Odetta
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Odetta Holmes, 1930–2008, U.S. folk singer.
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a female given name.
Example Sentences
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Lee was a session bassist who has played on albums by Odetta, Woody Guthrie, Cat Stevens, Gordon Lightfoot, John Lee Hooker and Peter, Paul and Mary, among many others.
From Seattle Times • May 24, 2023
But people like me and Phil Ochs and Tom Paxton and Odetta — we were there, but it was quite different for us.
From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 21, 2022
He became totally enchanted by US folk singers like Odetta and Woody Guthrie, who he would later visit in a psychiatric hospital in New Jersey and play his own songs to him.
From BBC • May 23, 2021
The center had been brainstormed into existence by Mary Ann Pollar, a Bay Area concert promoter and good friend of luminaries like Nina Simone, Odetta, Maya Angelou, and James Baldwin.
From Slate • Sep. 14, 2020
Other times there would be Negro Spirituals sung by Odetta or folk songs rendered by Joan Baez, Pete Seeger, Cisco Houston, or Woody Guthrie.
From "The Great Santini" by Pat Conroy
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