A couple of the incredible singers whose music we can’t resist have big birthdays coming right up!
On May 24, Patti LaBelle (who was born Patricia Louise Holte) gets to blow out 75 candles on her birthday cake. Her fame began in the early 1960s when she was lead singer of Patti LaBelle and the Bluebelles, which was renamed Labelle a decade later. What else happened a decade after the group’s inception? The song “Lady Marmalade,” that’s what. It was a gigantic hit, thanks to Patti’s incredible vocals and the then-scandalous lyrics, “Voulez-vous coucher avec moi?”
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