Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Sister Rosetta Tharpe photographed at Wilbraham Road Station in Manchester, England, while filming the Granada Television special ...

Sister Rosetta Tharpe, known as the Godmother of Rock ’n’ Roll, is still underappreciated in official histories and halls, but her influence on the early years of the genre is transparently clear ...

Correction: Cotton Plant is in Woodruff County. This story on Sister Rosetta Tharpe misstated the county. The woman called the Godmother of Rock 'n' Roll would have turned 100 years old a couple of ...

Arkansas native Rosetta Nubin Tharpe was one of gospel music’s first superstars, the first gospel performer to record for a major record label (Decca), and an early crossover from gospel to secular ...

Before Chuck Berry and that windmill windup, or Jerry Lee Lewis and that roiling rockabilly wail, there was Sister Rosetta Tharpe, kicking up dirt, blazing a singular, influential trail -- often in ...