#Patti LaBelle and the Bluebelles

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Today In History

Patti LaBelle the Godmother of Soul was born on this date May 24, 1944 in Philadelphia, PA.

LaBelle received acclaim for many of her songs, including “Lady Marmalade,” “When You Talk About Love,” New Attitude,” “If Only You Knew,” “Love, Need and Want You,” and “Stir It Up.”

She began her career as part of the Ordettes in 1959, who became the Bluebelles in 1961. Her success as a solo artist started in 1983 when she released her hit album I’m in Love Again.

And not to mention Pattie LaBelle’s sweet potato pie!

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omg i love aus where characters interact with our world it’s so self indulgent :D you talked about how zuko and toph would be into rock and hip hop, what do you think the other characters would listen to?

It's one of my most self-indulgent ideas. Right up there with my CaptainMe headcanon.

I feel like everyone's taste would be pretty eclectic, tbh. There would be a lot of overlap. Katara would love indie folk, though. I think she'd be a huge Alexz Johnson fan. She'd also love bands like Fleetwood Mac. Alt rock would be right up her alley, too. R&B would have her in a chokehold when she's deep in her feelings. When she breaks up with Aang Emotional Rollercoaster by Viviane Green would be on rotation for 3 days straight, and tell me she wouldn't insist on dancing to Spend My Life With You by Eric Benet and Tamia.

Sokka would love rock and rap, but his secret love would be pop music. Levitating by Dua Lipa is absolutely on his workout playlist. He also likes artists like Beyonce, Usher and Jason Derulo, and Justin Timberlake before his bizarre foray into...what was that album supposed to be? Country? Was it meant to be country?

Speaking of country, Suki is the biggest country fan of the group. Not to say it's her favorite genre, but she likes a lot of female country acts, like Miranda Lambert and Carrie Underwood.

Aang...I don't know... I feel like he'd be into some genre of music, but I honestly can't imagine what that would be. I think he would have really narrow tastes. His music preference would overlap the least with his friends.

Bonus: Iroh would be super into the Motown style music. The Isley Brothers, Al Green, The Temprees, Patti Labell and the Bluebells...He'd own all the vinyl's.

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Can you give us a rundown on all rockstars black lovers?

I could give a you a few but there was a lot of black lovers back then, it wasn’t too far fetch there was a lot of rockstars who slept with a black woman. I’ll do multiple threads because I sometimes can’t think of all of them. For starters of course, Mick! He’s slept with a bunch of black women, but then again he’s English, he doesn’t care. Cleo was his first love, PP Arnold dated him and gave details about their affair in her book “Soul Survivor”, I’ve heard he’s slept with Inez Foxx from the brother- sister duo, he’s been around Patti Labelle and the BlueBells and I’ve heard rumors about him sleeping with Patti and Cindy Birdsong (before she was a supreme) also read in a book somewhere that Nona Hendryx possibly slept with Keith, he’s gotten with Claudia Lennear from the Ike & Tina Revue, several black models (maybe Donyale Luna she used to do his makeup, Pat Cleveland, I know there’s more but can’t think of them) I know his slept with black groupies Devon Wilson & Winona Williams, Marsha Hunt, Ava Cherry was doing threesome with him and David Bowie, Estelle Bennett from the The Ronettes, and Rae Dawn Chong while they were filming a movie together.

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Patti LaBelle & The Bluebelles

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CINDY BIRDSONG

CINDY BIRDSONG

1939

The Supremes

            Cindy Birdsong was born in Mount Holly, New Jersey, US. Her family lived in Philadelphia during her childhood and then moved back to New Jersey. Birdsong dreamed of becoming a nurse and after schooling she went to study at college. In 1960, a friend contacted her and asked her if she could replace another singer in her group the Ordettes.

