{"name":"Rita Coolidge","title":"Rita Coolidge","id":602,"slug":"rita-coolidge","url":"https://www.guitarparty.com/api/v3/core/authors/602/?format=json","bio_short":"Rita Coolidge (born May 1, 1945, in Lafayette, Tennessee) is an American Singer.  Coolidge's early career was as a backing vocalist, for artists such as <a href=\"http://www.last.fm/music/Joe+Cocker\" class=\"bbcode_artist\">Joe Cocker</a>, <a href=\"http://www.last.fm/music/Eric+Clapton\" class=\"bbcode_artist\">Eric Clapton</a>, and <a href=\"http://www.last.fm/music/Leon+Russell\" class=\"bbcode_artist\">Leon Russell</a>. Her performance of &quot;Superstar&quot; on the Cocker/Russell Mad Dogs and Englishmen album helped gain her attention. She became known as &quot;The Delta Lady&quot; and inspired Leon Russell to write a song of the same name for her. It was during this time that she met <a href=\"http://www.last.fm/music/Kris+Kristofferson\" class=\"bbcode_artist\">Kris Kristofferson</a>; the two married in 1973.","artist_img":"//guitarparty.overcastcdn.com/images/RitaCoolidge.2e16d0ba.fill-1200x675-c100.format-jpeg.jpg","songs":[{"id":859,"title":"All time high","url":"https://www.guitarparty.com/songs/all-time-high/"},{"id":26744,"title":"We're all alone","url":"https://www.guitarparty.com/songs/were-all-alone/"}]}