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Betty Davis (born Betty Gray Mabry; July 26, 1944 – February 9, 2022) was an American singer, songwriter, and model. She was known for her controversial sexually oriented lyrics and performance style, and was the second wife of trumpeter Miles Davis . [ 1 ]
Betty Davis, left, with husband Miles Davis and an unidentified woman arriving at the funeral of Jimi Hendrix in 1970. (Bob Peterson/Getty Images) Featuring boastful lyrics about love, lust and ...
Betty, the ex-wife of jazz great Miles Davis and a legend in her own right, was 77. A flamboyant futuristic funk diva, Betty vanished from the scene for 40 years, but the cult figure’s brief yet ...
Miles Dewey Davis III (May 26, 1926 – September 28, 1991) was an American jazz trumpeter, bandleader, and composer. He is among the most influential and acclaimed figures in the history of jazz and 20th-century music.
Singer-songwriter-producer Betty Davis, an icon of future-funk, fashion and bold sexuality in the 1970s, died Wednesday at age 76 in her longtime home of Homestead, Pennsylvania. Davis, who was ...
Betty Davis is the eponymous debut studio album by American funk singer Betty Davis, released through Just Sunshine Records (an upstart label) in 1973.The album was produced by Greg Errico and features contributions from a number of noted musicians, including Neal Schon, Merl Saunders, Sylvester, Larry Graham, Pete Sears, and The Pointer Sisters.
Funk singer Betty Davis died on Wednesday of natural causes at age 77. Davis, who was the ex-wife of famed The post Betty Davis, trailblazing funk singer, dies at 77 appeared first on TheGrio.
The sets at Kix were built on four tunes, with the band usually playing a medley of three of them each set. [10] " Kix" was a new tune named for the Boston club, [11] "Back-Seat Betty" and "Aïda" came from The Man with the Horn, and "My Man's Gone Now" was an adaptation of the Gershwin song that Davis had recorded in 1958 for the Gil Evans-orchestrated Porgy and Bess album. [11]