On this day in 1915, Sister Rosetta Tharpe, the "original soul sister" and "Godmother of rock and roll" was born.

"Rock 'n' roll was bred between the church and the nightclubs in the soul of a queer black woman in the 1940s named Sister Rosetta Tharpe."

youtube.com/watch?v=Y9a49oFalZ

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sister_R

npr.org/2017/08/24/544226085/f

 

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