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Actress, Odetta, was born Odetta Holmes on Dec 31, 1930 in Birmingham, AL. died at the age of 77 on Dec 2, 2008 in Manhattan, New York City .

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A songwriter, guitarist and actress as well as legendary black folksinger, she trained in opera singing as a teenager and made her professional debut with the Hollywood Turnabout Puppet Theatre in 1944 (age 13), where she stayed for four years.

Was planning to perform at President Obama's historic inauguration at the time of her death.

She was awarded the American National Medal of the Arts in 1999 by the National Endowment for the Arts in Washington D.C.

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