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Etta James (born Jamesetta Hawkins on January 25, 1938) is an American blues, soul, R&B, rock & roll and jazz singer and songwriter. She is the winner of four Grammys, seventeen Blues Music Awards, and was inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame (in 1993), the Blues Hall of Fame (in 2001), and the Grammy Hall of Fame (in both 1999 and 2008). Having her biggest success as a blues and R&B singer in the 1950s and 60s, she is best known for her 1961 ballad “At Last”, classified as a “timeless classic”[citation needed] and which has featured in many movies and television commercials.
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[edit] Early life and career|Jamesetta was born in Los Angeles, California to an unmarried 14-year-old African-American mother, Dorothy Hawkins. According to Etta, her mother claimed that her father was the white Rudolph “Minnesota Fats” Wanderone, and that they received financial support from him on the condition that they keep his paternity a secret. This seems unlikely, though it has not been definitively disproved. Etta was born in Los Angeles in 1938. At the time, Wanderone was known to be managing a pool hall in Washington, D.C. and had not yet become known to be the cross-country traveller he later became.
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Top 10 Etta James Songs
At Last
I'd Rather Go Blind
Stormy Weather
I Just Want To Make Love To You
A Sunday Kind Of Love
Trust In Me
Something's Got A Hold On Me
Tell Mama
My Dearest Darling
All I Could Do Is Cry
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Top 10 Etta James Albums
At Last
Her Best
At Last!
The Definitive Collection
The Best of Etta James
The Genuine Article: The Best Of Etta James
Burnin' Down The House
The Essential Etta James
Blues To The Bone
Love Songs
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