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Fontella Bass (born July 3, 1940, St. Louis, Missouri)
Happy 70th Birthday!
Happy 70th Birthday!
... Bass was the daughter of gospel vocalist Martha Bass, a longtime member of the renowned Clara Ward Singers. ...
...By 16, Bass was the house pianist at the St. Louis nightspot the Showbar, and in 1961 she joined local blues great Little Milton Campbell, later marrying the band's trumpeter, fledgling jazz titan Lester Bowie....
...in 1990 she teamed with her mother and brother David Peaston for a gospel LP, Promises: A Family Portrait of Faith. Bass continued her return to spiritual music with the 1995 Nonesuch release No Ways Tired, touring Europe regularly in the years leading up to the 2001 appearance of her follow-up outing, Travellin', a collaboration with the Voices of St. Louis gospel choir issued on the Canadian indie Justin Time.
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