Latest Release
- 5 APR 2024
- 1 Song
- The Definitive Collection of R&B Hits from 1942-45, Vol. 2 · 1958
- The Gospel of the Blues (Remastered) · 1949
- The Gospel of the Blues (Remastered) · 1949
- The Gospel of the Blues (Remastered) · 2003
- Gospel Train · 1956
- 100 Blues Classics & Greatest Blues Hits - The Very Best Classic Blues Collection · 1996
- Best of Blues - From Mississipi to Chicago · 2014
- Milestones of Legends: Female Blues Singers, Vol. 3 · 2018
- Precious Memories · 1968
- Sister Rosetta Tharpe Vol 1 (1938 - 1941) · 1960
Essential Albums
- 1956
Music Videos
Artist Playlists
- This radical R&B pioneer did it all for the Lord.
Appears On
- Various Artists
- The Chris Barber Jazz Band
- Lucky Millinder and His Orchestra
About Sister Rosetta Tharpe
A singer/guitarist equally fluent in gospel, blues, and jazz, Sister Rosetta Tharpe, like Little Richard and Al Green after her, reflected a quintessentially American artistic tension between the sacred and the profane. This combination of the secular and the holy led to a number of hits in the 1930s and '40s. Her popularity peaked in the '50s, and Tharpe died in 1973 following a stroke.
- HOMETOWN
- Cotton Plant, AR, United States
- BORN
- 20 March 1915
- GENRE
- Christian