Patti LaBelle Biography, Age, Son, Songs, Tours and Interview

Patti Labelle Biography, Wiki

Patti LaBelle is an American singer, songwriter, actress, and businesswoman. LaBelle began her career in the early 1960s as lead singer and frontwoman of the vocal group, Patti LaBelle and the Bluebelles. Following the group’s name change to Labelle in the early 1970s, they released the iconic disco song “Lady Marmalade” and the group later became the first African-American vocal group to land the cover of Rolling Stone magazine. LaBelle is commonly identified as the “Godmother of Soul”.

Patti Labelle Age| Birthday

Patricia Louise Holte was born on May 24, 1944, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America. She celebrates her birthday on May 24th every year. Labelle turns 76 years old in 2020. Her nationality is American. LaBelle belongs to African-American ethnicity while Gemini is her zodiac sign.

Patti Labelle Height | Patti Labelle Weight

Labelle is a woman of average stature. She stands at a height of approximately 1.65 m. She also weighs massive 119 lbs.

Patti Labelle Family

LaBelle is the second youngest child of Holte family born to Henry Holte(father) and Bertha Holte(mother). Her father was a railroad worker and club performer while her mother was a domestic. Her parents’ marriage was abusive and even after their divorce, LaBelle at the age of 12, was sexually molested by a family friend.

Patti has four siblings: two brothers Thomas Hogan Jr.(b. 1930) and Vivian Hogan(1932-1975), and two sisters Barbara(1942-1982) and Jacqueline(1945-1989).

Patti Labelle Husband| Married

LaBelle is currently single. She was previously married to her husband, Armstead Edwards. Edwards turned to be LaBelle’s manager. The couple got married in 1969 and but got separated in 1990 and divorced in 2003. The couple together has a son named Zuri Kye Edwards born in 1973, who is now her current manager.

LaBelle also has two other child-like her sons: Dodd and Stanley. Previously around 1964, LaBelle was engaged to Otis Williams. Williams is the founding member of The Temptations.

Patti Labelle Son| Children

Labelle has a son named Zuri Kye Edwards who is currently her manager. She also has two other child-like her sons: Dodd and Stanley.

Patti Labelle Net Worth

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Patti LaBelle has enjoyed a long career in the entertainment industry spanning almost five decades. Through proceeds from her work as an artist, she has been able to accumulate a modest fortune. Labelle is estimated to have a net worth of about $50 million.

Patti Labelle Early Life

Born “Patricia Louise Holte-Edwards” into a musical family in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in 1944, her father was a railroad worker and lounge singer. Although a shy child, LaBelle showed incredible singing talent, joining the church choir at the age of ten. Her parents divorced when she was twelve. She grew up listening to gospel, jazz and rhythm, blues and doo-wop music.

Patti Labelle Education

Labelle attended John Bartram High School. When she was sixteen, LaBelle won a talent competition at her high school.

Patti Labelle Career

Inspired by the early 1960s girl group phenomenon, Patti LaBelle formed the Blue Belles in 1962. The quartet – consisting of her, Nona Hendryx, Sarah Dash, and Cindy Birdsong – released a string of chart-topping hit singles between 1962 and 1967 for the Newtown, Parkway, and Atlantic labels. Their 1962 rendition of The Basin Street Boys’ song “I Sold My Heart to the Junkman” became a big crossover hit and reached number fifteen on the Billboard Hot 100.

In 1967, the group, now a trio after Birdsong’s departure, adopted a harder-edged funk sound. After initially struggling to find success with their new musical direction, they found success after collaborating with Laura Nyro on her critically-acclaimed 1971 album, Gonna Take a Miracle. Once again, at the height of the Disco era, the group underwent another major makeover and came up with the chart-topping crossover hit, “Lady Marmalade”, in 1975.

Patti LaBelle and the Bluebelles broke up due to creative differences in 1977. While all three members enjoyed successful solo careers on their own, LaBelle far exceeded the success of her former bandmates, scoring almost two dozen hit singles through the 1980s. A few of them include “If Only You Knew”, “New Attitude”, and “Stir It Up”, “On My Own” and “If You Asked Me To”. She maintained her commercial clout into the 1990s, staying connected with younger audiences with R&B albums such as 1994’s Gems and 1997’s Flame.

Patti Labelle The BlueBelles

Going out on the road, the Bluebelles earned national fame at The Apollo Theater in Harlem, New York, where they became “Apollo Sweethearts.” The group also enjoyed modest success with remakes of songs such as “You’ll Never Walk Alone” and “Somewhere Over the Rainbow,” and their ballad “Down the Aisle (The Wedding Song)” became a top 40 hit. Yet nothing compared to their early success. In 1967, Cindy Birdsong left the group to join forces with Diana Ross and the Supremes. Meanwhile, the remaining members of the Bluebelles tried to pull out of their musical slump.

