Rage To Survive: The Etta James Story
By (Author) David Ritz
By (author) Etta James
Hachette Books
Da Capo Press Inc
5th June 2003
5th June 2003
United States
General
Non Fiction
Biography: arts and entertainment
781.64092
Paperback
304
Width 152mm, Height 228mm, Spine 22mm
330g
Here is the story of perhaps the finest soul singer of the rock era--Etta James. . One of the great women of American music, equally at home singing blues and jazz, Etta regales us with tales of her chaotic childhood, the stars she has known, and her troubled trip to stardom in this mesmerizing autobiography.
"Etta Tells It Like It Is. Couldn'T Put The Thing Down. Great Book!"
David Ritz is the author of Faith in Time: The Life of Jimmy Scott, Divided Soul: The Life of Marvin Gaye, and many other books with or about Ray Charles, Aretha Franklin, and B.B. King. He is a three-time winner of the Ralph J. Gleason Music Book Award. He lives in Los Angeles.