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Cotton Candy and So Many Men
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Annetta Washington doesn't use her given
name professionally, and most people have
never heard it. Everyone follows the advice
of her signature tune, "THEY CALL ME COTTON
CANDY", and that they do.
Cotton Candy was a founding member and
helped to organize the Kansas City Blues
Society, and served as the original
secretary during her three year tenure on
the board. Today she still remains
associated with the Society. She also has
the distinction of being the first female
blues artist to be inducted into the Elder
Statesmen of Jazz. One can always find
Cotton on stage somewhere doing what the
blues are all about...living as well as
performing them. "That's the true bedrock of
the blues," Cotton says. "Living them."
Cotton comes from a religious and musical
background. At age eight she was playing the
piano for her minister/father's church,
while her mother played piano in the local
clubs. Her blues career began with she and
two friends going to jam sessions in the
Baghdad Club at 37th & Broadway in Kansas
City. She would sing the two Dinah
Washington songs that she knew weekend after
weekend. Today she writes her own material
by herself or in collaboration with her
band.
Her present band, SO MANY MEN, is her third
band. Cotton comments on the band, "You keep
on working til you get what you want." .
Cotton Candy and So Many Men were recently
honored by Mayor Emanuel Cleaver and the
Kansas City City Council when they
unanimously resolved and proclaimed April 14
as Annetta "Cotton Candy" Washington Day.
This resolution becomes a permanent record
in Kansas City music history.
Cotton Candy's CD, "THEY CALL ME COTTON
CANDY" is already enjoying rave reviews
across the country. To quote the Lare Bear,
"Cotton Candy sings the blues with her whole
heart, because she sees the blues in life." |
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