            Birdsong is best known for being one of the singers in the group The Supremes in 1967, when she replaced co-founding member Florence Ballard. Birdsong had previously been a member of Patti LaBelle & the Bluebells. She first met The Supremes when The Bluebells opened for them in 1963 and the two groups travelled together. Supreme singer, Ballard suffered from alcoholism and depression and Birdsong stood in for her as a stand-in during concerts. In 1967, Birdsong left The Bluebirds without telling her co-singers to join Diana Ross and The Supremes. The Bluebirds were angry and refused to talk to her (they changed their name to Labelle). For the first two years with The Supremes, Birdsong’s voice was rarely heard on music releases. Diana Ross left The Supremes in 1970 because she felt she outgrew them and wanted to go solo and Jean Terrell replaced her and Birdsong’s voice was heard more prominently. She left the Supremes when she became pregnant in 1972 and returned in 1973.

            Birdsong lives in Los Angeles, and was married to Charles Hewlett in 1970; they had a son David and divorced in 1975.

            In 1969, Birdsong was kidnapped at knifepoint by a maintenance man who worked in the same building where she lived. She, Hewlett and friend Howard Meek had returned to her apartment when the man threatened them with a knife. He made Birdsong tie up the two men and then forced her downstairs and into his car. She escapes unharmed by jumping out of his car on the San Diego freeway. The kidnapper, Charles Collier, is arrested in Las Vegas, 4 days later.

            In her later life, Birdsong suffered from several strokes and her family revealed that her carer and friend prevented them from being able to support her, a judge awarded her family with conservatorship in 2023.

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When Patti shrieked at the top of her lungs I know Jackie Wilson was scared cause damn. Those pipes are powerful. They can shatter glass from a three story window.

Patti LaBelle & The Bluebelles “You Forgot How To Love” (Atlantic 2311-B, 1965)

This slightly folk influenced stormer rode the B-side of Patti & The Bluebelles debut Atlantic single.

Given that the A-side stalled in all of it’s flamboyant glory over the Holiday 1965 season, it would have been more reasonable to pull this slightly lighter and more dance-able song as an A side instead of the crass covers of standards that would soon follow.

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Who Is The Living Queen Of Soul?

You can vote on the Queen on the R&B subreddit here

In particular, the death of singer Aretha Franklin in August 2018 left a gash in the collective cultural psyche of America, a deepening crevice that I believe worsens the longer the title of Queen of Soul music is left uninhabited.

Upon reflection, it becomes apparent that what Aretha’s reign of Soul music most importantly did was to codify the musical textures, vocal phrasing and techniques of presentation comprise Soul music and R&B in general.  Since her death, R&B music has given me a curious, rudderless impression, as if waiting for a style to settle upon, or for an emotion clear enough to spin into a groove of sentiment.  What the genre needs, is a refocusing of its strengths, that broad-chested arrogance that imagination brings and the polestar of excellence that only a queen can bring. Therefore, it begs the question: who is the living Queen of Soul?

Four candidates come to my mind when thinking of living embodiments of the genre of Soul music: Gladys Knight, Patti LaBelle, Chaka Khan and Mary J. Blige.  These women have each created multiple classic Soul, R&B and Disco records, spanning multiple generations, each one with enough lasting resonance to be sampled in prominent Hip-Hop records.  They exemplify the genre, but with their own idiosyncratic strong points, and would chart a disparate course for the future of R&B if one was chosen as Queen of Soul over the other.

To many, especially in the American South, Gladys Knight would be their reflexive choice, the Southern Georgia bred voice that, between 1957 and 1987 powered her group The Pips 19 top 20 R&B hits with 16 of those becoming top 20 Pop hits. She imbued a deep pathos of longing on songs “Help Me Get Through The Night,” “If I Was Your Woman” and the classic “Midnight Train To Georgia.”  Her church-taut control of her alto voice is the engine of the group's biggest hits, that reign brightest during her Motown years of 1966 to 1973, her languished phrasing falling out of favour by the late Seventies, over-shadowed by Disco and Pop hits, the Eighties only yielding one minor hit for the group with “Love Overboard.”

While her Sixties masterpieces have been sampled by the late J Dilla to 2000s rapper Freeway, I’m not sure that her vocal phrasing or songcraft has influence on the current generation of singers, and a choice for her would signal a traditionalist desire to return to the classic sound of Soul music, which might not be such a bad thing all things considered.

