Sister Rosetta Tharpe

Sister Rosetta Tharpe ( March 20 1915 - October 9 1973 ) was an American singer, composer and guitarist. In the thirties and forties of the twentieth century Tharpe became known for her unique interpretation of gospel music; she gave it a unique touch by text spirituals combined with a rhythmic (rock) guidance. [1] [2] [3] .

Rosetta dared the line between "sacred" and "profane" break; she brought her interpretations of spirituals as well performed in nightclubs and in the church. Tharpe is also affects the emergence of pop-gospel music. [1]  Even though Sister Rosetta shocked her trips to the pop music some of the more conservative churchgoers, gospel music has never left them.

With her ​​music she had influence on rock and roll artists such as Little Richard , Johnny Cash , Elvis Presley and Jerry Lee Lewis [4] . Rightly, therefore, the title of a BBC documentary about her career: "The Godmother of Rock n 'Roll: Sister Rosetta Tharpe" [5] .



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 ==[Early  life and career Edit ]  == She was born Rosetta Nubin in Cotton Plant, Arkansas, United States. Her parents, Katie Bell Nubin and Willis Atkins once were cotton pickers. About her father little is known, but we know that he sang. Tharpes mother, Katie Bell Nubin, was a singer, played mandolin and was preacher for the Church of God in Christ, a denomination started by Charles Mason in 1894. This church was rhythmic musical expression, dancing and preaching encouraged by women. With the support of her mother begins Tharpe from the age of four singing and playing guitar. When she was six, traveling Tharpe, who did "Little Rosetta Nubin, the singing and guitar playing miracle" <sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-last.fm_2-1" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[2] is mentioned, along with her ​​mother from the American South; here they give performances that are part sermon, part gospel concert. <sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-biography_6-0" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[6] <sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-allmusic_1-2" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[1]
 * 1 Early life and career
 * 2 Career
 * 3 Dead
 * 4 Approval
 * 5 Musical Influence
 * 5.1 Recent recordings
 * 6 Discography
 * 6.1 Albums
 * 6.2 Hits Ingels (United States)

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px;">In the mid-twenties choose Tharpe and her mother Chicago as home town. They occur in the Church of God in Christ, located at 40th Street and travel to church conventions in the country. In this way, acquires Tharpe considerable attention as a musical prodigy. She stands out at a time when black female guitarists are rare. In 1934, Rosetta is 19, she married Thomas Thorpe, a priest of the Church of God in Christ, a man who often went with Rosetta and her mother during performances. Even though the marriage was short, Rosetta does take a modified version of his name on the stage name: Sister Rosetta Tharpe, a name she spent the rest of her career will continue to use. In 1938 Tharpe leaves her husband and moves to New York, along with her ​​mother. <sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-biography_6-1" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[6] ==<span class="mw-editsection" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[Career  edit <span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] == <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px;">October 31, 1938, Rosetta has 23 Tharpe takes four singles for Decca Records in the background "Lucky" Millinder's jazz orchestra <sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-gayle_3-1" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[3] . The first gospel songs ever recorded by Decca, "Rock Me," "That's All," "My Man and I" and "The Lonesome Road", instantly become a hit. Tharpe is the first commercially successful gospel artist. <sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-biography_6-2" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[6]

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px;">She became even more famous after performing with jazz artist Cab Calloway at the Cotton Club in October 1938 and the action with John Hammond in the Carnegie Hall on December 23, 1938. These performances were for different reasons both controversial as revolutionary. Boosting gospel music for a secular nightclub audience and then also with blues and jazz musicians and dancers was highly unusual.Inside conservative religious circles were also looked down on that made a woman guitar and she also did on such "worldly" stages. This Tharpe became ever from grace of groups within the gospel. <sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-biography_6-3" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[6]  <sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-bbc_5-1" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[5]

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px;">It is said that Tharpe had little impact on what they might record while she was under contract with Millinder. She sings the song "Tall Skinny Papa," a bawdy song that has little to do with spirituality. It became a huge hit. <sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-bbc_5-2" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[5]  She then returns to the gospel. In the forties enters Rosetta lot with "The Dixie Hummingbirds" as supporting act and, before that shocking, from the white-male singing group "The Jordanaires" <sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-bbc_5-3" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[5]  .

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px;">The song "Strange Things Happening Every Day" from 1944, which she recorded with Sammy Price was the first gospel album that "crossover" was (was included in more than one chart); it achieved in April 1945, the second in the race records -list, the chart later the R & B-list to be called <sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-7" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[7] <sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-allmusic_1-3" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[1]  .

