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New York City, USA (1973 – 1979)

Betty Davis (born Betty Mabry, 1945 in New York City, USA) is an American funk, rock and soul singer and ex-model.

When she turned sixteen, Betty moved to New York and met several musicians including Jimi Hendrix and Sly Stone. She met Miles Davis in 1967 and married him in 1968. As Miles stated in his autobiography, in addition to creating turmoil in his personal life, Betty helped him to explore music by introducing him to psychedelic rock guitarist Jimi Hendrix and funk innovator Sly Stone. There is plenty of circumstantial evidence, though seemingly no credible documentation, to support the idea that Miles named his masterpiece, jazz fusion album, Bitches Brew after Betty.

After the breakup of her marriage, Betty moved to London to pursue her modeling career. She wrote music - a passion since childhood - while in the UK and returned to the US with the intention of recording songs with Santana and The Commodores. When those projects didn’t work out, she organized a group of talented West Coast funk musicians and recorded the songs under her own name.

Her first record, Betty Davis, was released in 1973 and her band included members of Sly and the Family Stone, Graham Central Station, The Pointer Sisters, Tower Of Power and Neil Schon who came from Santana, but went on to form Journey. Davis released two more studio albums: They Say I’m Different (1974) and Nasty Gal (1975).

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