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Help?Alberta Adams has been singing the blues for the past 60 years and shows no sign of ever slowing down.Roberta Louise Osborne, is a Detroit blues, jump blues and Chicago blues singer born in Indianapolis, Indiana sometime in the early 1920s.She was raised in Detroit, Michigan by a relative, and got her break in the 1940s performing in a club on Hastings Street amidst other artists like John Lee Hooker.Her solo career really did not lift off ground until the 1990s, when she landed a contract with the now defunct Cannonball Records and recorded two albums for them, 1999s "Born With the Blues" and 2000s "Say Baby Say".This page was last modified on 30 December 2007, at 17:33.All text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License.Big band blues rock
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Launch Your Blues Career Today!Promote Your Band And Get Exposure.Classical events See our event calendar of listings."Blues music goes in and out of style but Alberta Adams has been ubiquitious with the blues in Detroit for over 50 years.She enjoys saying that she was born with the blues.She has certainly lived it.Detroit's Queen of the Blues."Alberta Adams shows no signs of slowin' down.Cassette)
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Phone: 850.Alberta Adams has been ubiquitous with the blues in Detroit for over 50 years.She enjoys saying that she was born with the blues.Bone Walker, James Moody and Duke Ellington and recorded extensively particularly in the jump type blues style that is her repertoire today.The grand dame of Detroit blues, Alberta Adams has been performing since the late 1930's.Born in the early 1920's in Indianapolis, Roberta Louise Osborne was raised by her aunt in Detroit.During one of her early shows she asked the manager of the club she was performing at if she could sing.He said "OK, but keep the dancing in."Adams says with a laugh."They'd bring in big name acts that couldn't follow me.""Big Joe Turner was it," she says, "and Dinah Washington, Sarah Vaughan and LaVern Baker, those were my girls.But Nobody taught me nothin' about singing.Her new recording in on Cannonball Records "Blues Across America: The Detroit Scene."No part of this publication may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopy, or any information storage or retrieval system, without permission in writing from the author.Growing up during the depression was not easy but Alberta gained a foothold in the booming Detroit entertainment industry as a dancer through her former husband Billy Adams.After she sang the only two songs she knew the manager, impressed with her strong voice, told her to learn some more tunes.She has been singing ever since.With a repertoire that consisted of jazz standards and the blues, Adams was soon creating quite a sensation.Adams admits to no single influence on either her singing or dancing styles although Big Joe Turner holds a special place in her heart.No part of this publication may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopy, or any information storage or retrieval system, without permission in writing from the author.Sorry, the page you're trying to reach is unavailable or the page may no longer exist.Click your browser's Refresh button to try reconnecting."Alberta Adams on MSN Music";s.
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