Ms. Patti LaBelle has been around just as long as Gladys, and, truth be told, is the voice I am slightly biased towards when I think of R&B.  her voice contains a range of voices, from the high-pitched screams of adoration of “My Love, Sweet Love” to the hot scat at the end of “You Are My Friend.”  Her voice is a sweet glue that powered her group The Bluebelle to early Sixties hits like “I Gave My Heart To The Junkman” and “The Wedding Song,” which helped to standardise the Rhythm & Blues genre in the process.

What she is missing is notable songs between 1966 and 1974, when Soul music was in heyday, with hits by Aretha, Stevie Wonder and Marvin Gaye.  As a Pop culture figure though, she has endured, her songs covered by Christina Aguilera and sampled on classic Rap songs by Outkast and Nelly.  Her voice is instantly recognizable, still a mainstay on quiet storm radio, an elemental thread in the perception of Soul music today.  Her ad libs at the end of her hit “If Only You Knew” are legendary, each syllable coming hot and incandescent from her throat into our ears.

If you were looking for a queen that can bridge the old and new idioms of Soul then you would be looking for Chaka Khan.  Rising to prominence with funk band Rufus with the number one hit “Tell Me Something Good” from 1974, producing 12 top 20 R&B hits with the band.

As a solo artist she was on the cutting edge of R&B, utilising the latest drum machines and synths, like on number one Pop hit “I Feel For You,” and on “Through The Fire,” famously sampled by Kanye West.  Khan’s voice is an electric and druggy funk, perfect for the weird 70s and the messed-up party of the 80s.  I love how she phrases sorrow and wonder, with yelps and deep layered harmonies, her wild voice writhing like the untamed want underneath Soul music itself.  While she isn’t as big of a household name as others on this list, none of them were as adventurous with their sexiness as Chaka.

From her debut “What’s The 411?” Mary J Blige was a generational talent.  The rough-hewn vocals expressed a working class anguish and joy that connected with young Gen X Black women looking for an alternative to Whitney Houston and Anita Baker.  With her 1992 number one hit “Real Love and her hit “Be Happy” from her sophomore album, she fit in the pocket of those Hip-Hop drums, threading her runs around them.

Of the women mentioned here, Mary J Blige has consistently been on the charts the longest, a presence though the 90s, 2000s, 2010s and the 2020s with her latest album “Good Morning Gorgeous.” She had early 90s rap trendsetter Grand Puba on her debut album and buzzed-about rappers from the Griselda label on her latest.  While she was not active during the 70s zenith of Soul music, Blige knows where her voice is most effective, and always has her finger on the pulse of current music.  Could it be she is the queen our 21st century needs?

Aretha’s death hit me harder than I thought it would, for reasons I outlined here, but the vacuum she left has been felt as well when it comes to the state of R&B.  Does it return to conservative roots with a play to its true strengths of musicianship and gospel-esque ad libs, or does it embrace the brave new world of technological improvements, production and vocals that create a ‘vibe’ to be mixed into streaming playlists? Well, only a queen can answer that.

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PATTI LABELLE & THE BLUEBELLS Down The Aisle [ Wedding Song ] .wmv

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Cynthia Ann Birdsong (born December 15, 1939) is a singer who became famous as a member of The Supremes in 1967 when she replaced co-founding member Florence Ballard. She had been a member of Patti LaBelle & the Bluebelles. She set her sights on becoming a nurse and attending college in Pennsylvania. When she returned to Philadelphia she was contacted by a longtime friend, Patsy Holt, in 1960 to replace Sundray Tucker in Holt's singing group The Ordettes. At 21 years of age, she was the oldest member of the group with the remainder of the group still in their mid-teens. Starting in mid and late 1966, she began to appear as a stand-in vocalist for Supremes founder Florence Ballard. In 1967, she abruptly left the Bluebelles to join Diana Ross and the Supremes as Ballard's official replacement. After leaving the Supremes, she worked as a nurse at UCLA Medical Center under her married name Cindy Hewlett and then went to work for Suzanne de Passe at Motown Records. #africanhistory365 #africanexcellence https://www.instagram.com/p/CmMEGzKLDa6/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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The Incomparable Sarah Dash

Even a cursory glance at Sarah Dash’s career accomplishments reveals a woman steeped in music who has lived through everchanging trends and times in the world of entertainment and remains as vital and vibrant as ever.

