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Ruth Alston Brown ( née Weston; January 12, 1928 [2] [3] [4] – November 17, 2006) was an American singer-songwriter and actress, sometimes referred to as the " Queen of R&B ".
Oct 1, 2014 · Music video by Ruth Brown performing Hey Mama, He Treats Your Daughter Mean (Live).
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Ruth Brown was an American singer and actress, who earned the sobriquet “Miss Rhythm” while dominating the rhythm-and-blues charts throughout the 1950s. Her success helped establish Atlantic Records (“The House That Ruth Built”) as the era’s premier rhythm-and-blues label.
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Ruth Brown, the gutsy rhythm and blues singer whose career extended to acting and crusading for musicians’ rights, died on Friday in Las Vegas. She was 78 and lived in Las Vegas.
Ruth Brown, the R&B pioneer, had reinvented herself as an actress and a singer who escaped classification. In 1987 Brown starred in Allen Toussaint's off-Broadway musical Staggerlee; in 1989she won a Tony for Best Actress in a Musical for the Broadway revue Black and Blue.
Oct 23, 2017 · Ruth Brown was R&B's first major star; in fact, rhythm and blues as a genre was born at almost the same moment Brown released her first single.
Ruth Brown was one of the first artists signed by Atlantic founders Ahmet Ertegun and Herb Abramson. In the course of 10 years, Ruth Brown made the Billboard R&B charts with 24 of the more than 80 sides she recorded for Atlantic.
