LaVette, Bettye, 1946-

found: LaVette, B. I've got my own hell to raise [SR] p2005:label (Bettye LaVette) insert (b. 1946, Muskegon, Mich.; soul singer)

found: All music guide WWW site, Mar. 3, 2006(Bettye LaVette; b. Betty Haskin, Jan. 26, 1946, Muskegon, MI; soul singer)

found: African American National Biography, accessed February 21, 2015, via Oxford African American Studies Center database:(LaVette, Bettye; Betty Jo Haskins; rhythm and blues musician, singer; born 29 January 1946 in Muskegon, Michigan, United States; cut a single, “My Man-He's a Lovin' Man,” released by Atlantic Records (1962); returned to Detroit (late 1960s); recorded first full album, “Child of the Seventies” at the famed Muscle Shoals studio in Alabama; spent the rest of the 70s on Broadway, appearing with Cab Calloway in the musical “Bubblin' Brown Sugar”; first major success since the 1960s, was the album “A Woman Like Me” on the Blues Express label (2003); received the W.C. Handy Award of the Blues Foundation (2004); recorded another critically acclaimed album of covers by female artists from Dolly Parton to Sinead O'Connor, “I've Got my Own Hell to Raise,” on Anti-Records (2005); was voted that year's Best Female Blues Singer by “Blues Critic” magazine; “Living Blues” magazine named her Blues Artist of the Year (2007); sang a duet with Jon Bon Jovi at the presidential inaugural of Barack Obama (2009); covered songs by the Who, the Animals, Led Zeppelin, and others in “Interpretations: The British Rock Song Book,” and toured with the former Led Zeppelin singer, Robert Plant (2010))