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The Sister Rosetta Tharpe Story

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Ruby Turner tells story of the guitar-playing gospel singer, Sister Rosetta Tharpe.

Another chance to hear Ruby Turner tell the extraordinary story of the guitar-playing gospel singer, Sister Rosetta Tharpe.

Ruby Turner tells the extraordinary story of the guitar-playing gospel singer, Sister Rosetta Tharpe.

Rosetta was one of the most innovative gospel musicians of her time. In her music you can hear blues, R & B and rock 'n' roll and she influenced the likes of Elvis Presley, Jerry Lee Lewis and Little Richard.

When she married, 20,000 people attended the wedding in a baseball stadium, yet when she died she was buried in an unmarked grave.

Ruby Turner charts her rise to fame and popularity and subsequent demise in a documentary that was first broadcast on Radio 2 in 2009.

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