Like other singers of his generation, Etta James (Los Angeles, 1938) has achieved a popularity that reaches beyond the black world. As Aretha Franklin and other black voices, Etta James takes his first steps as a singer in the bosom of the Baptist Church, and gospel and soul styles are first-timers.

In the fifties, travels to San Francisco where he joined with Johnny Otis, who becomes the lead singer of his band. He was there until the mid-sixties to consolidate its power in the rhythm and blues hits "Good Rocking Daddy" or the excellent "Something's Got to Holdd On Me." Seal "Chess" helped to consolidate with one or another quality as the album recorded in 1961

entitled "At Last", or recorded in 1968 for the same label, entitled "Tell Mama". After the demise of rhythm and blues, Etta James tried to stay on the charts in the seventies doing covers topics of pop groups like the "Eagles", but neither was his style, nor was unlucky in this attempt to steer his career pop music.

However, this magnificent singer, possessing a great voice and an incomparable theatrical force, recovered from the second half of the eighties its original splendor in 1994, he recorded a magnificent tribute to the singer, Billie Holiday in your disc for the label "Private Music" entitled "Mystery Lady" and the same year, did a live album in San Francisco, extraordinary.

Etta James, was unable to begin the twenty-first century better, because in 2001, was incorporated into the prestigious "Blues Hall of Fame", symbolic and honorary Olympus, where the best bluesman in the United States.