Odetta
Americannoun
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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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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
The show highlights a makeshift sisterhood of artists, with Mary Clayton mentored by Odetta, Hendryx mentored by Nina Simone, and Khan reaching back to Staples.
From Seattle Times • Jul. 8, 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
A year later the partner died, and Murray and his wife, Odetta, decided to use the property for a hotel.
From "Hidden Figures" by Margot Lee Shetterly
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