and roll and soul and gained fame with hits such as "The Wallflower" (1955), "At Last" (1960), "Something's Got a Hold on Me" (1962), "Tell Mama" and "I'd Rather Go Blind" (both 1967). She faced a number of personal problems, including heroin addiction, severe physical abuse and incarceration, before making a musical comeback in the late 1980s with the album Seven Year Itch (1988).

James's deep and earthy voice is considered to have bridged the gap between R&B and rock and roll. She won three Grammy Awards for her albums (2005 - Best Traditional Blues Album for Blues to the Bone; 2004 - Best Contemporary Blues Album for Let's Roll and 1995 - Best Jazz Vocal Performance, Female for Mystery Lady: Songs of Billie Holiday) and 17 Blues Music Awards. She was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1993, the Grammy Hall of Fame in 1999 and the Blues Hall of Fame in 2001. She also received the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award in 2003. Rolling Stone magazine ranked James number 22 on its 2008 list of the "100 Greatest Singers of All Time"; she was also ranked number 62 in its list of the "100 Greatest Artists of All Time". Billboard magazine's 2015 list of the "35 Greatest R&B Artists of All Time" also included James, whose "gutsy, take-no-prisoner vocals colorfully interpreted everything from blues and R&B/soul to rock n’roll, jazz and gospel." The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame named her "one of the greatest voices of her century" and "forever the matriarch of blues."