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  See Christina Aguilera Belt 'At Last' at Etta James' Funeral

  January 30, 2012 – Mourners gathered in Gardena, California, on Saturday for the funeral of Etta James, who died last week at age 73. As CNN reports, the Rev. …
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  Legendary Singer Etta James Dead at 73

  January 20, 2012 – When President Barack Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama took for the floor for their first dance at the 2009 inaugural ball, Beyoncé was singing "At Last." Such was the enduring cultural influence of Etta James, who recorded that strings-gleaming wedding staple in 1961 and who, CNN is reporting, has died at 73. "Soul's first queen," as SPIN called her last year, James passed away with her husband and two sons at her side, her  …
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• Etta James, 'The Essential Modern 
Records Collection' (Capitol/EMI)

  April 5, 2011 – Bleach-blonde blueswoman Jamesetta Hawkins shot to fame in 1955 at age 15 when she answered Hank Ballard's R&B hit "Work With Me, Annie" with "The Wallflower" and Bo ?Diddley's "I'm a Man" with ?"W-O-M-A-N," becoming something like the Roxanne Shanté of her day, a brassy, mouthy female taking no guff in a male-dominated field. …
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