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I think that it would not be overstating things to say that for fans of the music we call soul, this has been an absolute motherfucker of a week. I mean, as we have discussed previously, we are in the midst of an era when these sad events will be coming with increasing frequency, but the inevitability of age doesn’t make these losses any easier to take. Born Jamesetta Hawkins in Los Angeles in 1938, she first recorded (discovered by none other than Johnny Otis ) in 1954 and hit the top of the charts in 1955 with ‘The Wallflower’ (aka Dance With Me Henry) in 1955. She remained on the charts, both R&B and Pop, through the 50s, 60s and 70s, wrestling on and off with heroin addiction, yet still making some remarkably powerful records.