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Chicago native Deitra Farr began her career in 1975, singing with local
soul bands, before starting her blues career in the early 1980s.
BIOGRAPHY
Chicago native Deitra Farr began her career in 1975, singing with local
soul bands, before starting her blues career in the early 1980s.
From 1993 to 1996, Deitra Farr was the lead singer with Mississippi
Heat, recording two CD’s with this all-star group. In 1997, Deitra Farr
resumed her own solo career, continuing to sing blues, while reaching
back to her soul music roots.
After recording on eight previous CD projects with others, she recorded
her first solo CD, The Search is Over, for the London-based JSP
records.
In 2005, Deitra released her second JSP CD Let it Go! The
multi-talented Deitra Farr is also a published writer, poet, and
songwriter. A graduate of Columbia College (Bachelor of Arts in
Journalism), Deitra Farr has recorded many of her own compositions and
has written articles for the Chicago Daily Defender, The Chicago Blues
Annual, and the Italian blues magazine il Blues. Currently she has a
column "Artist to Artist" in Living Blues Magazine.
In 1990, Deitra Farr represented the Chicago Tourism Bureau in
Düsseldorf, Germany and has toured England, Iceland, Finland, Norway,
Canada, Holland, Belgium, France, Switzerland, Italy, Yugoslavia,
Greece, Israel, Austria, Latvia, and Portugal. Deitra Farr toured Europe
with the 2000 Chicago Blues Festival with Lil' Ed Williams and the Blues
Imperials.
In 2003, Deitra Farr completed a six week British tour with Otis Grand
and Bobby Parker, as the American Festival of the Blues II.
She did the 2004 Chicago Blues Festival European tour with Jody
Williams and Andrew "Jr. Boy" Jones. Deitra Farr is considered one of
Chicago’s top vocalists, according to Living Blues Magazine (May
1997).
Fiery, energetic, and soul-stirring describes this woman, who has
over the years been nominated for Traditional Female Blues artist of
the year by the W.C. Handy Awards, Female Blues Artist of the year by
the Living Blues Critics Awards, and the British Blues Connection
Awards. The Italian newspaper, The Pistoia La Nationale, proclaimed Deitra
Farr "Regina del Blues". Be a witness.