Patti LaBelle Turns 82 and Says She Will Sing ‘Until I Can’t No More’ | WATCH
*Patti LaBelle turned 82 on Sunday, May 24, and the music icon is showing no signs of stepping back. These days she fills her Saturday nights with card games and says she is “living it down, not up.” Off the stage, she has channeled her energy into building a business around her love of cooking, […] The post Patti LaBelle Turns 82 and Says She Will Sing ‘Until I Can’t No More’ | WATCH appeared first on EURweb | Black News, Culture, Entertainment & More.
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*Patti LaBelle turned 82 on Sunday, May 24, and the music icon is showing no signs of stepping back. These days she fills her Saturday nights with card games and says she is “living it down, not up.”
Off the stage, she has channeled her energy into building a business around her love of cooking, including multiple bestselling cookbooks and a product line under the name “Patti’s Good Life.” But singing remains the center of everything. “Singing is my life,” she said on CBS Sunday Morning, describing her voice as “big. It’s loud. It’s soft. It can rap. It can do opera, on a good day.”
Few people who have witnessed LaBelle command a stage would guess that the woman behind the voice once refused to leave the house as a child. Growing up in Philadelphia as Patsy Holt, she was so withdrawn that her mother had to pay her to go outside. “I was very, very, very shy. I would sing in my bedroom with the broom as a microphone. So I knew I had a voice and my mother and father loved my voice,” she said.
At ten years old, a duet inside a church choir cracked something open in her. The moment the congregation rose to its feet and called out “hallelujah,” LaBelle felt it in her bones.
After starting a music group as a teenager, a music executive suggested that she change her last name to LaBelle, French for “beautiful.” She recalled that the same executive told her she was “quite ugly.” The remark remained memorable enough for her to discuss it decades later.
“It gave me hurt, just total, total hurt, because I knew how much he loved my voice. And I knew, no matter what anyone said about me, I am who I am, I’m not gonna change. The only thing that changed was my nose. I had a huge nose, so I had it done,” LaBelle said. “And that’s all I’ve ever had done. My nose, because it was not pleasing to me.”
After six decades in the industry, LaBelle is not entertaining any talk of farewell tours or final curtain calls. “It’s never my last show. I’ll be singing until I can’t no more,” she said. And when it comes to the word legend, LaBelle is not bashful about accepting it. “I love it. I should be called, ‘Legend, legend, legend, legend.’ Yes. I love it. I have earned it. Yes, I have.”
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