5 Quotes & Sayings By Martha Reeves

Born in the small town of Los Angeles, California, Martha Reeves spent her early years singing gospel music with her family at Los Angeles churches. Her father was a choir director who taught his daughter to sing and play piano. At age 13, she became a member of the Dorothy Love Coates's gospel group the "Sister Rosetta Tharpe Experience." The group became so popular that Reeves was often called upon to perform with big band jazz bands. She would soon take on the stage name Martha Reeves Read more

It was during this period that she was first exposed to the then-popular style of pop music. She felt very comfortable singing in this style and felt it suited her unique vocal talents.

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Lead singers not only do the majority of the work, but their personalities are singled out and taken as the general attitude of the unit. Martha Reeves
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The morning after my high-school graduation found me up early job hunting. The dream of college I put on the back burner. Martha Reeves
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Disco music in the '70s was just a call to go wild and party and dance with no thought or conscience or regard for tomorrow. Martha Reeves
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Going on with life, it only gets more and more intense as time goes by - and the challenges only multiply. Martha Reeves