Before there was Bob Dylan, the folk revival icon, there was Odetta. Before there was Janis Joplin, the wailing blues singer, there was Odetta. The woman whom Martin Luther King Jr. called the “Queen ...
The career of Odetta, the powerhouse folk singer and icon of the civil rights movement in America who died Tuesday at age 77, mirrors the civil rights struggle in this country. It is ironic that her ...
NEW YORK -- Odetta's monumental voice rang out in August 1963 when she sang I'm on My Way at the historic March on Washington, where Martin Luther King delivered his "I Have a Dream" speech. She had ...
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