Bettye Lavette

About

Award-winning soul singer best known for albums like I've Got My Own Hell to Raise and The Scene of the Crime.

Before Fame

She recorded her first single, My Man—He's a Lovin' Man, at age sixteen.

Trivia

Her album A Woman Like Me won the W. C. Handy Award for Comeback Blues Album of the Year in 2004.

Family Life

She married antiques dealer Kevin Kiley.

Associated With

She has toured with a wide variety of artists including legendary jazz musician Otis Redding.