Latest Release
- APR 5, 2024
- 1 Song
- Traditional Christmas Classics · 1989
- Gospel Train (Expanded Edition) · 1956
- The Definitive Collection of R&B Hits from 1942-45, Vol. 2 · 1958
- Gospel Train (Expanded Edition) · 1956
- The Gospel of the Blues (Remastered) · 1949
- Sister Rosetta Tharpe Vol 1 (1938 - 1941) · 1960
- The Gospel of the Blues (Remastered) · 1947
- The World Of... The Greatest Gospels · 1993
- The Gospel of the Blues (Remastered) · 2003
- The Gospel of the Blues (Remastered) · 1939
Essential Albums
Albums
Music Videos
Artist Playlists
- This radical R&B pioneer did it all for the Lord.
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
- March 20, 1915
- GENRE
- Christian