Patti LaBelle
Patti LaBelle
Patricia Louise Holt-Edwards better known under the stage name Patti LaBelle, is an American singer, author, actress, and entrepreneur. LaBelle began her career in the early 1960s as lead singer and front woman of the vocal group, Patti LaBelle and the Bluebelles. Following the group's name change to Labelle in the early 1970s, she released the iconic disco song "Lady Marmalade" and the group later became the first African-American vocal group to land the cover of Rolling Stone magazine. After...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPop Singer
Date of Birth24 May 1944
CityPhiladelphia, PA
CountryUnited States of America
Patti LaBelle quotes about
I have to go 150 percent or nothing at all.
I've never been with a woman, so I guess I'm straight, OK? But I'm straight enough to know the difference between right and wrong. I am straight enough to know that if you want to marry whoever you want to marry, you should be able to marry whoever you want to marry
So if anybody wants to get me something, get me 60 crabs - one for each year. I don't want no diamonds, I don't want no shoes, I don't want no party. I want some crabs.
I never thought I would be singing for the world.
I like hip-hop music, but some of the lyrics make me want to cry.
I'm no different than you.
People with no humor, they're outta my life.
You've got to know business before you go to show business.
Many a false step is made standing still.
I've had 60 years of ups and downs, and all of the downs that I've had, I'm happy that I've had them because it's taught me to appreciate all the ups.
I'm very spontaneous.
I'm very shy in a crowd.
I want to be remembered as a woman who was fair and always gave 150 percent, no matter what I did.
All I do is stay in the kitchen and cook. I don't go there to party.