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Betty Davis (Betty Gray Mabry) was born on 26 July, 1944 in Durham, North Carolina, U.S., is an American singer, songwriter, and model (1944–2022). Discover Betty Davis's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is she in this year and how she spends money? Also learn how she earned most of networth at the age of 77 years old?

Popular As Betty Gray Mabry
Occupation Singer · songwriter · model
Age 77 years old
Zodiac Sign Leo
Born 26 July 1944
Birthday 26 July
Birthplace Durham, North Carolina, U.S.
Date of death 9 February, 2022
Died Place Homestead, Pennsylvania, U.S.
Nationality United States

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1944

Betty Davis (born Betty Gray Mabry; July 26, 1944 – February 9, 2022) was an American singer, songwriter, and model.

She was known for her controversial sexually oriented lyrics and performance style and was the second wife of trumpeter Miles Davis.

Her AllMusic profile describes her as "a wildly flamboyant funk diva with few equals ... [who] combined the gritty emotional realism of Tina Turner, the futurist fashion sense of David Bowie, and the trendsetting flair of Miles Davis".

Betty Gray Mabry was born in Durham, North Carolina, on July 26, 1944.

She developed an interest in music when she was about ten, and was introduced to various blues musicians by her grandmother, Beulah Blackwell, while staying at her farm in Reidsville.

At 12, she wrote one of her first songs, "I'm Going to Bake That Cake of Love".

The family relocated to Homestead, Pennsylvania, so her father, Henry Mabry, could work at a Pennsylvania steel mill.

Davis attended and graduated Homestead High School.

She decided to pursue a career in showbusiness after watching her father dance like Elvis Presley.

When she was 16, Betty left Homestead for New York City, enrolling at the Fashion Institute of Technology (FIT) while living with her aunt.

1960

She soaked up the Greenwich Village culture and folk music of the early 1960s.

She associated herself with frequenters of the Cellar, a hip uptown club where young and stylish people congregated.

It was a multiracial, artsy crowd of models, design students, actors, and singers.

At the Cellar she played records and chatted people up.

She was a friend and early muse to fashion designer Stephen Burrows, who also studied at the FIT at the time.

She also worked as a model, appearing in photo spreads in Seventeen, Ebony and Glamour.

In New York, she met musicians including Jimi Hendrix and Sly Stone.

The seeds of her musical career were planted through her friendship with soul singer Lou Courtney, who reputedly produced her first single, "The Cellar", though the existence of that record has been questioned.

She secured a contract with Don Costa, who had written arrangements for Frank Sinatra.

1964

As Betty Mabry, she recorded "Get Ready For Betty" b/w "I'm Gonna Get My Baby Back" in 1964 for Costa's DCP International label.

Around the same time, she recorded a single, "I'll Be There", with Roy Arlington for Safice Records, under the joint name "Roy and Betty".

Her first professional gig came after she wrote "Uptown (to Harlem)" for The Chambers Brothers.

1967

Their 1967 album was a major success, but Mabry focused on her modeling career.

She was successful as a model but felt bored by the work—"I didn't like modeling because you didn't need brains to do it. It's only going to last as long as you look good."

1968

In 1968, when she was in a relationship with Hugh Masekela, she recorded several songs for Columbia Records, with Masekela doing the arrangements.

Two of them were released as a single: "Live, Love, Learn" b/w "It's My Life".

Her relationship with Miles Davis began soon after her breakup from Masekela.

She featured on the cover of Miles Davis' album Filles de Kilimanjaro, which included his tribute to her, "Mademoiselle Mabry", and she introduced him to psychedelic rock and the flamboyant clothing styles of the era.

1969

In the spring of 1969, Betty returned to Columbia's 52nd St. Studios to record a series of demo tracks, with Miles and Teo Macero producing.

At least five songs were taped during those sessions, three of which were Mabry originals, two of which were covers of Cream and Creedence Clearwater Revival.

1971

After the end of her marriage with Miles, Betty moved to London, probably around 1971, to pursue her modeling career.

She wrote music while in the UK and, after about a year, returned to the US with the intention of recording songs with Santana.

Instead, she recorded her own songs with a group of West Coast funk musicians including Larry Graham, Greg Errico, the Pointer Sisters, and members of Tower of Power.

Davis wrote and arranged all her songs.

1973

Her first record, Betty Davis, was released in 1973.

None of the three albums were a commercial success, but she had two minor hits on the Billboard R&B chart: "If I'm in Luck I Might Get Picked Up", which reached number 66 in 1973, and "Shut Off the Lights", which reached number 97 in 1975.

Davis remained a cult figure as a singer, due in part to her unabashedly sexual lyrics and performance style, which were both controversial for the time.

She had success in Europe, but in the U.S. she was barred from performing on television because of her sexually aggressive stage persona.

1974

She released two more studio albums, They Say I'm Different (1974) and her major label debut on Island Records Nasty Gal (1975).

2016

Miles attempted to use these demo songs to secure an album deal for Betty, but neither Columbia nor Atlantic were interested and they were archived until 2016, when they were released in the compilation The Columbia Years, 1968–1969 by Seattle's Light in the Attic Records.