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Sarah Dash — Labelle Founding Member and Keith Richards Collaborator — Dead at 76
Dash appeared on the group's ubiquitous 1975 dance floor classic “Lady Marmalade”
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'Lady Marmalade': Inside the Vampy, Gossip-Fueling 'Moulin Rouge' Remake, 20 Years Later
How Missy Elliott, producer Ron Fair and “four badass chicks from the Moulin Rouge” created a Number One smash that couldn’t be recaptured today
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Black Women Who Shaped Rock & Roll
These days, we take it for granted that Black women make up the vanguard of popular music. But decades before Beyoncé, Megan Thee Stallion, and Janelle Monáe, that was already the case — a fact that’s sometimes overlooked in standard histories of rock and its many related styles. In honor of Black History Month, we […]
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Iconic Photos by Bruce Talamon: From Chaka Khan and Stevie Wonder to Earth, Wind and Fire
Talamon's book, 'Bruce W. Talamon: Soul. R&B. Funk.' captures quiet moments with the biggest stars of Seventies soul
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Patti LaBelle on New Cooking Show: 'I Cook My Face Off, Honey'
Soul legend talks serving kale to Whoopi Goldberg, working with Christina Aguilera and singing about a "lady of the evening"
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Labelle Reunite - "Lady Marmalade" and All - For First Tour in Three Decades
Unpredictability reigned at the Oakland stop on Labelle’s first tour since its three soul queens split in 1976. After a surprise introduction from actor Danny Glover, a six-member band and three background vocalists joined the trio onstage at the Paramount Theatre in fiery, cymbal-splashed renditions of tracks from classic Labelle LPs like Nightbirds and last […]
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Nightbirds
"Space children, are there any others?" On their fourth album, Nightbirds, Labelle looked the future in the face and put out a call — who's coming along for the ride? With Patti LaBelle's strident, nasal bellow in the lead, the band had always dealt in sassy, loose-limbed structures; the three women's voices rolled over one […]
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Chameleon
Almost two years have passed since "Lady Marmalade," Labelle's voulez-vous coucher Creole hooker disco funk single, and it should be apparent that they're not going to record anything like a followup. Like Stevie Wonder, Labelle is more inclined to comment on the disco phenomenon than to capitalize on it; their ambition is to shuffle minds, […]
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