Bettye LaVette

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Bettye LaVette's Bio
“There are dozens of really top-drawer female Soul singers in what is a highly competitive field, but few can match the flawless totality of conveyed experience that Bettye LaVette never fails to achieve. She is the consummate artist who can relate on every level. Take Bettye LaVette away from Soul music’s history and there is a gap which no other person I can think of could have filled”. - Dave Godin, the late, esteemed English soul music writer/historian.
Bettye Lavette has always been a wonderful singer – I have been a huge fan for many years. To my delight and surprise she recorded an amazing version of “Talking Old Soldiers” – a song which nobody else has covered, and made it her own. Now she has recorded “Don’t Let the Sun Go Down On Me” and has done exactly the same. - Elton John 
When you hear a voice like Bettye LaVette’s there’s a sense of transportation (NOT to a penal colony!), but a certain freedom of movement and emotion, which is rare. A great record. Put me in the fan club! - Keith Richards
What a voice, and what a soul to compliment such a talent. I believe every word, as does everyone that has had the pleasure of hearing Bettye LaVette sing. -Joss Stone  
"Wow! I got chills when I listened to Bettye LaVette’s version of Choices.she is truly a ‘singer’s singer.”? - George Jones



"You've got a singer here who is willing to stretch and not content to live in the safety zone. " - Elvis Costello
"Ache has never sounded so funky. Weary, wise, defiant and vulnerable, Bettye's a force of nature." - Bonnie Raitt
"Ms. LaVette is one of the greatest soul singers in American music history" - Rob Bowman
"Is there any soul singer who brings more guts, more conviction and more emotion to her singing?" - NPR
“Is there a more wrenching soul singer alive than Bettye LaVette? If so, keep it to yourself, because I’m too wrung out from Crime’s intensity to take anything more emotionally potent.” - Entertainment Weekly
"Raw. Gritty. Gut wrenching.one of R&B's best kept secrets." - Billboard
“Though she’s gritty and loves to testify, she never overdoes it.” -The Village Voice
"Tortuous soul at it's most raw and almost frightening in it's intensity." - Juke Blues Magazine
"One of the very finest, most soul-drenched voices of any era." - In The Basement Magazine
“Bettye LaVette’s voice has the kind of earthy urgency that can’t be faked or taught.” – Nashville Scene
“LaVette is the most emotive, emotional singer in the R&B world.”- Minneapolis Star Tribune
"Perhaps the greatest unheralded soul singing mama on the earth today." - The Monterey Herald



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