Dorothy Leatherwood Hawkins is the mother of the legendary Etta James, who died earlier this year at the age of 73. In an interview with the Star Tribune in Minneapolis, Etta said she hadn't known that her mother was a singer. According to the interview, which quoted from her autobiography, Rage to Survive, they didn't spend much time together when Etta was young. In her early years, Etta said, she didn't get along well with her teenage mother. But by the time of the recording of the album Blue Gardenia, they were much older and things were better. Etta agreed to let her mother do a duet with her on just one track, but she said that since her mother knew the song better than she did, she let her mom fly solo, on the title track "Blue Gardenia."
Dorothy Leatherwood Hawkins is the mother of the legendary Etta James, who died earlier this year at the age of 73. In an interview with the Star Tribune in Minneapolis, Etta said she hadn't known that her mother was a singer. According to the interview, which quoted from her autobiography, Rage to Survive, they didn't spend much time together when Etta was young. In her early years, Etta said, she didn't get along well with her teenage mother. But by the time of the recording of the album Blue Gardenia, they were much older and things were better. Etta agreed to let her mother do a duet with her on just one track, but she said that since her mother knew the song better than she did, she let her mom fly solo, on the title track "Blue Gardenia."
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