Radio de Patti Labelle & the Bluebelles

Labelle is an American R&B/soul group, who successfully melded disco with funk and glam rock. The group was led by Patti LaBelle, who later had a successful solo career. Nona Hendryx and Sarah Dash rounded out the group. The group was best known for their gospel singing harmonies but the group sang of racism, sexism and eroticism. This female trio is responsible for the proto-disco funk classic "Lady Marmalade," and LaBelle's outlandish space-age costumes and brash incorporation of rock & roll were a far cry from their early days as a typical '60s girl group, not to mention the later solo career of front woman Patti LaBelle. While Patti naturally seems like the focal point in hindsight, the group was also blessed with a talented and prolific songwriter in Nona Hendryx, who followed an idiosyncratic muse into her own mercurial solo career, which often bordered on the avant-garde.[1] In 1961, Nona Hendryx and Sarah Dash of the Del Capris joined Patricia Holt and Sundray Tucker as replacement singers for Holt's singing group, The Ordettes (when Tucker's parents made her leave the group, she was replaced by Cindy Birdsong). Patricia Holt had her name changed to Patti LaBelle after the group became ?The Bluebelles?.