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Étta James was borne on January 25, 1938 in Los Angeles, California; her mom was just 14 years old at the age of 14, and she never knew her dad, although she would later say that she had good reasons to believe he was the well-known swimming pools dealer Minnesota Fats. St James was brought up by her family and family instead of her mom for most of her infancy, and while she lived with her grand-parents, she began to attend a Baptist congregation each year.
James' part made her a matter of course for the chorus, and despite her young years she became the group' s principal and performed with them on live radios. When she was 12 years old, after the deaths of her foster mom, James found herself with her mom in San Francisco, and under the watchful eye of a small grown-up, she began to fall into adolescent crime.
James's passion for making movies grew and grew, and with a couple of good old buddies she founded a vocal group known as Creolettes. The Peaches split up after a second R&B song, "Good Rockin' Daddy", and James went into business for himself. James' solos was a gradual entry, and she spends several years editing low-selling single tracks for modern and small nightclubs, until she was hired by Leonard Chess to sign a new recording contract in 1960.
She recorded for Chess Records and its subsidiaries Argo and Checker until the 1970s, and in collaboration with producer Ralph Bass and Harvey Fuqua, she recorded a musical genre that combined R&B's passions with those of jazzmusic, and achieved a number of hit songs for the company, among them "All I Could Do Was Cry", "My Dearest Darling" and "Trust in Me".
She was not doing so well while James was reborn; she started to experiment with narcotics as a teenage girl, and when she was 21 years old, she was a heroine fiend, and as the 1960s went on, she found it more and more hard to reconcile her habits with her careers, especially when she struggled with her Chess producer to get her emoluments, and struggled with a series of improper romance relations.
James' carreer collapsed in the mid 1960s, but in 1967 she began to record with Rick Hall at FAME Studios in Muscle Shoals, Alabama, and return to the R&B chart with the songs "Tell Mama" and "I'd Rather Go Blind". "By the early 1970s, James had again dropped off the chart, her obsession raged, and she turned to the small-scale criminality to reinforce her cadence.
Most of the 1970s brought a down-to-earth James through small nightclubs and casual blue festival, and she accepted for Chess with little achievement, despite the high standard of her work. 1978 the long-time Rolling Stones supporters honored James by invited her to open some shows for them on the road, and she joined Warner Bros. and cut the record Deep in the Nights with Jerry Wexler.
Not selling well, the record was met with rave reviews, reminding serious blue and R&B enthusiasts that James was still a power to be reckoned with. According to her own information, James reverted to narcotics dependence after getting mixed up with a man with a habitual disposition, and she went back to gambling clubs when and where she could, until she resigned thanks to a sojourn at Betty Ford Center in 1988.
In the same year James joined Island Records and edited a strong debut record, Seven Year Itch, made by Barry Beckett of the Muscle Shoals Rhythm Section. A respectable seller, James was firmly committed to keeping her record straight by performing and making regular shows and releasing Stickin' to My Guns in 1990 and The Right Times in 1992.