Latest Release
- 5 APR 2024
- 1 Song
- Gospel Train (Expanded Edition) · 1958
- Sister Rosetta Tharpe Selected Favorites, Vol. 2 · 1960
- Milestones of Legends: Female Blues Singers, Vol. 3 · 2018
- When Gospel Was Gospel · 1960
- Down By The Riverside (Live) - Single · 2024
- Didn't It Rain (Live) - Single · 2024
- Soul of Gospel · 2023
- Soul of Gospel · 2023
- Soul of Gospel · 2023
- Soul of Gospel · 2023
Essential Albums
Music Videos
Singles & EPs
Live Albums
- 1960
Appears On
- 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