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Etta James (born Jamesetta Hawkins; January 25, 1938 – January 20, 2012) was an American singer. Her style spanned a variety of music genres including blues, rhythm and blues, rock and roll, soul, gospel and jazz. Starting her career in the mid-1950s, she gained fame with hits such as "Dance With Me, Henry", "At Last", "Tell Mama", and "I'd Rather Go Blind" for which she wrote the lyrics. She faced a number of personal problems, including drug addiction, before making a musical resurgence in the late 1980s with the album The Seven Year Itch.
James is regarded as having bridged the gap between rhythm and blues and rock and roll, and is the winner of six Grammys and 17 Blues Music Awards. She 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.Rolling Stone ranked James number 22 on their list of the 100 Greatest Singers of All Time and number 62 on the list of the 100 Greatest Artists.
Jamesetta Hawkins was born on January 25, 1938, in Los Angeles, California, to Dorothy Hawkins, who was only 14 at the time. Her father has never been identified. James speculated that her father was the pool player, Rudolf "Minnesota Fats" Wanderone, and met him briefly in 1987. Due to her mother being often absent from their Watts apartment, conducting relationships with various men, James lived with a series of foster parents, most notably "Sarge" and "Mama" Lu. James referred to her mother as "the Mystery Lady".
Actors: Gabrielle Union (actress), Beyoncé Knowles (producer), Emmanuelle Chriqui (actress), Elvis Presley (actor), Jeffrey Wright (actor), Beyoncé Knowles (actress), Mos Def (actor), Jay O. Sanders (actor), Eric Bogosian (actor), Cedric the Entertainer (actor), Vincent D'Onofrio (actor), Norman Reedus (actor), Adrien Brody (actor), Terence Blanchard (composer), Marc Levin (producer),
Plot: In this tale of sex, violence, race, and rock and roll in 1950s Chicago, "Cadillac Records" follows the exciting but turbulent lives of some of America's musical legends, including Muddy Waters, Leonard Chess, Little Walter, Howlin' Wolf, Etta James and Chuck Berry.
Keywords: 1950s, african-american, african-american-music, arson, band, bankruptcy, bathtub, bigotry, billboard-magazine, blues-musicI don’t want you to be no slave
I don’t want to work all day
but I want you to be true
and I just wanna make love to you
love to you
ooh-ooh
love to you
all I want to do is wash your clothes
I don’t want to keep you indoors
there is nothing for you to do
but keep me making love to you
love to you
ooh-ooh
love to you
CHORUS and I can tell by the way
that you walk that walk
I can hear by the way
you talk that talk
and I can know by the way
you treat your girl
that I could give you all the loving
in the whole wide world
all I want to do is bake your bread
just to make sure you’re well fed
I don’t want you sad and blue
and I just wanna make love to you
CHORUS
all I want to do is bake your bread
just to make sure you’re well fed
I don’t want you sad and blue
and I just wanna make love to you
love to you
ooh-ooh
love to you
ooh-ooh
love to you