RIP Odetta
Odetta, Voice of Civil Rights Movement, Dies at 77
Odetta, the singer whose deep voice wove together the strongest songs of American folk music and the civil rights movement, died on Tuesday at Lenox Hill Hospital in Manhattan. She was 77.
The cause was heart disease, said her manager, Doug Yeager. He added that she had been hoping to sing at Barack Obama’s inauguration.</em>
If you’ve never heard her sing, you’re missing one of America’s greatest treasures.
