Bettye Lavette - Millennium Stage (June 1, 2022)

Subscribe to The Kennedy Center! http://bit.ly/2gNFrtb Tonight on Millennium Stage : Hailed by the New York Times as “one of the great soul interpreters of her generation”, Bettye LaVette is a vocalist who can take any type of song and make it completely her own. Bettye is one of very few of her contemporaries who were recording during the birth of soul music in the 1960s and is still creating vital recordings today. To quote the late, great George Jones: "Bettye is truly a 'singer's singer'." In 2021 her album Blackbirds received a Grammy Nomination for Best Contemporary Blues Album. It also received a Detroit Music Award for Outstanding National Small/Independent Label Recording. Bettye was also inducted into The Blues Hall of Fame, and received a Blues Music Award for Soul Blues Female Artist. Most recently she has appeared on Shindig, SOUL!, Soul Train, National Public Radio's World Cafe, All Things Considered, Weekend Edition, Wait, Wait Don't Tell Me, and performed a Tiny Desk Concert. She has appeared in a Mississippi Public Broadcasting series, Blues Divas, and is in a film of the same name, both produced by award winning film maker, Robert Mugge. She has also appeared on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, Late Night with David Letterman, Late Night With Conan O'Brien, The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson, Lopez Tonight, Austin City Limits, The Prairie Home Companion, The Artist's Den, Good Morning America, The Today Show and The Tavis Smiley Show. She also appeared on The Kennedy Center At 50 PBS Special in 2021.