LaVette, Bettye, 1946-

LC control no.	n 95001391
Descriptive conventions	rda
LC classification	ML420.L258 Biography
Personal name heading	LaVette, Bettye, 1946- *Browse this term in* LC Authorities or the LC Catalog
Variant(s)	LaVette, Betty, 1946- Haskin, Betty, 1946-
Associated country	United States
Birth date	19460129
Place of birth	Muskegon (Mich.)
Affiliation	Atlantic Recording Corporation Blues Express (Musical group)
Profession or occupation	Rhythm and blues musicians Singers
Found in	Tell me a lie [SR] p1982: label (Bettye Lavette) Music City soul [SR] 198-?: label (Betty LaVette) LaVette, B. I've got my own hell to raise [SR] p2005: label (Bettye LaVette) insert (b. 1946, Muskegon, Mich.; soul singer) All music guide WWW site, Mar. 3, 2006 (Bettye LaVette; b. Betty Haskin, Jan. 26, 1946, Muskegon, MI; soul singer) Bettye LaVette WWW site, Mar. 3, 2006 (Bettye LaVette) African American National Biography, accessed February 21, 2015, via Oxford African American Studies Center database: (LaVette, Bettye; Betty Jo Haskins; rhythm and blues musician, singer; born 29 January 1946 in Muskegon, Michigan, United States; cut a single, “My Man-He's a Lovin' Man,” released by Atlantic Records (1962); returned to Detroit (late 1960s); recorded first full album, “Child of the Seventies” at the famed Muscle Shoals studio in Alabama; spent the rest of the 70s on Broadway, appearing with Cab Calloway in the musical “Bubblin' Brown Sugar”; first major success since the 1960s, was the album “A Woman Like Me” on the Blues Express label (2003); received the W.C. Handy Award of the Blues Foundation (2004); recorded another critically acclaimed album of covers by female artists from Dolly Parton to Sinead O'Connor, “I've Got my Own Hell to Raise,” on Anti-Records (2005); was voted that year's Best Female Blues Singer by “Blues Critic” magazine; “Living Blues” magazine named her Blues Artist of the Year (2007); sang a duet with Jon Bon Jovi at the presidential inaugural of Barack Obama (2009); covered songs by the Who, the Animals, Led Zeppelin, and others in “Interpretations: The British Rock Song Book,” and toured with the former Led Zeppelin singer, Robert Plant (2010))