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
I truly respect the people who are working. If they want an autograph from Patti LaBelle, they are going to get it. I have never separated myself from them. I never think you are better than the next one.
I never wanted to go on stage alone because if you mess up, who can you blame?
I'm very spontaneous.
I'm very shy in a crowd.
Many a false step is made standing still.
I want to be remembered as a woman who was fair and always gave 150 percent, no matter what I did.
It's a sweet thing, faith. With it, you can handle any circumstance, any crisis, because you know God always has your back. And when God is for you, who can be against you? Nobody. As my Aunt Hattie says, "One and God are a majority."
I don't tweet, Twitter, email, Facebook, look book, no kind of book. I have a land line phone at my home - that's the only phone I have. If my phone rang every day like everyone else around me, I would lose my mind.
People with no humor, they're outta my life.
Real divas give 150 percent. If they don't have the right dress, they'll go out in whatever they have. If there are no microphones, they'll still put on a show. They are people who put their heart and soul in what they do.
I never thought I would be singing for the world.
A diva is someone who is a perfectionist, who does her best in her craft.
So if anybody wants to get me something, get me 60 crabs - one for each year. I don't want no diamonds, I don't want no shoes, I don't want no party. I want some crabs.
I have to go 150 percent or nothing at all.