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Etta James

American

January 25, 1938

Musician

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Country music has the great stories.

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But even so, I still get nervous before I go onstage.

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I like to shop, but I don't like to go out to dances.

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I'm not a braggart, but when I was a little girl people used to come from all over Hollywood to hear me sing.

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Johnny Guitar... just one of my favorite singers of all time. I met him when we were both on the road with Johnny Otis in the '50s when I was a teenager. We traveled the country in a car together. I would hear him sing every night.

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When I'm performing for the people, I am me, then. I am that little girl who, when she was five years old, used to sing at church. Or I'm that 15-year-old young lady who wanted to be grown and wanted to sing and couldn't wait to be smokin' a cigarette, you know?

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