Brown was born Ruth Weston in Portsmouth, Va., in 1928. The young singer picked up the last name working with trumpeter Jimmy Brown. (She thought they were hitched but he was already married.) ...

RUTH BROWN’S powerful voice and colorful style helped shape rhythm-and-blues in the 1950s – and won her Tony and Grammy awards four decades later. “I’ve led a good life,&#82… ...

Ruth Brown was a trailblazer, a singer whose run of hits in the ’50s included "I Don't Know" and "Mama He Treats Your Daughter Mean." Decades later, she won Tony and Grammy awards. She starred ...

In her first Gotham gig in five years, and fully recovered from knee surgery and the effects of a stroke, Ruth Brown retains her crown as the undisputed queen of rhythm and blues.

Begle — along with Ruth Brown and Bonnie Raitt– helped create the Rhythm & Blues Foundation, an organization that works to secure long-delayed royalties for aging black musicians.

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Ruth Brown, the vivacious R&B singer whose early hits established Atlantic Records, has died of complications following a stroke and a heart attack in Henderson, Nev. She was 78.