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  • Atlantic Records artists
  • Mercury Records artists
  • American female singers
  • 20th-century American singers
  • American rhythm and blues singers
  • 1935 births
  • 1984 deaths
  • Burials at Forest Lawn Memorial Park (Hollywood Hills)
  • Jazz-blues musicians
  • Modern Records artists
  • Muse Records artists
  • People from Galveston, Texas
  • Singers from California
  • Singers from Texas
  • Drug-related deaths in California
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  • Esther Phillips (born December 23, 1935, Galveston, Texas, USA - died August 7, 1984, Carson, California, USA) was an American soul and blues singer who was an influence on many other artists including [a38863].A mature singer at age fourteen, she won the amateur talent contest in 1949 at the Barrelhouse Club owned by Johnny Otis. Otis was so impressed he added her to his traveling revue, the California Rhythm and Blues Caravan, billed as 'Little Esther Phillips'. Her first hit record was %22Double Crossing Blues%22 (#1 R+B), recorded in 1950 for Savoy Records. Her duet with Mel Walker on %22Mistrusting Blues%22, also went to number one that year, as did %22Cupid Boogie%22. Other Phillips records that made it onto the U.S. Billboard R&B chart in 1950 include %22Misery%22 (#9), %22Deceivin'%22 (#4), %22Wedding Boogie%22 (#6), and %22Faraway Blues%22 (#6). Few artists, R&B or otherwise, have ever enjoyed such success in their debut year. Phillips left Otis and the Savoy label at the end of 1950 and signed with [url=http://www.discogs.com/label/Federal+Records+%282%29]Federal Records[/url]. Although she recorded more than thirty sides for Federal, only one, %22Ring-a-Ding-Doo%22, charted; making it to #8 in 1952. Not working with Otis was part of her problem; the other part was her drug usage. By the middle of the decade Phillips was chronically addicted to drugs.Phillips ultimately got well enough to launch a comeback in 1962. Now billed as Esther Phillips instead of Little Esther, she recorded a country tune, %22Release Me,%22 with producer [a1229104]. This went to number 1 on R&B and number 8 on the pop listings. After several other minor R&B hits on [url=http://www.discogs.com/label/Lenox+Records]Lenox[/url], she was signed by [l681] Records. Her cover of [a82730]' song %22And I Love Him%22 nearly made the R&B Top Ten in 1965 and The Beatles flew her to the UK for her first overseas performances.During the 1970's she made a temporary move into disco material and scored an international hit with %22What A Difference A Day Made%22, an updating of the 1930's jazz standardPhillips died at UCLA Medical Center in Carson, California in 1984, at the age of 48 from liver and kidney failure.
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  • Esther Phillips (December 23, 1935 – August 7, 1984) was an American singer. Phillips was known for her R&B vocals, but she was a versatile singer, also performing pop, country, jazz, blues and soul music.
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  • 1935-12-23
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  • 1984-08-07
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