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Rita Coolidge (born May 1, 1945, in Lafayette, Tennessee) is a Grammy Award-winning United States|American singer. She is of Cherokee Native Americans in the United States|Native American and Scotland|Scottish descent.<ref>[http://www.allthingscherokee.com/articles_culture_guess_010102.html All Things Cherokee: Article - Guess Who's a Cherokee - Rita Coolidge<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref><ref>http://www.musicianguide.com/biographies/1608003484/Rita-Coolidge.html</ref>
Early career
Rita Coolidge's early career was as a backing vocalist, for artists such as Joe Cocker, Eric Clapton, and Leon Russell. Her performance of "Superstar (Carpenters song)|Superstar" on the Cocker/Russell ''Mad Dogs and Englishmen (album)|Mad Dogs and Englishmen'' album helped gain her attention.
The Delta Lady
She became known as "The Delta Lady" and inspired Leon Russell to write a song of the same name for her. It was during this time that she met Kris Kristofferson, the two married in 1973. With him, she recorded several duet albums which sold well, and earned them a Grammy Award for Best Country Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocal in 1974 in music|1974 for ''From the Bottle to the Bottom'', and in 1976 in music|1976 for ''Lover Please''.
Solo career
She had several solo hit singles during the late 1970s with cover versio... read all
The Soundtrack Of My Youth
