Etta James: 1938-2012

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Muhammad Ali plays a few notes on the piano as singer Etta James watches on Sept. 22, 1974. The singer's manager says James has died in Southern California. Lupe De Leon tells The Associated Press the singer died on Jan. 20, 2012, of complications from leukemia.

Etta James, legendary blues singer, dies at 73

Credit: AP Photo/Horst Faas