“Bettye LaVette…Her voice is elegance and abandon, complete control and total chaos…the best definition of a soul singer since Janis Joplin and Tina Turner,” says ESQUIRE. “Bettye LaVette’s voice is like an authentic beacon in a world of artifice,” states JAMES TAYLOR. “LaVette is the most emotive, emotional singer in the R&B world,” claims the MINNEAPOLIS STAR TRIBUNE.
6x-GRAMMY® Award Nominated, Blues Hall of Famer and 5x-Blues Music Award-Winning Vocalist BETTYE LAVETTE won the 2020 & 2021 Blues Music Awards for "Soul Blues Female Artist of Year" and her album 'Blackbirds' was Nominated for a GRAMMY® Award in 2020 for "Best Contemporary Blues Album", while she also was inducted into the Blues Hall of Fame by the Blues Foundation that same year. Since 2002, she has released 8 albums, 5 of which have received GRAMMY® Award Nominations. Hailed by the New York Times as "one of the great soul interpreters of her generation", Bettye LaVette is a vocalist who can take any type of song and make it completely her own. In 2019, she was Nominated for 2 GRAMMY® Awards, one for "Best Americana Album" ('Things Have Changed'), and for the song "Don't Fall Apart On Me Tonight" for "Best Traditional R&B Performance". "Bettye is one of the most incredible R&B singers singing today...Bettye's a force of nature," says BONNIE RAITT.