Artist Profile: Odetta

Singer/songwriter Odetta has spent the last fifty years or more making incredible, unmatchable music. Known for her powerful stage presence and her unforgettable voice, Odetta's music blends blues, gospel, and folk. During her career, she's demonstrated for Civil Rights with Martin Luther King, Jr., hung out with Ramblin' Jack in San Francisco, and toured with musical theatre productions. It was her signing with Vanguard Records in 1963, however, that set her career in stone and opened the way for her to become inarguably one of the most influential African-American folksingers ever.
(image: Odetta "Tradition Masters" CD cover, Tradition Records, 2002)