She is, of course, a founding member of Patti Labelle & The Bluebelles. With hits like “Lady Marmalade,” “I Sold My Heart To The Junkman” and versions of classic tunes like “Danny Boy” and “You’ll Never Walk Alone,” the group became instant favorites with audiences at venues like The Apollo, The Regal in Chicago and The Uptown in Philadelphia: “The people loved us because no other black female groups were doing those kind of songs. They liked the way we moved onstage and our harmonies,” Sarah adds. “We even had one show where James Brown didn’t want to follow us!”

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Patti LaBelle - All This Love (Official Music Video) Happy Birthday Patricia Louise Holt-Edwards (born May 24, 1944), better known under the stage name #PattiLaBelle, is an American singer, author, actress, and entrepreneur. LaBelle began her career in the early 1960s as lead singer and front woman of the vocal group, Patti LaBelle and the Bluebelles. Following the group’s name change to Labelle in the early 1970s, she released the iconic disco song “Lady Marmalade” and the group later became the first African-American vocal group to land the cover of Rolling Stone magazine. After the group split in 1976, LaBelle began a successful solo career, starting with her critically acclaimed debut album, which included the career-defining song, “You Are My Friend”. LaBelle became a mainstream solo star in 1984 following the success of the singles, “If Only You Knew”, “New Attitude” and “Stir It Up”, with the latter two crossing over to pop audiences becoming radio staples.Less than two years later, in 1986, LaBelle scored with the number-one album, Winner in You and the number-one duet single, “On My Own”, with Michael McDonald. LaBelle eventually won a 1992 Grammy for Best Female R&B Vocal Performance for her 1991 album, Burnin’, followed by a second Grammy win for the live album, Live! One Night Only. Her 1990s albums, Burnin’, Gems (1994) and Flame (1997), continued her popularity with young R&B audiences throughout the decade. Following the release of two mildly receptive solo albums in the early new millennium, she reunited with her Labelle band mates for the album, Back to Now, followed by a briefly well received promotional tour. LaBelle’s success has extended as an actress with a notable role in the film, A Soldier’s Story, and in TV shows such as A Different World and American Horror Story: Freak Show. In 1992, LaBelle starred in her own TV sitcom, Out All Night. A decade later, LaBelle hosted her own lifestyle TV show, Living It Up with Patti LaBelle on TV One. In 2015, LaBelle took part in the dance competition, Dancing with the Stars.In a career that has spanned fifty years, she has sold more than 50 million records worldwide. LaBelle has been inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame, the Hollywood Walk of Fame, the Apollo Theater Hall of Fame and the Songwriters’ Hall of Fame. In 2005, the World Music Awards recognized her years in the music business by awarding her the Legend Award. Possessing the voice of a soprano, LaBelle was included in Rolling Stone on their list of 100 Greatest Singers. LaBelle is commonly identified as the “Godmother of Soul”.Early life and careerPatti LaBelle and the BluebellesLaBelle was born Patricia Louise Holte on May 24, 1944 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, the third of four girls to Henry and Bertha Holte. Her father was a railroad worker and her mother was a domestic. Despite enjoying her childhood, LaBelle would later write in her memoirs, Don’t Block the Blessings, that her parents’ marriage was abusive. When Patti was seven, she was sexually molested by a family friend. At twelve, her parents’ marriage came to an end, though Patti remained close to her father. Patti joined a local church choir at the Beulah Baptist Church at ten and performed her first solo two years later, while she also grew up listening to secular music styles such as R&B and jazz music. When she was fifteen, she won a talent competition at her high school. This success led to Patti forming her first singing group, the Ordettes, in 1960, with schoolmates Jean Brown, Yvonne Hogen and Johnnie Dawson. The group, with Patti as front woman, became a local attraction until two of its members left