Singer, songwriter and producer Betty Davis passed away on Wednesday, February 9 in her hometown of Homestead, Pennsylvania. She was 77 years old. In addition to her own musical contributions, Betty ...

Betty Davis — the groundbreaking funk diva who influenced a generation of genre-defying performers such as Joi, Erykah Badu and Janelle Monae — is among the list of Black female singers to be ...

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Singer-songwriter-producer Betty Davis, an icon of future-funk, fashion and bold sexuality in the 1970s, died Wednesday at age 76 in her longtime home of Homestead, Pennsylvania. Davis, who was once ...

NEW YORK (AP) — Betty Davis, a bold and pioneering funk singer, model, and songwriter of the 1960s and '70s who was credited with inspiring then-husband Miles Davis' landmark fusion of jazz and more ...

Danielle Maggio, a close friend of the singer, confirmed the musician's death to Rolling Stone. Amie Downs, communications director for Allegheny County where Davis lived, told the magazine that Davis ...

For a few short years in the 1970s, no one made funk as raw as Betty Davis did. She sang bluntly about sex on her own terms, demanding satisfaction with feral yowls and rasps, her voice slicing across ...

Betty Davis was the evidence of cool hoped for and the proof of funk felt. The musician, who died on Wednesday at 77, was the subject of a 2017 documentary, “Betty: They Say I’m Different,” but her ...

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