BETTY DAVIS

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Betty Davis (née Mabry; July 16, 1944 – February 9, 2022) was an American singer, songwriter, and model best known for her controversial sexually-oriented lyrics and performance style, and for being the second wife of trumpeter Miles Davis. Her Allmusic profile describes her as "a wildly flamboyant funk diva with few equals... [who] combined the gritty emotional realism of Tina Turner, the futurist fashion sense of David Bowie, and the trendsetting flair of Miles Davis"

Betty Mabry (later Davis) was born in Durham, North Carolina, on July 16, in either 1944 or 1945. Davis developed an interest in music when she was about ten, and was introduced to various blues musicians by her grandmother, Beulah Blackwell, while staying at her farm in Reidsville. At 12, she wrote one of her first songs, "I'm Going to Bake That Cake of Love". The family relocated to Homestead, Pennsylvania, so Davis's father, Henry, could
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BETTY DAVIS Betty Davis album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Betty Davis
Funk 1973
BETTY DAVIS They Say I'm Different album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
They Say I'm Different
Funk 1974
BETTY DAVIS Nasty Gal album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Nasty Gal
Funk 1975
BETTY DAVIS Crashin' From Passion (aka Hangin' Out In Hollywood) album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Crashin' From Passion (aka Hangin' Out In Hollywood)
RnB 1995
BETTY DAVIS Is It Love Or Desire album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Is It Love Or Desire
Funk 2009
BETTY DAVIS The Columbia Years 1968-1969 album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
The Columbia Years 1968-1969
RnB 2016

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