to marry. In 1962, the Ordettes included three new members, Cindy Birdsong, Sarah Dash and Nona Hendryx, the latter two girls having sung for another defunct vocal group. That year, they auditioned for local record label owner Harold Robinson. Robinson agreed to work with the group after Patti began singing the song “I Sold My Heart to the Junkman”. Initially Robinson was dismissive of Patti due to him feeling Patti was “too dark and too plain”.Shortly after signing them, he had them record as the Blue Belles and they were selected to promote the recording of “I Sold My Heart to the Junkman”, which had been recorded by The Starlets, but was assigned as a Blue Belles single due to label conflict. The Starlets’ manager sued Harold Robinson after the Blue Belles were seen performing a lip-synching version of the song on American Bandstand. After settling out of court, Robinson altered the group’s name to “Patti LaBelle and The Blue Belles”. Initially, a Billboard ad cited the group as “Patti Bell and the Blue Bells”. In 1963, the group scored their first hit single with the ballad “Down the Aisle (The Wedding Song)” which became a crossover top 40 hit on the Billboard pop and R&B charts after King Records issued it. Later in the year, they recorded their rendition of the standard “You’ll Never Walk Alone”; the single was later re-released on Cameo-Parkway Records where the group scored a second hit on the pop charts with the song in 1964. Another charted single, “Danny Boy”, was released that same year. In 1965, after Cameo-Parkway folded, the group moved to New York and signed with Atlantic Records where they recorded twelve singles for the label, including the mildly charted singles “All or Nothing” and “Take Me for a Little While”. The group’s Atlantic tenure included their rendition of “Over the Rainbow” and a version of the song “Groovy Kind of Love”. In 1967, Birdsong left the group to join The Supremes and by 1970 the group had been dropped from Atlantic Records as well as by their longtime manager Bernard Montague.That year, Vicki Wickham, producer of the UK music show, Ready, Steady, Go, agreed to manage the group after Dusty Springfield mentioned signing them. Wickham’s first direction for the group was for them to change their name to simply Labelle and advised the group to renew their act, going for a more homegrown look and sound that reflected psychedelic soul. In 1971, the group opened for The Who in several stops on the group’s U.S. tour.LabelleLabelle signed with the Warner Music imprint, Track Records, and released their self-titled debut album in 1971. The record’s psychedelic soul sound and its blending of rock and soul rhythms was a departure from the group’s early sound. That same year, they sang background vocals on Laura Nyro’s album, Gonna Take a Miracle. A year later, in 1972, the group released Moon Shadow, which repeated the homegrown gritty sound of the previous album. In 1973, influenced by glam rockers David Bowie and Elton John, Wickham had the group dressed in silver space suits and luminescent makeup.After their third successive album, Pressure Cookin’, failed to generate a hit, Labelle signed with Epic Records in 1974, releasing their most successful album to date, with Nightbirds, which blended soul, funk and rock music, thanks to the work of the album’s producer, Allen Toussaint. The single, “Lady Marmalade”, would become their biggest-selling single, going number one on the Billboard Hot 100 and selling over a million copies, as did Nightbirds, which later earned a RIAA gold award, for sales of a million units. In October 1974, Labelle made pop history by becoming the first rock and roll vocal group to perform at the Metropolitan Opera House. Riding high on the success of “Lady Marmalade” and the Nightbirds album, Labelle made the cover of Rolling Stone in 1975.Labelle released two more albums, Chameleon and Phoenix in 1975 and 1976 respectively. While both albums continued the group’s critical success, none of the singles issued on those albums ever crossed over to the pop charts. By 1976, Patti, Nona and Sarah began arguing over the group’s musical direction. Personal difficulties came to a head during a December 16, 1976 show in Baltimore, Maryland where Nona Hendryx went backstage and injured herself during a nervous