Etta James
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Following the show “MINGUS!”, a new project dedicated to Etta James comes to life. The text is inspired by the autobiography of the great jazz, blues, soul, and rhythm & blues singer, titled Rage to Survive: The Etta James Story, co-authored with David Ritz. The performance creates a stage symbiosis between theater and live music. “Her singing was an instrument of overwhelming power, but her speaking voice was even stronger. She spoke as she sang. Her opinions were extreme; she loved and hated with pure passion. Her language was a firestorm of emotions. Her slang, thoroughly Black. She could talk as soft as a cat or as rough as a grizzly. Her landscape was vast—South Central Los Angeles, San Francisco, Alabama, Alaska, Europe, Harlem, Gold Coast, and Chicago’s South Side. Her word-images exploded with violence, sex, and above all, music.”