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Sister Rosetta Tharpe

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Sister Rosetta Tharpe got rock rolling long before Elvis

By Dan DeLuca

The late, great Sister Rosetta Tharpe was a one-of-a-kind pioneer of 20th-century American music. [26 February 2007]

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