Betty LaVettes 40 year career

 Bettye LaVette has quietly carved out a 40-year career of soul and is enjoying a rebirth of her singing career.

This year 2004, The Blues Foundation selected the 58-year-old LeVette's "A Woman Like Me" as Blues Comeback Album of the Year.

In a phone interview, she said, "I'm actually a child of rhythm and blues. I've only been recognized as a blues singer over the last year or so."

Growing up in Detroit, LaVette went to high school and lived down the street from kids like Smokey Robinson who were eventually to become the legends of Detroit's Motown Records label. She cut her first record at 16 for Johnnie Mae Matthews, an important figure in the rhythm and blues scene in...

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