BETTY DAVIS
Genres: Funk, RnB • United States

Betty Davis (née Mabry; July 16, 1944 – February 9, 2022) was an American singer, songwriter, and model best known for her controversial sexually-oriented lyrics and performance style, and for being the second wife of trumpeter Miles Davis. Her Allmusic profile describes her as "a wildly flamboyant funk diva with few equals... [who] combined the gritty emotional realism of Tina Turner, the futurist fashion sense of David Bowie, and the trendsetting flair of Miles Davis" Betty Mabry (later Davis) was born in Durham, North Carolina, on July 16, in either 1944 or 1945. Davis developed an interest in music when she was about ten, and was introduced to various blues musicians by her grandmother, Beulah Blackwell, while staying at her farm in Reidsville. At 12, she wrote one of her first songs, "I'm Going to Bake That Cake of Love". The family relocated to Homestead, Pennsylvania, so Davis's father, Henry, could read more...