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    Sister Rosetta Tharpe (born Rosetta Nubin, March 20, 1915 – October 9, 1973) was an American singer, songwriter and guitarist. She gained popularity in...
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  • The recording by Sister Rosetta Tharpe and Marie Knight was made on November 24, 1947, in New York City for Decca Records. Besides Tharpe (vocals, guitar)...
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  • Gospel Train (album) (category Sister Rosetta Tharpe albums)
    the gospel and R&B artist Sister Rosetta Tharpe. It was recorded in July 1956 and released in December the same year. Tharpe is accompanied on vocals by...
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  • the late 1930s for singer-guitarist Sister Rosetta Tharpe. After switching from acoustic to electric guitar, Tharpe released a more secular version of...
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  • famously, and influentially, recorded by Sister Rosetta Tharpe in 1944. Released as a single by Decca Records, Tharpe's version featured her vocals and electric...
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  • (1880–1954), and recorded by him (vocals and zither) in 1927. In 1938, Sister Rosetta Tharpe (1915–1973) recorded a gospel version of the song under the title...
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    Little Richard (category Pages using Sister project links with hidden wikidata)
    Lucky Millinder, and his favorite singer, Sister Rosetta Tharpe. In October 1947, Sister Rosetta Tharpe overheard the fourteen-year-old Richard singing...
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    for her work on the stage. In 2017, her performance as Sister Rosetta Tharpe in Marie and Rosetta earned her an Obie Award and a nomination for the Lucille...
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    acting debut in 2022, portraying "the Godmother of rock and roll" Sister Rosetta Tharpe in Baz Luhrman's biopic Elvis, and later made her Broadway debut...
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  • and roll had been defined, a Billboard record review described Sister Rosetta Tharpe's vocals on the upbeat blues song "Rock Me", by Lucky Millinder,...
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  • named after "Didn't It Rain", a traditional song popularized by Sister Rosetta Tharpe in 1948 and Mahalia Jackson in 1954. Written and published by Henry...
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  • Tharpe is a surname that may refer to: Sister Rosetta Tharpe (1915–1973) gospel singer and guitarist Jimmy G. Tharpe (1930–2008), Baptist clergyman Larry...
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  • as Tom Diskin Gary Clark Jr. as Arthur "Big Boy" Crudup Yola as Sister Rosetta Tharpe Natasha Bassett as Dixie Locke Xavier Samuel as Scotty Moore Adam...
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    Rock & Roll: Sister Rosetta Tharpe". BBC Four. May 24, 2011. Retrieved March 18, 2017. "Godmother of Rock and Roll: Sister Rosetta Tharpe". Black Culture...
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  • Sunset Four (aka The Sunset Jubilee Singers). Shortly afterwards, Sister Rosetta Tharpe saw her singing at the Golden Gate Auditorium in Harlem, on a bill...
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  • the Dinosaurs, Miraculous Mule (on Two Tonne Testimony (2017)), Sister Rosetta Tharpe, and The Dinner Is Ruined. Eagle, Bob L.; LeBlanc, Eric S. (2013)...
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  • Academy". GRAMMY.com. May 11, 2019. Retrieved October 26, 2019. "Sister Rosetta Tharpe, Isaac Hayes, John Prine & More To Be Honored With 2020 Lifetime...
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  • of famous recording artists, including Tammy Wynette, Bill Monroe, Rosetta Tharpe, Johnny Cash, Willie Nelson, Alan Jackson, Emmylou Harris, Daniel O'Donnell...
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  • Campesinos!, Hefner, Gorkys Zygotic Mynci, Bearsuit, Damon Albarn, Sister Rosetta Tharpe and Modest Mouse. The show follows an eighteen-year-old boy Willow...
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    National Public Radio wrote about the career of Sister Rosetta Tharpe and concluded with these comments: Tharpe "was a gospel singer at heart who became a...
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  • contributed to the gospel music publications of the early 20th century. Sister Rosetta Tharpe, pioneer of rock and roll, soon emerged from this tradition as the...
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  • Rosetta Stone (a pun on both the Rosetta Stone and gospel singer Sister Rosetta Tharpe), who has sent her love and the artwork she is making: fingerpaintings...
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    talents. Astaire's older sister Adele was an instinctive dancer and singer early in her childhood. Johanna planned a brother-and-sister act, common in vaudeville...
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    16, 1954) is an American musician. She rose to fame alongside her older sister Ann as guitarist and second vocalist in the rock band Heart. Raised in Bellevue...
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  • Industry (BPI). The Carter Family Marian Anderson Louis Armstrong Sister Rosetta Tharpe List of gospel songs which have reported sales of 1 million units...
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    Heart. Wilson has been a member of Heart since the early 1970s; her younger sister, Nancy Wilson, is also a member of the band. One of the first hard rock...
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  • Down") in a slower, African American gospel style and in 1946-7 by Sister Rosetta Tharpe with barrelhouse piano; the song in Ely's version was recorded (and...
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  • 2019. Monroy Yglesias, Ana (October 16, 2020). "From Chicago To Sister Rosetta Tharpe, Here's Who Was Honored At The 2020 GRAMMY Salute To Music Legends"...
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  • missionary and educator Rosetta Smith (1770–1775 — ca. 1825), Afro-Trinidadian slave trader and entrepreneur Sister Rosetta Tharpe (1915–1973), gospel and...
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    include Les Paul, Eddie Durham, George Barnes, Lonnie Johnson, Sister Rosetta Tharpe, T-Bone Walker, and Charlie Christian. During the 1950s and 1960s...
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