breakdown. Following the incident, LaBelle advised the group to separate.Solo careerEarly solo career (1977–1984)Signing a solo contract with Epic Records in 1977, she recruited David Rubinson, producer of Chameleon, to record her self-titled debut album, which was released that year. The album was noted for the disco hits, “Joy to Have Your Love” and “Dan Swit Me” and the gospel ballad, “You Are My Friend”, the latter song becoming her first career-defining single despite its low entry on the R&B chart. Three more albums were released in succession on Epic through 1980, with the songs “Eyes in the Back of My Head”, “Little Girls”, “Music is My Way of Life”, “Come What May”, “Release (The Tension)” and “I Don’t Go Shopping”, the latter song co-written by Peter Allen, being the most successful.After four albums on Epic, LaBelle signed with Philadelphia International Records where she recorded her career-defining version of “Over the Rainbow” on the album The Spirit’s in It. In 1982, she was featured on the Grover Washington duet “The Best Is Yet to Come”, and earned accolades that year for starring in the Broadway musical Your Arms Too Short to Box with God. “The Best Is Yet to Come” later earned LaBelle her first Grammy Award nomination. In 1983, LaBelle released her breakthrough album I’m in Love Again which included her first top ten R&B singles, with “Love, Need and Want You” and “If Only You Knew”, the latter song also becoming her first number-one single as a solo artist in early 1984. Later in 1984, she scored another hit with Bobby Womack on the song “Love Has Finally Come at Last” and appeared as a club singer in the film A Soldier’s Story.Crossover success (1984–2009)In 1984, LaBelle recorded the songs “New Attitude” and “Stir It Up” for the soundtrack to the Eddie Murphy film, Beverly Hills Cop. Following the release of the film, “New Attitude” was released as a single in late 1984 and became LaBelle’s first crossover solo hit, reaching number 17 on the Billboard Hot 100 and becoming a signature song. “Stir It Up” found similar success on pop radio and as a staple in dance clubs. In 1985, LaBelle performed on the TV special, Motown Returns to Apollo and also as part of the all-star benefit concert, Live Aid. LaBelle’s notoriety from performing on these two specials made her a pop star and led to having her own television special later that same year. Also in the same year, a video of a performance from her tour of that year was issued on VHS. During this period, LaBelle ended her contractual obligations to Philadelphia International and signed with MCA Records.In 1986, LaBelle released her best-selling solo album to date with Winner in You with the album reaching number one on the pop charts. The album included the international number-one hit, “On My Own” and the hit ballad “Oh People”. The success of Winner in You would prove to be the peak of her solo success, though she continued her acclaim with the 1989 release of Be Yourself, which featured “Yo Mister” and the hit ballad “If You Asked Me To”, which found bigger success in a remake by singer Celine Dion. In the year of that album’s release, LaBelle began a successful stint in a recurring role on A Different World, the success of which spawned a brief sitcom of her own, titled Out All Night, which only lasted a season. In 1991, she recorded a hit duet version of the Babyface composition, ���Superwoman” with Gladys Knight and Dionne Warwick. The trio had previously appeared in the Sisters in the Name of Love TV special in 1987. The same year of the release of “Superwoman”, LaBelle issued the solo album, Burnin’, which went gold, with three successive top five singles on the R&B charts. This success led to LaBelle winning her first Grammy Award in the Best Female R&B Vocal Performance category, sharing the win with singer Lisa Fischer, who won for her hit ballad, “How Can I Ease the Pain”, in a rare tie in the history of the Grammys.LaBelle’s 1994 album, Gems, also went gold and featured the hit, “The Right Kinda Lover”. Three years after that, LaBelle released the album, Flame, which included the dance hit, “When You Talk About Love”. LaBelle released her best-selling memoirs, Don’t Block the Blessings, in 1996, and released the first of five best-selling cookbooks in 1997. In 1998, she