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"The skies above are a little more blue today following word that music legend Etta James has died. She was 73. The singer was best known for singing the blues and jazz, and her biggest hit, hands down, was &amp;quot;At Last,&amp;quot; which is a wedding staple as well as a Hollywood favorite. Memorably, her version of the song was used in the 1998 movie Pleasantville with Tobey Maguire and Marley Shelton. It was such a beautiful scene... Remember? Etta, who was born in Los Angeles, didn&amp;#x27;t have an easy life (she was born to a teen mother and unknown father) and later struggled with drug addiction, but through it all she kept making music--her peak was in the 1950s and 1960s--and put out 27 studio albums total. Some of her other hit songs include &amp;quot;Dance with Me, Henry,&amp;quot; &amp;quot;Tell Mama&amp;quot; and&amp;quot; I&amp;#x27;d Rather Go Blind.&amp;quot; For her efforts, she was later inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and the Grammy Hall of Fame. In her 1995 autobiography, Rage to Survive, Etta wrote, &amp;amp;#8220;The bad girls &amp;amp;#133; had the look that I liked. I wanted to be rare, I wanted to be noticed, I wanted to be exotic as a Cotton Club chorus girl, and I wanted to be obvious as the most flamboyant hooker on the street. I just wanted to be.&amp;amp;#8221; Her colorful life story was later included in the 2008 movie Cadillac Records. She was portrayed by Beyonce and the ladies appeared together on the red carpet at the premiere. Here&amp;#x27;s a clip from that film... A year later, Etta performed her biggest hit on Dancing with the Stars. Her voice was just about as strong as it was years earlier, don&amp;#x27;t you think? The last couple years of her life she suffered from various health problems, including an Alzheimer&amp;#x27;s disease diagnosis in 2009 and then leukemia earlier this year. Then this morning, with her family by her side, she passed away. Do you have any special memories of Etta&amp;#x27;s music? Play it at your wedding? Slow dance to it at the prom? Maybe it was &amp;quot;your song&amp;quot; with a boyfriend? Pay tribute to the song, and the woman who sang it, below. More on music... *Those Sweet-Faced Kids From the P.S. 22 Chorus Totally Just Punk&amp;#x27;d Us *It&amp;#x27;s NEW MUSIC MONDAY! Wanna Hear An Awesome Song (or Two)? *5 Things To Know About Lana Del Rey (Other Than She Was The Controversial Musical Guest On Last Weekend&amp;#x27;s SNL) Photo: Getty Images "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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