- The Columbia Years · 2016
- The Columbia Years · 2016
- The Columbia Years · 2016
- The Columbia Years · 2016
- The Columbia Years · 2016
- The Columbia Years · 2016
- The Columbia Years · 2016
- The Columbia Years · 2016
- The Columbia Years · 2016
- Orange Is the New Black (Music From the Original Series) · 2014
- 100 Years of Cinema (Doxy Collection) · 2010
- Crashin' From Passion · 1979
- Crashin' From Passion · 1979
Albums
- 1975
Artist Playlists
- RIP Betty Davis: The pioneering singer brought a raw sensuality to funk.
Compilations
- 2016
About Betty Davis
Funk vocalist, songwriter, and producer Betty Davis was artistic and sexual liberation personified. Uncompromising, unfiltered, and ahead of its time, her small body of work consequently made little commercial impact but gradually found a wider audience. She released her first recordings as Betty Mabry in 1964, had a profound effect on Miles Davis -- to whom she was briefly married -- and is known most for her progressive left-field funk albums issued the following decade, namely her self-titled debut and the charting (and fittingly titled) They Say I'm Different and Nasty Gal. So unbothered by mainstream acceptance was Davis that much of her studio work remained unreleased until decades after the fact. Well before her death in 2022, Davis became an enduring influence heard in the output of artists ranging from Millie Jackson to Prince, from Macy Gray to Beyoncé, and from R&B balladeers to hardcore rappers.
- HOMETOWN
- Durham, NC, United States
- BORN
- 26 July 1944
- GENRE
- R&B/Soul