womeninmusic

On this day in 1915, Sister Rosetta Tharpe, the "original soul sister" and "Godmother of rock and roll" was born.

"Rock 'n' roll was bred between the church and the nightclubs in the soul of a queer black woman in the 1940s named Sister Rosetta Tharpe."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y9a49oFalZE

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sister_Rosetta_Tharpe

https://www.npr.org/2017/08/24/544226085/forebears-sister-rosetta-tharpe-the-godmother-of-rock-n-roll

#music #history #MusicHistory #WomenInMusic #BlackWomen #BlackHistory #RockNRoll #RockMusic #OnThisDay #OTD #SisterRosettaTharpe

Nina Simone - High Priestess Of Soul

Saw this on my feed via @madvinyl and felt the need. Not Nina’s best (imho), with only one that she wrote, but her interpretations mean many moments of sheer genius on this. #soulMusic #jazz #blues #WomenInMusic #vinyl @vinylrecords

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