Iconography: Etta James

(image taken from Lipstick Alley)

(image taken from NY Daily News)

(image taken from LA Times)

(image taken from Rolling Stone)

It is always troubling when a beautiful voice and an incredible woman are doused, by inevitable senescence and time, however, she was surely suffering unbearably towards the end. Though she struggled much, particularly with the demons of addiction, she also overcame and achieved much.