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Odetta
Click the photo for her video interview |
Legendary GRAMMY-nominated vocalist and musician Odetta Holmes Gordon (Sept. 31, 1930 – Dec. 2, 2008),
best known to the world as Odetta, joined the GRAMMY Foundation in 2003
for a poignant and candid interview on her life and musical journey.
This trailblazer and human rights activist, often referred to as "The
Voice of the Civil Rights Movement," leaves a legacy of music,
matched equally by her humanitarian efforts that served to advance
a culture and generation. One of the most influential folk singers
of her time, she paved the way for many historical figures from that genre including Joan Baez and Bob Dylan.
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GRAMMY Living
Histories includes Ahmet Ertegun, founder of Atlantic Records |
The Foundation's Living Histories program preserves on videotape
the life stories of key recording industry professionals and visionaries
who helped create the history of recorded sound. Comprehensive biographies
and personal anecdotes of creative, business and technical music
professionals weave a picture of the recording industry from the
perspective of those who played integral roles in its development.
Individual oral histories and profiles of pioneers, companies, cities,
communities and other entities that have impacted the evolution
of the music industry, comprise the three tiers of this ongoing
endeavor. This footage is available for research purposes and is
utilized by the GRAMMY Foundation and its partner organizations
to develop educational video programs that tell the unique stories
of our musical history through the unfiltered voices of the original
participants. Such programs include the "Story Of Nashville
Songwriting: 1955-1975," which describes the convergence of
artistic passion, geographic proximity and business opportunity
that helped make Nashville America's songwriting capital. The "Sounds
Of Memphis" is a first-person narrative account of the evolution
of Memphis into the Birthplace of Rock and Roll, the Home of the
Blues and Soulsville, USA. Nearly 200 Living Histories have been
completed documenting the life stories of artists, producers, technology
pioneers, executives, songwriters and other important figures that
created the history of recorded sound.
For more information, please contact kellyd@grammy.com
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