The debut entry in what promises to be a series of audio releases recorded at the legendary Montreux Festival is a double disc from Etta James. As powerful a singer as James was on her illustrious ...

Etta James' performance of the enduring classic "At Last" was the embodiment of refined soul: Angelic-sounding strings harkened the arrival of her passionate yet measured vocals as she sang tenderly ...

NEW YORK (CBSNewYork/AP) - Blues legend Etta James has died. The 73-year-old had been hospitalized for breathing trouble. Her manager Lupe De Leon said James had been diagnosed with terminal leukemia.

FILE - This April 29, 2006 file photo shows the late vocalist Etta James during her performance at the 2006 New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival in New Orleans. James, who died on Jan. 20 at 73 will ...

Blues legend Etta James was given a powerful final send-off on Saturday, Jan. 28 at the Greater Bethany Community Church City of Refuge in Gardena, Calif., where family members and celebrity friends ...

Etta James takes her two musical sons, who are now 25 and 32, on tour with her to try to keep them from following her wild footsteps. When she went solo, several decades ago in her five-decade career, ...

2 of 6 — Rhythm and blues singer Etta James playing with her kitten at the hospital in 1974 where she was in therapy for a drug addiction. 3 of 6 — Muhammad Ali plays a few notes on the piano with ...

She was raised by Lula and Jesse Rogers, who owned the rooming house where her mother once lived in. The pair brought up James in the Christian faith, and as a young girl, her voice stood out in the ...

LOS ANGELES -- Etta James' performance of the enduring classic "At Last" was the embodiment of refined soul: Angelic-sounding strings harkened the arrival of her passionate yet measured vocals as she ...

FILE - In this April 29, 2006 photo, Etta James performs during the 2006 New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival in New Orleans. James, the feisty rhythm and blues singer whose raw, passionate vocals ...

Etta James, whose powerful, versatile and emotionally direct voice could enliven the raunchiest blues as well as the subtlest love songs, most indelibly in her signature hit, At Last, died Friday ...