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Person · Open Library
- Born
- 1930
- Died
- 2008
- Works
- 2
Top works
- Blues everywhere I go
- Christmas spirituals
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Film & TV
Acting · Birmingham, Alabama, USA
Known for
- Street Gang: How We Got to Sesame Street — Self (archive footage)2021
- Woody Guthrie All-Star Tribute Concert 1970 — Self2019
- Greenwich Village: Music That Defined a Generation — Self (archive footage)2013
- Blues Divas — Self2005
- The Ballad of Ramblin' Jack — Self2000
- Other Voices, Too: An Evening With Nanci Griffith — Self1999
- Classic Albums — Self (archive footage)1997
- Nanci Griffith: Other Voices, Other Rooms — Self1993
- Turnabout: The Story of the Yale Puppeteers — Self1993
- Phil Ochs Memorial Celebration — Self1977
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Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Female
- Origin
- United States
- Active from
- 1930
- Active to
- 2008
Discography
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Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 214,980
- Total plays
- 1,778,294
Tags
Odetta (December 31, 1930 - December 2, 2008) was an African-American singer whose repertoire consists largely of American folk music, blues, and spirituals. She was born Odetta Holmes in Birmingham, Alabama, grew up in Los Angeles, California, and studied music at Los Angeles City College. Having operatic training from the age of 13, her first professional experience was in musical theater, with a touring company of the musical Finian's Rainbow in 1949. <a href="https://www.last.fm/music/Odett
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Academic profile · OpenAlex
- Works
- 54
- Cited by
- 691
Research areas
Most cited works
- Metformin promotes tau aggregation and exacerbates abnormal behavior in a mouse model of tauopathy2016 · 124 cit
- Phosphorylation of Parkin at serine 65 is essential for its activation<i>in vivo</i>2018 · 118 cit
- Targeting mitophagy in neurodegenerative diseases2025 · 104 cit
- Deubiquitinating enzyme amino acid profiling reveals a class of ubiquitin esterases2021 · 87 cit
- Global ubiquitylation analysis of mitochondria in primary neurons identifies endogenous Parkin targets following activation of PINK12021 · 68 cit
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Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- Targeting mitophagy in neurodegenerative diseases
· 2025 · cited 137x
- Phosphorylation of Parkin at serine 65 is essential for its activation<i>in vivo</i>
· 2018 · cited 118x
- Metformin promotes tau aggregation and exacerbates abnormal behavior in a mouse model of tauopathy
· 2016 · cited 114x
- Deubiquitinating enzyme amino acid profiling reveals a class of ubiquitin esterases
· 2021 · cited 81x
- Global ubiquitylation analysis of mitochondria in primary neurons identifies endogenous Parkin targets following activation of PINK1
· 2021 · cited 69x
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Key facts
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- Odetta
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- Odetta in 1961
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- solo_singer
- Musical artist <! See Wikipedia:WikiProject Musicians >.birth_name
- Odetta Holmes
- Musical artist <! See Wikipedia:WikiProject Musicians >.alias
- Odetta Gordon, Odetta Felious
- Musical artist <! See Wikipedia:WikiProject Musicians >.birth_place
- Birmingham, Alabama, U.S.
- Musical artist <! See Wikipedia:WikiProject Musicians >.death_place
- New York City, U.S.
- Musical artist <! See Wikipedia:WikiProject Musicians >.years_active
- 1944–2008
- Musical artist <! See Wikipedia:WikiProject Musicians >.spouse
- Don Gordon (m. 1959; div. 1959) Iverson Minter (m. 1977; div. 1983)
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