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Article: Bettye Lavette is all emotion, energy.(NEWS)
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- Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN)
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- January 20, 2004
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Byline: Jon Bream; Staff Writer
Monday night was the opening of the third season of "American Idol," the TV talent show to find the best young undiscovered singers in the United States. Monday was also the opening of a three-night stand at the Dakota Jazz Club for Bettye Lavette, the best "old" undiscovered R & B singer in the United States.
Lavette, who will turn 58 next week, has been performing for 42 years, but she had never appeared in Minneapolis. Her records were never widely promoted, and she never graduated from the small-time R & B circuit except when she played in the Broadway and touring productions of "Bubbling Brown Sugar."
When ...