Ruth Brown
Ruth Brown
Ruth Brownwas an American singer-songwriter and actress, sometimes known as the "Queen of R&B". She was noted for bringing a pop music style to R&B music in a series of hit songs for Atlantic Records in the 1950s, such as "So Long", "Teardrops from My Eyes" and "He Treats Your Daughter Mean". For these contributions, Atlantic became known as "The house that Ruth built"...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionR&B Singer
Date of Birth12 January 1928
CityPortsmouth, VA
CountryUnited States of America
All three of us came from the Tidewater area (in Virginia).
A fox is a wolf who sends flowers.
I thought the best thing you were supposed to do was find somebody and try to sound like them.
I sang on Church Street, every place that had a stage.
When I saw all of the people I have known all these years, when we got together, it was scary because B.B King and I lived in the same place in Nevada.
All of these years that I have been singing, no one has done a documentary about my music as far as I'm concerned.
But of course it's different now, the blues is no longer blues, it's green now.
We are trying to prove that the blues lives on forever and anybody in this place can sing the blues.
The only person who listens to both sides of an argument is the fellow in the next apartment.
Everytime I think I want to be young again, I remember algebra and physics.
When I got through, Duke Ellington stood up and started the applause.
Life is like a butterfly. You can chase, or you can let it come to you.
There was a time we decided that it was songs that were done especially from my background because of the things we were dealing with, but nowadays, anybody who has a need, and can find the need, they can sing the blues.