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Odetta, Voice of Civil Rights Movement, Dies at 77  —  Odetta, the singer whose deep voice wove together the strongest songs of American folk music and the civil rights movement, died on Tuesday at Lenox Hill Hospital in Manhattan.  She was 77.  —  The cause was heart disease, said her manager, Doug Yeager.

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US folk singer Odetta, a civil rights campaigner and major influence on Bob Dylan, dies aged 77.

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American folk singer and civil rights icon Odetta has died at 77, of heart disease:

"Odetta sang at coffeehouses and at Carnegie Hall, made highly influential recordings of blues and ballads, and became one of the most widely known folk-music artists of the 1950s and ’60s. She was a formative influence on dozens of artists, including Bob Dylan, Joan Baez and Janis Joplin. Her voice was an accompaniment to the black-and-white images of the freedom marchers who walked the roads of Alabama and Mississippi and the boulevards of Washington in the quest to end racial discrimination. Rosa Parks, the woman who started the boycott of segregated buses in Montgomery, Ala., was once asked which songs meant the most to her. She replied, 'All of the songs Odetta sings.' Odetta sang at the march on Washington, a pivotal event in the civil rights movement, in August 1963. Her song that day was 'O Freedom,' dating to slavery days: 'O freedom, O freedom, O freedom over me, And before I’d be a slave, I’d be buried in my grave, And go home to my Lord and be free.'"

The Boston Globe writes, in their obituary: "She was full of surprises in recent years, too. Indie-pop auteur Stephin Merritt recruited Odetta to sing 'Waltzing Me All the Way Home' on the 6ths album 'Hyacinths and Thistles' in 2000. He later said Odetta had told him she thought the song was about two gay black soldiers during World War II, which was news to Merritt."

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Odetta, the folk singer with the powerful voice who moved audiences and influenced fellow musicians for a half-century, has died. She was 77. Odetta died Tuesday (Dec. 2) of heart disease at New York's Lenox Hill Hospital, said her manager of 12 years, Doug Yeager.img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/BillboardNews-Daily/~4/473358698" height="1" width="1"/

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a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/03/arts/music/03odetta.html?hp"Odetta, folk singer and so much more, has died at age 77./a The NYT has the final word with a href="http://www.nytimes.com/packages/html/arts/20081203_odetta.html"Odetta/a. “You’re walking down life’s road, society’s foot is on your throat, every which way you turn you can’t get from under that foot. And you reach a fork in the road and you can either lie down and die, or insist upon your life.” br /

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