Blues Legend Etta James Died at 73

The blues singer Etta James is dead, the musician died, according to the CNN on Friday in a hospital in Riverside, near Los Angeles to blood cancer. On Wednesday, she would have become 74 years old.

James’ greatest success was the title of “At Last” in 1961. When James took up the song, he was already 20 years old. She made the piece from the Glenn Miller music film “Orchestra Wives” but a worldwide hit. It’s about some concerns and needs, but when the lover comes, ultimately, just “at last” that ends well.

Hans Zimmer used the song for the soundtrack of the Oscar success of “Rain Man”. Dozens of times the song was nachgesungen, the most successful ten years ago by Celine Dion. “At Last” is not only a classic in American weddings. Even Barack and Michelle Obama danced three years ago on the balls of the inauguration of the new U.S. president her first dance to Etta James.

Jamesetta Hawkins was discovered as a young girl by Johnny Otis. The blues-rock musician and advised her to make the two halves of one of her first name and stage name helped her first contract. But it was only successful in the sixties. In the next decade, they had little success and drug problems, but it evolved to an American classic. In the movie “Cadillac Records” from 2009, she was played by Beyonce Knowles. James died on Friday only three days after their discoverer, Johnny Otis (90).