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January 20th, 2012 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda
• Her
final album was called The Dreamer and came out in November 2011.
• James was born Jan. 25, 1938, to a 14-year-old girl in Los
Angeles. Over the years, her mother mentioned several different men as her
father, including Rudolph Wanderone, the legendary pool hustler best known
as Minnesota Fats. James came to think of Wanderone as her father and sought
him out at a Nashville, Tennessee, hotel in 1987. She was unable to confirm
he was her father but told an interviewer, “When he passed, he sent me
a beautiful golden watch that hung on his clothes that had his name on it.
And he sent me a letter and told me that he wanted me to write a song about
him and stuff.”
• James was an influence on performers such as Tina Turner,
Bonnie Raitt, Diana Ross and Janis Joplin. She also toured as an opening act
with the Rolling Stones and performed with the Grateful Dead.
• James fought a long battle with heroin addiction. In her
autobiography, Rage to Survive, she wrote that at one point she and
an accomplice stole the musical instruments of her own band and pawned them
in order to buy drug money. After stints in rehabilitation programs, she
broke the habit at age 50.
• James’ weight reached an estimated 400 pounds at one point and
she often had to perform sitting down. She lost some 200 pounds after
gastric bypass surgery about 10 years ago.
• James was survived by her husband, Artis Mills, two sons Donto
and Sametto and four grandchildren.
• Describing her career, Etta James once said: “My mother
always told me, even if a song has been done a thousand times, you can still
bring something of your own to it. I’d like to think I did that.”
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