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Ruby Turner tells the story of 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.
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.
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