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Rev. Al Sharpton understand an affordable page written by President Barack Obama with Saturday.

Christina Aguilera along with Stevie Wonder were concerning all those paying homage that will singer Etta James during an individual funeral used Saturday.

Held at the Greater Bethany Community Church City associated with Refuge, family and friends remembered this late singer, with Rev. Al Sharpton studying the right note authored by means of President Barack Obama.

In it, your leader expressed this James, throughout Riverside, Calif., "transcended genres" which the actual "At Last" vocalist would be many "remembered with regard to her voice," CNN .

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"I know she'll become sorely overlooked simply by hundreds of that suspected plus adored her," Sharpton read from Obama's letter.

A tearful along with emotional Aguilera sang James' "At Last" (watch this overall performance below) even though Wonder performed "Shelter in the Rain" and "The Lord's Prayer."

During Sharpton's eulogy, he or she observed James' modest upbringing within Southern California, observing that your lady started out being a lady singing gospel in church.

"I feel ?t had been your ex authenticity this was component of the charm which drew people for you to the girl . It seemed to be Etta James which bridged tempo and blues with are a blast and roll," Sharpton said.

Though Saturday's funeral, which in turn began with twelve a.m., appeared to be to get good friends and family, many enthusiasts anxiously waited to go to that public taking a look at at Inglewood Cemetery Mortuary.

Since James' death, Billboard accounts of which income have spiked 378 percent.

Late very last year, reports been released the fact that Grammy Award success and Rock and Roll Hall connected with Famer has been terminally ill once your girlfriend live-in doctor a couple of many days sooner expressed her leukemia incurable.

James appeared to be clinically determined last season together with Alzheimer s disease, was hospitalized in 2010 due to the fact of your unsafe staph infectivity along with hospitalized once more within May having a blood infection. Other illnesses ended up self-inflicted: James had a decade-long being addicted heroin that frequently put the woman in psychiatric hospitals intended for several weeks for a time.

The singer, in whose various other sinks into consist of All I Could Do Is Cry, Sunday Kind of Love, Pushover, Tell Mama and also a model of The singer, in whose different strikes include All I Could Do Is Cry, Sunday Kind associated with Love, Pushover, Tell Mama as well as a variation regarding Muddy Waters I Just Want to help Make Love to You, changed amongst blues, R&B, gospel, punk plus rock n rotate while in the girl six-decade career.