Odetta
Americannoun
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Odetta Holmes, 1930–2008, U.S. folk singer.
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a female given name.
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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
Special guest Odetta Holmes, the influential singer and human rights activist, performed with Belafonte — an episode that can be watched online today.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 6, 2022
A year later, Leon Bibb, a less-wellknown Black folk singer who was a mentor to Odetta, added another line to the song—“They hunted him with hounds”—which dispels any doubt about what happened to our convict.
From Slate ● Dec. 7, 2021
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
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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