Raucous, outspoken and empowered, Davis, who died last week at 77, always knew what she wanted her music to be raw and she took control of her career in an era when few Black women could.
Raucous, outspoken and empowered, Davis, who died last week at 77, always knew what she wanted her music to be raw and she took control of her career in an era when few Black women could.
The incandescent, influential funk musician Betty Davis died on Wednesday. She made a string of albums in the mid-1970s that helped to shape stylish, Afrofuturist strains of funk and hip-hop.
Raucous, outspoken and empowered, Davis, who died last week at 77, always knew what she wanted her music to be raw and she took control of her career in an era when few Black women could.
One of my favorite recordings of Betty Davis isn't a song. In the summer of 1974, the funk singer/songwriter appeared on Al Gee's Rap N'