Who is Linda Martell on Beyoncé's 'Cowboy Carter'? Here's what you should know about the country pioneer featured on the album interlude 'The Linda Martell Show.'
The country pioneer pops up on the song "Spaghettii" and on the interlude "The Linda Martell Show." Here's what you should know about her.Before that, she pops up on the record's 12th track, "Spaghettii," announcing, "Genres are a funny little concept, aren't they? In theory, they have a simple definition that's easy to understand... But in practice, well, some may feel confined." Not Bey.
In a 2020 interview, Martell recalled incidents of audiences heckling her and calling her slurs."I remember that well," she toldMartell was born Thelma Bynem in 1941 and grew up in Leesville, S.C. One of five children, she formed a singing group with her sister and their cousin called the Anglos. Around that time, a local DJ suggested she change her name to Linda Martell, and the group soon became Linda Martell & the Anglos.
They had a few unsuccessful singles before deciding to call it quits. Martell continued playing as a solo act and, while singing at an Air Force base, she caught the ear of William "Duke" Rayner, a furniture salesman with musical aspirations. Rayner introduced her to hotshot Nashville record producer Shelby Singleton Jr., who saw in Martell the opportunity to market the first Black female country singer. Martell recorded her first, and only, album in one 12-hour day.spawned three moderately successful singles, and the album peaked at No. 40, spending two weeks on the country charts. But Singleton's attention quickly turned from Martell to Jeannie C.
Martell and Singleton parted ways and, according to her, Singleton "blackballed" her from the rest of the industry, and she retired from country music in 1974. She spent the next two decades traveling around hoping to reignite her career, eventually returning home to South Carolina to be closer to her children.
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