Detroit rhythm and blues singer Bettye Lavette had a couple of hit records in the 1960s. After that, she disappeared from the charts, but that doesn't mean she stopped working and recording. On her ...

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 ...

“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 ...

SM PIER — Despite the cancellation of former Rolling Stone Mick Taylor for next week’s Twilight Dance Series, concert organizers have secured soul singer Bettye LaVette to take his place during the ...

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 ...

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 ...

Last month Blondshell, aka Sabrina Teitelbaum, released the eagerly anticipated follow-up to her raw and exposed 2023 self-titled debut. The result, “If You Asked for a Picture,” is alive with a more ...

LITTLE ROCK — The superlative soul singer Bettye LaVette grew up in Detroit's north end, near Smokey Robinson, Aretha Franklin and the Four Tops. But as her friends became famous, LaVette's career ...

Jan. 11: The veteran soul singer Bettye LaVette, who can suggest a heartbroken wail through a whisper and make a slow ballad pulse like scorching gospel rock. With the blues guitarist John Hammond.