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Betty Davis
A unique singer and songwriter whose strong personality never clicked with the
public at large, Betty Davis was born Betty Mabry on July 16, 1944, in Durham,
North Carolina. She grew up on a steady diet of blues music, and she began
writing songs before she was a teenager. She moved to New York at age 16 and
began frequenting and working at various clubs, all the while building
connections in the music industry there as well as establishing herself in the
bohemian scene of Greenwich Village. One of the scene’s most popular venues, The
Cellar, became the subject of Davis’ first si...
