Patti LaBelle

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Patti LaBelle

American singer

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Chitlin Circuit
Venues and entertainers of the Chitlin Circuit
The singer Patti LaBelle opined to an interviewer in 1984 that the venues she came up in were so hardscrabble that “it wasn’t even the chitlin circuit. It was sardine houses.” Yet these same venues gave many performers a platform that they might never have otherwise had…
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The singer Patti LaBelle opined to an interviewer in 1984 that the venues she came up in were so hardscrabble that “it wasn’t even the chitlin circuit. It was sardine houses.” Yet these same venues gave many performers a platform that they might never have otherwise had…
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