Odetta left the theater company in 1950 and took a job at a folk club in San Francisco. She soon began to tour and recorded her first album, “The Tin Angel,” in 1954. She soon caught the attention of ...

Odetta, who died on December 2 aged 77, was one of the most influential singers to emerge during the renaissance of American folk music in the 1950s. 03 December 2008 • 1:56pm Odetta gave life to the ...

Odetta, the classically trained folk, blues and gospel singer who used her powerfully rich and dusky voice to champion African-American music and civil rights issues for more than half a century ...

Lewis and Boehm are Times staff writers. Odetta, the classically trained folk, blues and gospel singer who used her powerfully rich and dusky voice to champion African American music and civil rights ...

When Barack Obama won the US presidential election last month, he had no doubts about who he wanted to sing at his inauguration. By then confined to a wheelchair and fighting heart disease, Odetta – ...