Person · Open Library
- Works
- 11
Top works
- Clocking Out a Zone of Perdition
- Homeless N' Seattle : (in Remembrance of the Community)
- 1) Mrs. Spider on My Window, and Other Bedtime Stories : (Boy Meets Girl, and Let Your Yeah Be Yeah and Your Nay Nay)
- Whisperings from Heaven
- #Called
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Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Female
- Origin
- United States
- Active from
- 1947-04-02
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Discography
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Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 52,205
- Total plays
- 304,640
Tags
soulNew Orleansfunkfemale vocalistsNew Orleans Funk
Betty Harris (born 1939, Orlando, Florida, United States) is an American soul singer. Her recording career in the 1960s produced three hit singles that made the US Billboard R&B and Billboard Hot 100 charts: "Cry to Me" (1963), "His Kiss" (1964) and "Nearer to You" (1967). However, her reputation among soul music connoisseurs far exceeds her commercial success of the 1960s, and her recordings for the Jubilee and Sansu record labels are highly sought after in the 2000s by fans of Northern soul an
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Betty
- Family name
- Harris
- Gender
- female
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- Orlando
- Occupation
- singer
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Genre
- soul
- Instrument
- voice
- Record label
- Jubilee Records
- Image
- Betty Harris at Brooklyn Soul Festival 2010.jpg
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- date of birth
- 1941-01-01
- start of work period
- 1963-00-00
- different from
- Betty Harris
- number of viewers/listeners
- 265717
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