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On July 23, 1969, LaBelle married a longtime friend, Armstead Edwards, who was a schoolteacher. After LaBelle started her solo career, Edwards became her manager, a position he would remain in until 2000. That year, LaBelle and Edwards legally separated, with their divorce finalized in 2003.
LaBelle reluctantly carried on with a solo career with the support of then-husband Armstead Edwards, who signed on as her personal manager. In the middle of recording her debut album in New Orleans with Chameleon producer David Rubinson, Labelle and Edwards wrote lyrics to a James "Budd" Ellison composition they called "You Are My Friend". The ...
With the guidance of the label and with her husband, Armstead Edwards, LaBelle had finally achieved the solo success that had mostly eluded her since leaving the flashy pop group, Labelle, in 1976. It had been three years since her last album, the platinum-certified Flame , which yielded the modestly popular hit, " When You Talk About Love ".
This article originally appeared in the April 1986 issue of SPIN. There are at least three different people running around inside Patti LaBelle. At least three. Sometimes they merge and confuse ...
Patti LaBelle might be ready to get back into a certain market. The 78-year-old music legend revealed that she is The post Patti LaBelle, 78, open to dating again appeared first on TheGrio.
Patti LaBelle is the debut solo album by American singer Patti LaBelle, released in 1977.The first album LaBelle recorded after sixteen years fronting the band Labelle (formerly Patti LaBelle and the Bluebelles), it is notable for the dance hit, "Joy to Have Your Love", the classic gospel-inspired ballad, "You Are My Friend" and the mid-tempo, Angelo "Funky Knuckles" Nocentelli number, "I ...
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Labelle was an American funk rock band that originated out of the Blue Belles, a girl group who were a popular vocal group of the 1960s and 1970s. The original group was formed after the disbanding of two rival girl groups in the area around Philadelphia, in Pennsylvania, and Trenton, in New Jersey: the Ordettes and the Del-Capris, forming as a new version of the former group, then later ...