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‘I thought I was going to drown Otis Redding!’ Patti LaBelle at 80 on soul, sex, survival and superstardom
She is still touring seven months a year – and loving it. The legendary singer discusses smoking, swimming, sweet potato pie and her phenomenally famous friends: Elton, Otis, Laura Nyro and the Stones
Today, she’s equally stylish – black ski-slope hair, huge eyelashes, ferocious silver nails, white diamond hoop earrings and a ruby ring you could land a helicopter on. And then there is LaBelle the actor who starred in A Soldier’s Story alongside Denzel Washington and the celebrity cook whose sweet potato pie was so popular in Walmart that it was reportedly being sold on eBay for around $50. Patti LaBelle: ‘I spend at least seven months of the year touring.’ Photograph: Kriston Jae Bethel/The GuardianLaBelle, born Patricia Louise Holte, started out singing in her Baptist church choir as a little girl.
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