Latest Release
- 5 APR 2024
- 1 Song
- Milestones of Legends: Female Blues Singers, Vol. 3 · 2018
- The Gospel of the Blues (Remastered) · 1949
- Gospel Train · 1956
- Sister Rosetta Tharpe Vol. 2 (1942-1944) · 1942
- Gospel Train (Expanded Edition) · 1958
- The Definitive Collection of R&B Hits from 1942-45, Vol. 2 · 1958
- Sister Rosetta Tharpe Selected Favorites, Vol. 2 · 1960
- Let's Dance Jazz (Jazz Club) · 1935
- Milestones of Legends: Female Blues Singers, Vol. 3 · 2018
- The Gospel of the Blues (Remastered) · 1939
Essential Albums
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