{"id":109897,"date":"2022-02-10T19:04:29","date_gmt":"2022-02-11T01:04:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=109897"},"modified":"2022-02-10T19:04:58","modified_gmt":"2022-02-11T01:04:58","slug":"singer-songwriter-betty-davis-dead-at-77-entertainment-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=109897","title":{"rendered":"Singer-Songwriter Betty Davis Dead at 77 &#8211; Entertainment News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-1545664804358300\" crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script><br \/>\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" style=\"display: block; text-align: center;\" data-ad-layout=\"in-article\" data-ad-format=\"fluid\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-1545664804358300\" data-ad-slot=\"8616314829\"><\/ins><br \/>\n<script>\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\n<\/script><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=109897\" rel=\"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=109897\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-109898 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/GettyImages-147196375-300x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/GettyImages-147196375-300x150.jpg 300w, https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/GettyImages-147196375-768x384.jpg 768w, https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/GettyImages-147196375.jpg 790w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>By Geoffrey Huchel<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Betty Davis, the queen of funk, and ex-wife of jazz legend Miles Davis passed away February 9, 2022 of natural causes in Homestead, Pennsylvania. She was 77.<\/p>\n<p>Davis was born on July 16, 1944 in Homestead, Pennsylvania. She was a singer, songwriter, model, and fashion icon, who was best known for her controversial sexually-oriented lyrics and performance style.<\/p>\n<p>As a teenager, Davis moved to New York City and enrolled at the Fashion Institute for Technology and worked as a model for magazines such as Glamour, Ebony, and Seventeen, among others.<br \/>\nShe produced four studio albums and released several singles including \u201cAnti Love Song\u201d, \u201cHe Was a Big Freak\u201d, \u201cF.U.N.K\u201d, \u201cDon\u2019t\u2019 Call Her No Tramp\u201d, \u201cNasty Gal\u201d, \u201cIt\u2019s My Life\u201d, \u201cCome Take Me\u201d, \u201cYou &amp; I\u201d, and \u201cYou Won\u2019t See Me in the Morning\u201d, among others. <!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Ringside Report sends our condolences to Betty Davis\u2019 family during their time of grief.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Geoffrey Huchel Betty Davis, the queen of funk, and ex-wife of jazz legend Miles Davis passed away February 9, 2022 of natural causes in Homestead, Pennsylvania. She was 77. Davis was born on July 16, 1944 in Homestead, Pennsylvania. She was a singer, songwriter, model, and fashion icon, who was best known for her [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17984],"tags":[28232],"class_list":["post-109897","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-entertainment-news","tag-singer-songwriter-betty-davis-dead-at-77-entertainment-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109897","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=109897"}],"version-history":[{"count":-3,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109897\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=109897"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=109897"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=109897"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}