Featured In
ALBUMDown By The Riverside (Live) - SingleSister Rosetta Tharpe
Albums by Sister Rosetta Tharpe
ALBUMSinging In My SoulSister Rosetta Tharpe
ALBUMPrecious MemoriesSister Rosetta Tharpe
ALBUMThe Gospel Truth: All New! Her Greatest Gospel HitsSister Rosetta Tharpe
ALBUMSister Rosetta TharpeSister Rosetta Tharpe
ALBUMSister Rosetta Tharpe Vol 1 (1938 - 1941)Sister Rosetta Tharpe
ALBUMSpirituals In RhythmSister Rosetta Tharpe
ALBUMGospel Train (Expanded Edition)Sister Rosetta Tharpe
ALBUMGospel FeelingSister Rosetta Tharpe
ALBUMBlessed Assurance (Expanded Edition) [feat. The Rosettes]Sister Rosetta Tharpe
ALBUMGospel SongsSister Rosetta Tharpe
Sister Rosetta Tharpe's Popular Music Videos
Didn't It Rain, Children (The Speek)
Sister Rosetta Tharpe
Whole World In His Hands (The Speek)
Sister Rosetta Tharpe
Artist Playlists
Sister Rosetta Tharpe Essentials
This radical R&B pioneer did it all for the Lord.
Artist Biography
A singer/guitarist equally fluent in gospel, blues, and jazz, Sister Rosetta Tharpe, like Little Richard and Al Green after her, reflected a quintessentially American artistic tension between the sacred and the profane. This combination of the secular and the holy led to a number of hits in the 1930s and '40s. Her popularity peaked in the '50s, and Tharpe died in 1973 following a stroke.
Hometown
Cotton Plant, AR, United States
Genre
Christian