released the live album, Live! One Night Only, later resulting in a second Grammy win the following February. It remains her most recent Grammy win. In 2000, LaBelle released her final MCA album, When a Woman Loves, before signing with Def Soul Classics to release the 2004 album, Timeless Journey. Following the release of her 2005 covers album, Classic Moments, LaBelle engaged in a rivalry with Antonio “L.A.” Reid over the direction of her career, leading to her leaving the label. In 2006, she released her first gospel album, The Gospel According to Patti LaBelle on the Bungalo label, the album later peaking at number one on Billboard’s gospel chart. LaBelle also released the book, Patti’s Pearls, during this period. She returned to Def Jam in 2007 and released her second holiday album, Miss Patti’s Christmas. In 2008, LaBelle briefly reunited with Nona Hendryx and Sarah Dash as Labelle on the group’s first new album in more than 30 years, Back to Now.Later career (2010–present)On September 14, 2010, LaBelle made a return two decades after her last Broadway performance to star in the award-winning musical Fela! about Afrobeat legend Fela Anikulapo-Kuti. LaBelle replaced Tony Award-nominee Lillias White as Fela’s mother, Funmilayo Ransome-Kuti, and remained with the production through the end of its run on January 2, 2011.On May 23, 2011, LaBelle appeared on “Oprah’s Farewell Spectacular, Part 1” the first show in a series of three shows constituting the finale of The Oprah Winfrey Show, singing “Over the Rainbow” with Josh Groban. LaBelle was honored with the Lifetime Achievement Award at the BET Awards on June 26, 2011. LaBelle and Aretha Franklin, among others, performed at the “Women of Soul: In Performance at the White House” concert hosted by President Barack Obama at the White House, recorded on March 6, 2014.On June 10, 2014, LaBelle returned to Broadway as the cast and creative team of the Tony Award-nominated smash hit Broadway musical After Midnight, welcomed her as “Special Guest Star”. In August 2014, it was announced that LaBelle would appear in a guest role on the upcoming fourth season of the FX horror anthology television series American Horror Story, subtitled Freak Show.On February 24, 2015, LaBelle was announced as one of the celebrities who would compete on the 20th season of Dancing with the Stars. She partnered with professional dancer Artem Chigvintsev. The couple was eliminated on Week 6 and finished in eighth place. LaBelle has consistently toured the United States selling out shows in various markets. In 2012 and 2014 she appeared with Frankie Beverly & Maze on cross-country USA tours. In 2015 LaBelle made a guest appearance on Fox’s television series Empire as herself.She is scheduled to be a “key advisor” on the NBC series The Voice.Her first jazz album, Bel Hommage, was releaased in 2017.Personal lifeLaBelle later accounted in her memoirs that she was sexually assaulted by Jackie Wilson while at the Brooklyn Fox Theatre in the 1960s. Around 1964, LaBelle was engaged to Otis Williams, founding member of The Temptations, but broke it off due to scheduling conflicts. In 1969, LaBelle married a longtime friend, Armstead Edwards. After LaBelle started a solo career, Edwards became her manager until the couple separated in the late 1990s. In 2000, the couple announced they had legally separated. Three years later, their divorce was finalized. They have a child, Zuri Kye Edwards (born 1973), who is now her current manager. In addition to Zuri, LaBelle has two people in her life who are like sons to her, Dodd and Stanley. LaBelle came to know them after the death of their mother, Veaunita, a neighborhood acquaintance.In 1972, her eldest sister Vivian Rogers died of lung cancer at 42. In 1982, she lost her second-eldest sister, Barbara Purifoy, to colon cancer at 41. ln 1978 she lost her mother, Bertha, to diabetes. In 1989, she lost her father Henry to emphysema brought on by complications of Alzheimer’s disease and her youngest sister, Jacqueline “Jackie” Padgett, to lung cancer. Jackie was only 43 when she died. LaBelle dedicated her album, Burnin’ and her rendition of “Wind Beneath My Wings” in her 1991/92 concert tour to Padgett. After burying Padgett, LaBelle shot the music video to “If You Asked Me To”. In 1995, LaBelle was