RUTHIE FOSTER

    RUTHIE FOSTER también participará en el DOHENY BLUES FESTIVAL 2014 


                                                           
              

Ruthie Foster Quartet performance during 33rd Rawa Blues Festival, song: Set Fire To The Rain (Adele cover).
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Ruthie Foster live@Kulturhof Schloss Köniz feat. Samantha Banks & Larry Fulcher.

Ruthie Foster is an American singer-songwriter of blues and folk music. Foster was 48 years old in May 2012.

Foster is from Gause, Texas and comes from a family of gospel singers. She studied music at McLennan Community College and then worked in the US Navy, where she started performing. Her debut was released in 1997 and she has performed in North America, Europe and Australia. She has often been compared to Bonnie Raitt and Aretha Franklin.

In June 2009, Foster toured with The Blind Boys of Alabama. In December 2009 her CD, The Truth According to Ruthie Foster, was nominated for a Grammy Award for Best Contemporary Blues Album. In May 2010, at the Blues Music Awards, Foster was announced as Contemporary Blues Female Artist of the Year. She was a featured artist at the Byron Bay Bluesfest in Australia in 2011.