rediscovered in the 2000s, the artist, who distinguished himself by his texts to the affirmed femininity, carried by a voice to the raging and sensual expressiveness, died on February 9 at the age of 77 years. .
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Afro, small high and steep minishort, brilliant boots … when Betty Davis arrives, on the evening of July 25, 1976 on the scene of the Riviera festival, organized at the PAUL-RICARD automobile circuit, on the heights of Castellet (Var) , the pace and the nervous funk of the American singer settle in a program basically devoted to the hero of the jazz fusion (Shakti de McLaughlin, Larry Coryell, Tony Williams …) with some reggae trips (Jimmy Cliff) and Salsa (Eddie Palmieri).
In our memory, the provision of the singer, including death, at the age of 77, of natural causes, at his home of Homestead (Pennsylvannie), near Pittsburgh, was announced Wednesday 9 February, had been a bad nothing with some bursts, leaving a good part of the public circumspect. Little knew that Betty Davis had been the wife of the Trumpet player Miles Davis, at the end of 1968 at the end of 1969, and especially had three albums, Betty Davis (1973), they say I’m different (1974), for the modest phonographic company Just Sunshine Records, and Nasty Gal (1975), for the most famous Island Records.
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Three commercial failures which, carefully reissued in 2007 and 2009 by the company Light in the Attic, will have aroused a rediscovery of Betty Davis, attributing a retrospective status of pioneer, as much by the texts of his songs on the affirmation Feminine, often sexually explicit, only by its desire to impose its artistic views to its producers of records and concerts. After the death of his father, in 1980, she knew a depressive period, which she had mentioned in a few words in an article by Keith L. Alexander for The Washington Post, in September 2018, and withdrew from public life.
Born July 16, 1944 in Durham (North Carolina), Betty Davis, born Mabry, is raised in a rural environment, before the family settles in Pittsburgh or his father works in steel companies. Teenager, she writes some songs. She goes to live with an aunt in New York, at the age of 16, having got a place in a technical high school of design and styling. She poses for fashion photos, participates in parades. She recorded a 45-tours, probably at the end of 1964, on the title, Get Ready for Betty (“Be ready for Betty”), meet various musicians, including Jimi Hendrix and Sly Stone, place in 1967 his Uptown (to Harlem) on The first album of the group The Chamber Brothers.
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