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px;">After World War II record company Decca Tharpe links to Marie Knight. Their hit "Up Above My Head" Knight takes care of the second voice in this traditional call and response compositing. Some years, the two women, who also have a relationship, a success in the gospel circuit. As Knights mother dies in a fire, Rosetta will only continue. As a publicity stunt married Rosetta in 1951 with Russell Morrison, who alongside her husband also her manager would be. 25,000 people are attracted to the public in the marriage "Griffith Stadium" in Washington, followed by action. <sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-bbc_5-4" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[5]

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px;">Rosetta's career hit in the doldrums, according to Anthony Heilbut because she does not know how to innovate: occurs in the fifties they still songs that she sang in the thirties; Rosetta has become an "oldies act".With husband Russell and her mother Rosetta moves to a small house in Philadelphia. <sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-bbc_5-5" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[5]  This is followed by new success. In 1957, Tharpe booked by jazz trombonist Chris Barber for a tour of a month by the United Kingdom. It is a success. Tharpe finds new fans in Europe. In 1964, Rosetta is touring Europe with the "Blues and Gospel Caravan", including Muddy Waters and Otis Spann, Ransom Know Ling, Little Willie Smith, Reverend Gary Davis, Cousin Joe , Sonny Terry and Brownie McGhee . <sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-bbc_5-6" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[5] ==Death <span class="mw-editsection" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[  edit <span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] == <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px;">In 1970 gets Tharpe, who suffers from diabetes, stroke and hits a leg lost. In 1973, after a new stroke, dies Sister Rosetta. <sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-bbc_5-7" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[5]  She is buried in "Northwood Cemetery" in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. <sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-8" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[8] ==<span class="mw-editsection" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[Recognition  edit <span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] == ==Musical influence <span class="mw-editsection" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[  edit <span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] == ===Recent shots <span class="mw-editsection" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[  edit <span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] === ==<span class="mw-editsection" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[Discography  edit <span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] == ===<span class="mw-editsection" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[Albums  edit <span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] === <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px;">The complete works of Sister Rosetta Tharpe recordings to 1961 is issued as a sevenfold CD box by the French label FREMEAUX & Associés. ===Hits Ingels (United States) <span class="mw-editsection" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[  edit <span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] ===
 * Sister Rosetta Tharpe was incorporated in 2007 into the Blues Hall of Fame .
 * On 15 July 1998 the United States Postal Service issued a stamp from 32 cents bearing Sister Rosetta <sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-9" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[9] .
 * January 11 has been declared "Sister Rosetta Tharpe Day" in Pennsylvania <sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-bbc_5-8" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[5]  .
 * 35 years after her death has placed a tombstone in 2008, partly financed by a charity <sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-10" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[10] .
 * Down By The Riverside (1948) was recorded in 2004 in the National Recording Registry, on the grounds that Tharpe many gospel, jazz and rock musicians influenced, with the song "Down by the Riverside" Tharpes unique voice and lively guitar playing good shows and thus its influence on early rhythm and blues artists <sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-11" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[11] .
 * Little Richard called Sister Rosetta his favorite artist as a child. In 1945 Rosetta heard shortly before a concert in the "Macon City Auditorium," Richard sing two of her gospel songs. During the concert invites Rosetta Richard out to sing on stage; then she pays him <sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-white_12-0" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[12] Jerry Lee Lewis Tharpe labeled as rock 'n' roll artist and Elvis Presley loved Sister Rosetta <sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-biography_6-4" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[6]  .
 * Johnny Cash called Rosetta his favorite artist <sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-popmatters.com_4-1" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[4] .
 * Tina Turner called Sister Rosetta alongside Mahalia Jackson as one of her first musical inspirations <sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-13" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[13] .
 * The French film Amélie contains a scene in which the neighbor of the protagonist mesmerized watching include a performance of "Up Above My Head" by Tharpe.
 * The British band Alabama 3 took their own version of "Up Above My Head" and called a number on their debut album "Exile on Coldharbour '" Sister Rosetta ".
 * The English indie rock band The Noisettes put the song "Sister Rosetta (Capture the Spirit)" on their album "What's the Time Mr. Wolf?" 2007.
 * In 2007, Alison Krauss and Robert Plant 's song "Sister Rosetta Goes Before Us" by, written by Sam Phillips, who recorded it in 2008.
 * Gospel Singer Michelle Shocked opens her live album "ToHeavenURide" in 2007 with the song "Strange Things Happening Every Day".
 * In 2003, a tribute album "Shout, Sister, Shout: A Tribute to Sister Rosetta Tharpe."
 * The Lonesome Road, Decca 224 (1941)
 * Blessed Assurance, (1951)
 * Wedding Ceremony Of Sister Rosetta Tharpe and Russell Morrison, DeccaDA-903, (1951)
 * Gospel Train (1956)
 * Famous Negro Spirituals and Gospel Songs (1957)
 * Sister Rosetta Tharpe, MGM E3821 (1959)
 * Sister Rosetta Tharpe, Omega OSL31, (1960)
 * Gospels In Rhythm (1960)
 * Live in 1960 (1960)
 * The Gospel Truth with the Bally Jenkins Singers (1961)
 * Sister Rosetta Tharpe, Crown LP5236, (1961)
 * Sister On Tour (1962)
 * Live In Paris (1964)
 * Live at the Hot Club de France (1966)
 * Sister Rosetta Tharpe Gospel Negro and the Hot Gospel Tabernacle Choir and Players (1967)
 * Precious Memories, Savoy 14214 (1968)
 * Singing In My Soul, Savoy 14224, (1969)