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Her 1963 album Etta James Rocks the House, which was cut at Nashville's New Era club, also gave her career a boost. She had other big hits in the 1960s, but mainly on the R&B charts. The song Pushover was a hit for her in 1963. Etta James. Singer, songwriter. Etta James was once among the most woefully overlooked figures in the history of blues and rock. She began finally coming into her own in the 1990s, receiving industry awards that confirmed her status as one of the matriarchs of modern music. James is the winner of four Grammys and seventeen Blues Music Awards. She was inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame in 1993, the Blues Hall of Fame in 2001, and the Grammy Hall of Fame both in 1999 and 2008. In the 1950s and 60s, she had her biggest success as a blues and R&B singer. It was that year that the young singer became Etta James (an shortened version of her first name) and her vocal group was dubbed the Peaches (also Etta's nickname). Soon after, James launched her solo career with such hits as Good Rockin' Daddy in 1955. James's sons also acknowledged that Etta's health was declining and was receiving care at her Riverside, California, home. Etta James died at her home in Riverside, California, on January 20, 2012. Today, she continues to be is considered one of music's most dynamic singers. Etta James sang blues, jazz, country, gospel and pop hits beginning in the early 1950s, from the suggestive dancehall favorite Roll With Me, Henry to her signature ballad At Last.. She grew up in Los Angeles and San Francisco and began singing professionally when she was a teenager. In 1974, when Donto James was 6, he went to visit his mother, R&B icon Etta James, in the Tarzana Psychiatric Hospital after she’d been sentenced to drug treatment instead of prison on a heroin charge. Etta James through the years – Etta James, here performing at the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival in 2009, died Friday, January 20, due to complications from leukeimia, said her longtime friend and manager, Lupe De Leon. The singer was 73. Three-time Grammy winner singer Etta James, a pioneer of 1950s rhythm-and-blues and rock music known for her show-stopping hit At Last, died on Friday 20 January at the age of 73.
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