Legendary singer Etta James has sadly announced that the leukemia with which she was diagnosed in March of this year has become terminal.
The 6 Grammy award winner has been battling with ill health for some years, inlcuding kidney failure and dementia. In October of this year James released her final studio album "The Dreamer". The album features renditions of Otis Redding's Cigarettes and Coffee, Bobby "Blue" Bland's Dreamer, Ray Charles' In The Evening and Guns N' Roses' Welcome To The Jungle. In a career spanning over fifty years James has been awarded the Lifetime Achievement Award, a Best Jazz Vocal Performance. In 1993 James was inducted in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, and in 2001 she was inducted by both the Rhythm and Blues Hall of Fame and the Rockabilly Hall Of Fame.
The depth and breadth of her musical talent across all genres has been a joy and an inspiration to the world and will continue to be so.
