By Joe Lynch, Billboard Betty Davis, the pioneering funk singer who released three albums of raw, gritty and sexually liberated music in the ’70s, has died at age 77, Rolling Stone has confirmed.

Trailblazing funk musician Betty Davis has died ... the statement reads. Davis' close friend and collaborator Danielle Maggio told Fox News Digital that the singer died of natural causes.

Betty Davis, a free-spirited ... she retreated from the music industry in the late ’70s, fading from public view. By then, she had helped alter the trajectory of jazz through her relationship ...

NEW YORK -- Betty Davis, a bold and pioneering funk singer, model and songwriter of the 1960s and '70s who was credited with inspiring then-husband Miles Davis' landmark fusion of jazz and more ...

The film’s London-based director Phil Cox calls Betty Davis “the Greta Garbo” of the music industry because the reclusive Davis shuns interviews and photographers, preferring to be left alone.

Betty Davis, the music and performance luminary who was at the forefront of funk, died on February 9 of natural causes. She was 77. Betty Davis was the evidence of cool hoped for and the proof of ...

Betty Davis was an American singer, songwriter, and model. She was known for her controversial sexually-oriented lyrics and performance style, and for being the second wife of trumpeter Miles Davis.

BETTY Davis, better known as The Queen of Funk, has passed away at 77. The singer’s friend Danielle ... she received backlash in the mid-'70s due to her sexually explicit lyrics and performance ...

Morrison says the music she released in the '70s was bold, brash and uncompromising. "In a way, Betty Davis was punk before punk," he says. In this session, Morrison talks about how Davis was ...

The result was Betty Davis (★★★★★), an avant-garde ’70s funk LP that is simultaneously free and ... but also in how Davis and her singers move within the songs, stepping out of the groove (Game Is My ...