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Patricia Louise Holte (born May 24, 1944), [1] known professionally as Patti LaBelle, is an American R&B singer and actress. She has been referred to as the "Godmother of Soul". [2] LaBelle began her career in the early 1960s as lead singer and frontwoman of the vocal group Patti LaBelle and the Bluebelles.
Labelle was an American funk rock band that originated out of the Blue Belles, a girl group who were a popular vocal group of the 1960s and 1970s. The original group was formed after the disbanding of two rival girl groups in the area around Philadelphia, in Pennsylvania, and Trenton, in New Jersey: the Ordettes and the Del-Capris, forming as a new version of the former group, then later ...
The group was known as The Blue Belles (a.k.a. Patti La Belle and Her Blue Belles; Patti LaBelle and the Bluebelles) from 1962 to 1970, changing their name to simply Labelle in 1971. Studio albums [ edit ]
Recalling her time with the Bluebelles -- previously known as the Blue Belles and later called LaBelle -- the 77-year-old touched on how the group was groundbreaking during their musical reign.
So that's what the project will be called, and that's what my tour is called. 8065!" Patti LaBelle performs at the Bass Concert Hall in Austin, Texas, June 19, 2023.
This is the discography documenting albums and singles released by the American female vocal group Labelle.The group was known as The Ordettes from 1958 to 1961 and The Blue Belles (a.k.a. Patti La Belle and Her Blue Belles; Patti LaBelle and the Bluebelles) from 1962 to 1970, changing their name to simply Labelle in 1971.
The Labelle version also appears in several films, including The Long Kiss Goodnight, Dick, and Jacob's Ladder. It was used in the video game Karaoke Revolution Volume 2 in a new version performed by Patti LaBelle. Billboard ranked the song at number sixteen on their list of the "100 Greatest Girl Group Songs of All Time". [24]
This article originally appeared in the April 1986 issue of SPIN. There are at least three different people running around inside Patti LaBelle. At least three. Sometimes they merge and confuse ...