In 1970, unable to recreate their early success, the Bluebelles were dropped from their label and abandoned by their managers. LaBelle turned to promoter Vicki Wickham for help with their antiquated image. Under Wickham’s management, the group changed their name to the edgier “LaBelle,” altered their fashion to reflect the 1970s glam rock era, and pushed the limits with their lyrics and music.

After releasing several albums on the Warner Bros. label, their 1974 release Nightbirds finally caught on with listeners. The first single off the album, “Lady Marmalade,” about a seductress in New Orleans, became the group’s first No. 1 hit in 12 years. In response to the album’s success, the group began a whirlwind tour, becoming the first group to play at the Metropolitan Opera House, and the first black vocal group to land the cover of Rolling Stone magazine. Yet, underneath the success, there was a layer of tension within the group over musical direction. In 1977, after creative differences, the group split up to focus on solo projects.

Patti Labelle In Labelle

Labelle signed with the Warner Music imprint Track Records and released their self-titled debut album in 1971. The record’s psychedelic soul sound and its blending of rock and soul rhythms was a departure from the group’s early sound. That same year, they sang background vocals on Laura Nyro’s album, Gonna Take a Miracle. A year later, in 1972, the group released Moon Shadow, which repeated the homegrown gritty sound of the previous album. In 1973, influenced by glam rockers David Bowie and Elton John, Wickham had the group dressed in silver space suits and luminescent makeup.

After their third successive album, Pressure Cookin’, failed to generate a hit, Labelle signed with Epic Records in 1974, releasing their most successful album to date, with Nightbirds, which blended soul, funk and rock music, thanks to the work of the album’s producer, Allen Toussaint. The single, “Lady Marmalade”, would become their biggest-selling single, going number one on the Billboard Hot 100 and selling over a million copies, as did Nightbirds, which later earned an RIAA gold award, for sales of a million units. In October 1974, Labelle made pop history by becoming the first rock and roll vocal group to perform at the Metropolitan Opera House. Riding high on the success of “Lady Marmalade” and the Nightbirds album, Labelle made the cover of Rolling Stone in 1975.

Labelle released two more albums, Phoenix and Chameleon in 1975 and 1976, respectively. While both albums continued the group’s critical success, none of the singles issued on those albums ever crossed over to the pop charts. By 1976, Patti, Nona, and Sarah began arguing over the group’s musical direction. Personal difficulties came to a head during a show on December 16, 1976, in Baltimore, Maryland, where Hendryx went backstage and injured herself during a nervous breakdown. Following the incident, LaBelle advised that the group separate.

Patti Labelle TV, Movies and Theater

LaBelle has starred in numerous stage and screen productions, including roles in the films A Soldier’s Story (1984) and Beverly Hills Cop (1984); an appearance in the Broadway gospel musical Your Arm’s Too Short to Box with God (1982); and a recurring role in the television series A Different World (1990). More recently, LaBelle appeared on the popular series American Horror Story in 2014.

The following year, LaBelle took on a new challenge. She became a contestant on Dancing With the Stars, partnered with professional dancer Artem Chigvintsev. LaBelle’s competitors included actress and author Suzanne Somers and athlete Michael Sam. She went on to recurring roles in the series Greenleaf and Star and returned to reality competition fare in 2019 as the Flower in season 2 of The Masked Singer.

Patti Labelle Solo Success

LaBelle released her eponymous solo debut in 1977, which received critical acclaim. In 1982, after the moderate success of albums such as Tasty (1978) and Released (1980), LaBelle recorded the ballad “The Best is Yet to Come,” which reached No. 14 on the R&B chart, and garnered LaBelle her first solo Grammy Award nomination. That same year she had a No. 1 hit with “On My Own,” sung with Michael MacDonald.

Throughout the 1980s, LaBelle continued to score hits with songs such as 1984’s “New Attitude” and “Stir It Up,” which both became pop radio staples, as well as 1989’s “If You Asked Me To.”

In 1991, LaBelle released Burnin’, which hit gold status and landed the singer her first Grammy Award. She was honored again for her work in 1993 when she was given a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. She also continued releasing popular albums throughout the 1990s, including Gems (1994), Flame (1997), and Live! One Night Only (1998)—which won LaBelle a second Grammy.

Patti Labelle Perfume

The first fragrance for singer Patti Labelle was named after her and was presented in 1996. The fragrance contains notes of plum and coconut on top, white flowers, gardenia, Casablanca lily, Vanilla orchid in its heart, and accords of musk and vanilla in the base.

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