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Sugar Pie DeSanto, Gritty Soul Singer, Is Dead at 89

A powerful performer who paved the way for later soul and hip-hop artists, she recorded with Etta James and toured with Johnny Otis and James Brown.

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Chess Records, Deaths (Obituaries), DeSanto, Sugar Pie (1935-2024), James, Etta, Nineteen Hundred Sixties, Otis, Johnny, Rhythm and Blues (Music)
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