Patti LaBelle
Patti LaBelle
Patricia Louise Holt-Edwards better known under the stage name Patti LaBelle, is an American singer, author, actress, and entrepreneur. LaBelle began her career in the early 1960s as lead singer and front woman of the vocal group, Patti LaBelle and the Bluebelles. Following the group's name change to Labelle in the early 1970s, she released the iconic disco song "Lady Marmalade" and the group later became the first African-American vocal group to land the cover of Rolling Stone magazine. After...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPop Singer
Date of Birth24 May 1944
CityPhiladelphia, PA
CountryUnited States of America
Being honored at Berklee College of Music; I got a doctorate. I am Doctor Patti.
I know how to put it on when it comes to interviews and performing because I have to. But I'm pretty laid back.
I haven't stopped looking for the good in people. I've just accepted the fact that I'm not always going to find it.
I've had 60 years of ups and downs, and all of the downs that I've had, I'm happy that I've had them because it's taught me to appreciate all the ups.
When I was married, I wasn't loving myself. Now I'm in love with myself. I will get married again.
I'm 60, and I did 60-year-old women songs. I'm not trying to be the Hip-Hop Queen, although I am the original Hip Hop Queen.
I always have to go that extra mile, and I do it and I don't mind doing it, but it isn't fair.
All I do is stay in the kitchen and cook. I don't go there to party.
Once I stopped dwelling on what I didn't have, on what I thought I was going to lose, and began to give freely, everything opened up for me. Everything began to flow into my life.
I was a shy kid with a broom handle that I pretended was a microphone.
I decided to always sing in the back with the chorus and never went up front because I had trouble performing.
Anger is like the blade of a butcher knife - very difficult to hold on to for long without harming yourself.
All these little heifers who can't sing are called ‘divas’.
Whenever I go out, so many people who respect me ask me what to do in a certain situation. A lot of times, I didn't know the answers because sometimes I was going through the same sort of thing. But then later on, I would think of things that people told me.