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Etta James
January 25, 1938 -
Nationality: American
Category: Musician
Subcategory: American Musician

This is an album of songs that I've always loved, tunes that I heard. For the first time in 53 years of recording, I really had control over an entire album, start to finish.

   

My mother always told me, even if a song has been done a thousand times, you can still bring something of your own to it. I'd like to think I did that.

   

That's where it begins and ends for me and these songs were the ones that touched me the deepest. It was like I was laying hold of some part of me that I didn't even know was there until I let it out.

   

You can't fake this music. You might be a great singer or a great musician but, in the need, that's got nothing to do with it. It's how you connect to the songs and to the history behind them.

   

I wanna show that gospel, country, blues, rhythm and blues, jazz, rock 'n' roll are all just really one thing. Those are the American music and that is the American culture.

   

It's the same thing now. When I go onstage the young people scream and holler as much as the older generation.

   

I figured I could do It's A Man's Man's Man's World, because I believe it's the truth.

   

I sing the songs that people need to hear.

   

But even so, I still get nervous before I go onstage.

   

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