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Folk performer Odetta sings at the New Orleans Jazz Festival in this 1978. Odetta, the folk singer with the powerful voice who moved audiences and influenced fellow musicians for a half-century, died Tuesday. She was 77. (AP photo, file)
AP photo, file
American folk music legend Odetta dies at 77
Folk performer Odetta sings at the New Orleans Jazz Festival in this 1978. Odetta, the folk singer with the powerful voice who moved audiences and influenced fellow musicians for a half-century, died Tuesday. She was 77.