Rita Coolidge
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Rita Coolidge (born May 1, 1945) is an American recording artist.
Her songs appeared on Billboard's pop, country, adult contemporary, and jazz charts throughout the 1970s and 1980s, and she and then-husband Kris Kristofferson received two Grammy Awards.
"Your Love Keeps Lifting Me Higher" "We're All Alone" (She's Reliable), and the theme song for the 1983 James Bond film Octopussy, "All Time High" are among her songs.
Personal life
Coolidge had romantic relations with Stephen Stills and Graham Nash. Coolidge's departure from Stills for Nash has been cited as a major reason for Crosby's 1970 breakup. Nash & Young, Confederate and Cook & Young's 1970 breakup. In David Crosby's song "Cowboy Film" she was the "sweet little Indian girl" named "Raven."
Coolidge was also associated with Leon Russell and Joe Cocker. Coolidge's boyfriend, Jim Gordon, assaulted her on the Mad Dogs & Englishmen tour, resulting in a black eye for the remainder of the tour. Coolidge ended the relationship and never spoke to him again. Gordon was later diagnosed with schizophrenia and found guilty of murdering his mother.
Kris Kristofferson was married to Coolidge from 1973 to 1980. Casey Kristofferson, their daughter and their only child, was born in 1974. They lost their marriage after she miscarried her second child in 1977. Delta Lady, Coolidge, described her relationship to Kristofferson as volatile due to her alcoholism and infidelity. She said she was also physically abused and that her ability would belittleed. She did not ask him for anything when they divorced. Coolidge told People that she and Kristofferson also shared a common bond in 2016.
In the Cook Islands, Coolidge married Tatsuya Suda, the world's best computer architecture researcher, on June 19, 2004. Suda, a Japanese citizen, retired in 2010 after a long career as a professor at the Donald Bren School of Information and Computer Sciences (UC Irvine), where claims of professional misconduct against him first surfaced. He pleaded guilty to a criminal charge of receiving unlawful payments in 2014. Suda was divorced in 2012. Coolidge was born in Fallbrook, California, where she drew and displayed her art until 2017.
Coolidge rekindled a love with Joe Hutto, a former college friend. They married in 2018 and then moved to Tallahassee.
Priscilla, Coolidge's sister, was assassinated by her husband Michael Siebert in a murder/suicide in October, 2014. Siebert's ashes were delivered to Rita's house, and she had to dispose of them.
Life and career
Coolidge was born in Lafayette, Tennessee. She is the daughter of Dick and Charlotte Coolidge, a minister and schoolteacher, with sisters Linda and Priscilla, and brother Raymond. She is of Cherokee and Scottish ancestry. She attended Nashville's Maplewood High School and graduated from Andrew Jackson Senior High School in Jacksonville, Florida. Coolidge is a graduate of Florida State University. She is a member of Alpha Gamma Delta sorority.
After singing around Memphis (including a stint singing jingles), Coolidge was discovered by Delaney & Bonnie, who worked with her in Los Angeles. There, she became a backing singer for artists including Leon Russell, Joe Cocker, Harry Chapin, Bob Dylan, Jimi Hendrix, Eric Clapton, Dave Mason, Graham Nash, and Stephen Stills. She was featured in Joe Cocker's Mad Dogs and Englishmen tour and album, singing Russell's and Bonnie Bramlett's song "Superstar". Coolidge did not receive songwriting credits for "Superstar" which later became a hit for The Carpenters.
She became known as "The Delta Lady" and inspired Russell to write a song of the same name for her.
Coolidge didn't receive songwriting credits for the coda in the 1971 single "Layla" by Eric Clapton's band Derek and the Dominos. In 2016, Coolidge stated that she recorded a demo with her boyfriend, the band's drummer Jim Gordon, before they went to England to record with Clapton. Once they met with Clapton, Coolidge played the piece she composed for him and she gave him a cassette. Clapton, impressed by the piece, used it as part of the song in the coda section which she found out by hearing the song over the PA system a year later. She tried to contact Clapton, but was told by his manager Robert Stigwood, "What are you gonna do? You’re a girl. You don't have money to fight this." She hasn't heard from Clapton himself but believes he is aware of the situation.
Though only Gordon has been officially credited with this part, the band's keyboardist Bobby Whitlock claimed:
"Time" ended up on the 1973 album Chronicles by Booker T. and Priscilla.
In November 1970, she met Kris Kristofferson at the Los Angeles airport when they were both catching the same flight to Tennessee. Instead of continuing to his intended destination in Nashville, he got off in Memphis with her. The two married in 1973, had a child in 1974, and recorded several duet albums, which sold well and earned the duo a Grammy Award for Best Country Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocal in 1974 for "From the Bottle to the Bottom", and in 1976 for "Lover Please".
Coolidge's greatest success on the pop charts came during 1977–1978 with four consecutive top 25 hits, remakes of Jackie Wilson's "(Your Love Keeps Lifting Me) Higher and Higher", Boz Scaggs' "We're All Alone", the Temptations' "The Way You Do The Things You Do", and Marcia Hines' "You". Coolidge and Kristofferson divorced in June 1980.
In 1992, Coolidge sang joint lead vocals with Roger Waters on the title track of his album Amused to Death.
She also was among the first hosts on VH1, a U.S. cable network. In 2006, she recorded a standards album, And So Is Love.
In 1997, Coolidge was one of the founding members of Walela, a Native American music trio, that also included her sister Priscilla and her daughter Laura Satterfield. The trio released studio albums in 1997 (Walela) and 2000 (Unbearable Love), a live album and DVD (Live in Concert) in 2004 and a compilation album (The Best of Walela) in 2007.
Walela means hummingbird in Cherokee. Coolidge considered this group important, not only in honoring her Cherokee ancestors but also in bringing their culture to others. The trio performed at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta.
Her autobiography, Delta Lady: A Memoir, was published in April 2016.