Queen of Fonk dies - BETTY DAVIS (77) - Muse and Partner, girlfriend we won't see her like again!

 We heard with sadness of the death of Betty Davis yesterday and already as we might have expected there are ROIOs flooding in. She wasn't entirely to my personal taste musically unless she got especially Dr John Fonky! but I appreciated her sound and stunning beauty. 

Zero G Sounds says "The cult funk singer and ex-wife of jazz legend Miles Davis who left an under appreciated yet trailblazing body of work, died yesterday at the age of 77" and they shared her eponymous album of 1973

Betty Davis - 1973 - Zero Sounds

Sounds of 71 says:

Betty Davis on the streets of New York, by Robert Brenner, (above) from the documentary Betty: They Say I’m Different, via nytimes

I was just gonna leave that amazing picture [above] right there, but you know what? You really need to know more about her. The movie is streaming on Amazon in the US, and there’s a bunch of clips on YouTube. Here’s the first trailer from when it hit the film festival circuit in 2014.

https://www.idfa.nl/nl/film/1862dd32-... World premiere at IDFA 2017 Pioneering funk singer and "bold soul sister" Betty Davis shook up the 70s music scene—then she disappeared. This film tells her story.

Betty the Colombia Years!

FOOTNOTE:

 I am disappointed by the number of obituaries and tributes that post pictures of Marsha Hunt in place of Betty and they are two very distinct looking women. They should not be confused! Oh, yeah they both liked getting their legs out in shorts or 'hot pants'! but this is fairly offensive in my book when all you can look at is there attire? And their bodies. They are very particular handsome striking looking women and are easily told part in my opinion

Frequently the pictures cite the shots of Marsha at The Isle of Wight festival in 1969. Still I am sure people can make the same mistake and show such careless research as us white folks all look the same to people of colour!

Betty Davis

Betty

Betty Davis

Marsha Hunt at the Isle of Wight 69

Marsha Hunt

Betty On Stage

Marsha Hunt at the Isle Wight Festival, August 31, 1969 with the band White Trash 

Marsha at the Isle of Wight 1969

Another in the series of women associated with musicians

BETTY DAVIS

(no, not that one!) 

Betty Davis caught the eye of Miles Davis, who had already caught hers. 

“I saw this great-looking man at this dance concert,” she said. 

After she found out who he was, she went to hear him perform at the Village Gate. 

Mr. Davis spotted her and sent over his bodyguard to tell her, she recalled, that the trumpeter would “like to have a drink with you.”

They were married in 1968 and divorced after a turbulent, sometimes violent year. “Every day married to him was a day I earned the name Davis,” she says in the film*.

She was Miles Davis's second wife, model and soul/funk singer Betty Mabry Davis. Betty introduced Miles to Jimi Hendrix and Sly Stone. In his autobiography, Miles said Betty was "too young and wild," and accused her of having an affair with Jimi Hendrix which hastened the end of their marriage. 

Betty denied the affair stating, "I was so angry with Miles when he wrote that. It was disrespectful to Jimi and to me. Miles and I broke up because of his violent temper."

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They Say I'm Different - Betty Davis 2017