Real name: Bertha Bearden Dorsey

Effective period / Period of releases: 1975 - 1978

American country music singer and songwriter.
Born January 16, 1946 in Jackson, Tennessee.
Died June 15, 1986 in Nashville, Tennessee (age of 40).
She began singing at a young age, in church or at local events. When she was a teenager, she moved to Milwaukee, Wisconsin and became a professional entertainer, working with several local bands including Harvey Scales and the Seven Sounds as their lead singer.
She charted nationally nine times as a singer and twice as a songwriter in the country music field between 1975 and 1979, one of the first African-American women to have a career in the genre. Her top song charted was "You've Got to Mend This Heartache" in 1977, which hit #40 (co-written by her and Charles Fields, Donald Riis).
She was nominated as country music's most promising female vocalist in 1975.