diagnosed with diabetes. LaBelle has a home in the Philadelphia suburb of Wynnewood and also has condos in Los Angeles and in the Bahamas.Civil suitIn June 2011, a West Point cadet filed a civil suit against LaBelle after he was allegedly assaulted by her bodyguards. LaBelle and her entourage were on their way to a gig in Louisiana when Richard King, a 23-year-old cadet on spring break, approached her limousine. Having been drinking, he then verbally assailed LaBelle and exchanged heated words with her son Zuri Edwards, working as her driver at the time. King punched Edwards, and Holmes stepped in, striking King several times. According to court documents, King’s intoxication level was almost 3.5 times the Texas legal limit that day. Initially, he could not remember what happened and authorities reported him as the aggressor, but no one from LaBelle’s team pressed charges.King was later given a suspension from the U.S. Military Academy. He sued LaBelle and Holmes for assault, seeking $1 million in civil court. LaBelle filed a counter-suit. Efrem Holmes, Labelle’s bodyguard, was acquitted of misdemeanor assault on November 12, 2013, a charge stemming from the 2011 incident at George Bush International Airport in Houston, Texas.VoiceLaBelle is a dramatic soprano, with a range spanning approximately 3 octaves, 2 notes and 2 semitones (Bb2–E6). With exceptional control over every aspect of her voice- including its dynamics, tone, timbre and phrasing- she wields it with freedom and an instinctive edge. LaBelle is distinctly known for her explosive, powerful and incredibly emotive voice.InfluenceAs lead singer of the idiosyncratic group Labelle, Patti LaBelle has been called one of the pioneers of the disco movement due to singles such as “Lady Marmalade” and “Messin’ With My Mind”. In turn, “Lady Marmalade” has been also called one of the first mainstream disco hits (Jones and Kantonen, 1999). Rolling Stone included LaBelle in its 100 Greatest Singers list in 2011, citing her as an influencing factor to “generations of soul singers” including Luther Vandross, Alicia Keys, Mary J. Blige, and Christina Aguilera.Pop cultureLaBelle made some headlines in late 2015 when a vlogger known as James Wright (No Chanel) spoke enthusiastically on YouTube of her brand of sweet potato pies. The video went so viral that one pie was sold every second at Walmart, selling out across the country. She also appeared in two Walmart commercials, one of which was for her sweet potato pie.DiscographyThe Bluebelles & LabelleSolo career“You Are My Friend” (1977) – R&B #61“If Only You Knew” (1983) – US #46 R&B #1“Love Has Finally Come at Last” (with Bobby Womack) (1984) – US #88 R&B #3“Love, Need and Want You” (1984) – R&B #10“New Attitude” (1985) – US #17 R&B #3“Stir It Up” (1985) – US #41 R&B #5“On My Own (with Michael McDonald)” (1986) – US #1 R&B #1“Oh, People” (1986) – US #29 R&B #7“Kiss Away The Pain” (1986) – R&B #13“If You Asked Me To” (1989) – US #79 R&B #10“Yo Mister” (1989) – R&B #6“Feels Like Another One” (1991) – R&B #3“Somebody Loves You Baby (You Know Who It Is)” (1991) – R&B #2“When You’ve Been Blessed (Feels Like Heaven)” (1991) – R&B #4“The Right Kinda Lover” (1994) – US #61 R&B #8“When You Talk About Love” (1997) – US #56 R&B #12“New Day” (2004) – US #93 R&B #36

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After a decade on the 60's girl group 'Chiffon Circuit', Patti LaBelle, Nona Hendryx, and Sarah Dash changed their name from The Bluebelles to Labelle and delivered an electrifying legendary performance at the Metropolitan Opera House to celebrate the release of Nightbirds and its most well-known track, “Lady Marmalade.”  With sumptuous and galactic costumes, genre-bending lyrics, and stratospheric vocals, Labelle’s out-of-this-world performances made them the first Black group to grace the cover of Rolling Stone magazine.  Their unique sound and style left an indelible impression on legions of fans, including sisters Crystal Wilson Blackmon and Penni Wilson, collectively known as Crystal Penny.  Crystal Penny's new single, Standards, produced by Ivan Hampden Jr., pays tribute to famous divas like Patti LaBelle, whose music and artistry still capture listeners' hearts today.  Listen now: https://open.spotify.com/track/3B1Ash4Rhg7HcZzD3sx4tP?si=17b0db640ae64192