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Odetta Holmes (December 31, 1930 – December 2, 2008), [1] [2] known as Odetta, was an American singer, often referred to as "The Voice of the Civil Rights Movement". [3] Her musical repertoire consisted largely of American folk music, blues, jazz, and spirituals.
Bernice Johnson Reagon, a musician and scholar who used her rich, powerful contralto voice in the service of the American Civil Rights Movement and human rights struggles around the world, died on ...
Bettie Mae Fikes (born 1948) also known as The Voice of Selma, [1] is an American singer and civil rights activist. Fikes singing " This Little Light of Mine " in Selma, Alabama, in 2019. Life
Reagon was born in Nashville, Tennessee, and was named for Cordell Hull, the Secretary of State under President Franklin D. Roosevelt from 1933 to 1944. [1] Reagon's powerful tenor voice spread the message of the civil rights movement throughout the United States and Canada in the 1960s.
Odetta was a civil rights activist. [6] Although she grew up in the city, she described black folk music and spirituals as "liberation songs" and used this music to "do my teaching and preaching, my propagandizing." Both Odetta and Bob Dylan sang at the 1963 Civil Rights March in Washington DC.
Singer, actor and civil rights activist Harry Belafonte dies at 96. He was the first Black man to win an Emmy and a Tony. Harry Belafonte, singer, actor and civil rights activist, dies at 96
"Oh, Freedom" is a post-Civil War African-American freedom song. It is often associated with the Civil Rights Movement, with Odetta, who recorded it as part of the "Spiritual Trilogy", on her Odetta Sings Ballads and Blues album, [1] and with Joan Baez, who performed the song at the 1963 March on Washington. [2]
Harry Belafonte, a singer, actor and activist who brought the calypso style of music to the forefront of pop culture, has died, his spokesman said. Harry Belafonte, singer and trailblazing civil ...