Rescue Me singer Fontella Bass dies at 72, weeks after heart attack
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In this Sep. 2, 2001 file photo, Fontella Bass performs at the Big Muddy Blues Festival on Laclede's Landing in St. Louis. American soul singer Fontella Bass, best known for her hit song Rescue Me, died on Wednesday night at age 72, weeks after suffering a heart attack. -- PHOTO: AP
LOS ANGELES (AFP) - American soul singer Fontella Bass, best known for her hit song Rescue Me, died on Wednesday night at age 72, weeks after suffering a heart attack.
Her family said the R&B, soul and gospel singer died at a hospital in her hometown of St. Louis, Missouri after complications arose from a December 2 heart attack, according to a local newspaper.
"Yes, sadly it's true," an employee of New York ad agency Universal Attractions, which worked with Bass, confirmed to AFP. The employee asked not to be named.
Born in St. Louis in 1940, the artist achieved her first success in the mid-1960s with a recording of Don't Mess Up A Good Thing by soul singer Bobby McClure.
