Patti LaBelle Through The Years
Patti LaBelle (and her Belles in the 1960s: “I remember getting these dresses from the five and dime store — something really cheap.”
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Patti LaBelle Through The Years
Image Credit: JOHN BRYSON/REX/Shutterstock Patti Labelle, Nona Hendryx and Sarah Dashas LaBelle in 1975: “You’re not going to look at a black woman unless she’s looking crazy or different…to do that we had to become these outrageous space queens and it worked.”
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Patti LaBelle Through The Years
Image Credit: AMY SANCETTA/AP/REX/Shutterstock “This was at Live Aid in Philadelphia [in 1985] so I took my son and he was about 12 at the time. He was just looking around the room and there was Mick Jagger and Tina Turner and everybody backstage.”
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Patti LaBelle Through The Years
Image Credit: Andre Csillag/REX/Shutterstock Performing “Acid Queen” with The Who in 1989: “[This dress] was very tight in the waist. Thankfully I only had one song to sing because it hurt.”
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Patti LaBelle Through The Years
Image Credit: Paul Buck/EPA/REX/Shutterstock At the BET Awards in 2007
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Patti LaBelle Through The Years
Image Credit: MATT BARON/BEI/BEI/Shutterstock Wearing Zang Toi to the Glamour Women of the Year Awards in 2003: “Don’t put on those drama stuff and it’s wrong. I try to stay in my lane and put on something that’s age appropriate and looks decent on Patti.”
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Patti LaBelle Through The Years
Image Credit: Jenna Greene “I’m very spontaneous — I’m a Gemini — I never do anything the same the second time. I’m a one time hit, then the next night it’s a different way of singing the music.”