“I may be the only Black singer who didn’t start out by singing in church,” says renowned R&B singer Bettye LaVette. “There was a jukebox in our living room and my parents would sit me on top of it ...

Bettye LaVette has sung on Broadway, been nominated for a Grammy and performed for President Obama. On her latest album, she reinterprets songs by the likes of Led Zeppelin, The Beatles, Pink Floyd ...

“When I was younger I wanted to sound like Etta James or Doris Day,” Bettye LaVette says. “Sounding like yourself is easy.” Bettye LaVette, shown above in 1970, was in her fourth decade of making ...

Last time Bettye LaVette rolled through Chicago, she performed in front of roughly 60,000 people, opening one of the Rolling Stones’ June 2024 concerts at Soldier Field. By comparison this concert at ...

In a wide-ranging interview ahead of her May 16 performance at the Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center, soul legend Bettye LaVette opens up about her six-decade career in music, interpreting the lyrics of ...

Bettye LaVette is a singer with over 60 years in the game. She's recorded dozens of albums with record labels like Atlantic, Motown and more. Since the early 2000s, Bettye's released a series of ...

With a career that spans over 60 years, Bettye Lavette is a “Soul Survivor.” She burst onto the Detroit scene in 1962 with her single My Man—He's a Loving Man. Her single climbed to #7 on the R&B ...

In a just world, Bettye Lavette would be headlining MVP Arena in Albany on Saturday night instead of Caffe Lena. She would have toured with the Rolling Stones this year instead of doing one song with ...

Bettye LaVette moves more sitting down than most people do running. LaVette began her hour-and-23-minute set at Caffe Lena last Saturday night with a song that had the intensity of a third encore. In ...

Bettye LaVette is widely — and wisely — revered as one of our greatest living rhythm and blues singers, and maybe right there at the pinnacle. Her star as a knock-down, drag-out, leave-no-prisoners ...

Piano bars, day-cruise entertainers and six seasons of "American Idol" have done irreparable harm to the reputation of the cover song, but soul singer Bettye LaVette brings respect back to the remake ...

Veteran singer Bettye LaVette doesn't listen to music. Yet she has become one of our foremost interpreters of contemporary songs. Think of her rendition of the Who's "Love, Reign o'er Me" at the 2008 ...