{"id":81809,"date":"2026-05-24T18:00:04","date_gmt":"2026-05-24T18:00:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/patti-labelle-on-being-called-a-legend-i-have-earned-it\/"},"modified":"2026-05-24T18:00:04","modified_gmt":"2026-05-24T18:00:04","slug":"patti-labelle-on-being-called-a-legend-i-have-earned-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/patti-labelle-on-being-called-a-legend-i-have-earned-it\/","title":{"rendered":"Patti LaBelle on being called a legend: &#8220;I have earned it&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- ItShrt World News -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"1882483372\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<p>Patti LaBelle has been singing for six decades, earning hit records, Grammys and the nickname the &#8220;Godmother of Soul.&#8221; As she celebrates her 82nd birthday on Sunday, she said she&#8217;s &#8220;having fun living it down.&#8221;\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;At 82, I am really living it down, not up. But having fun living it down. I play cards. We have card games on Saturday nights,&#8221; LaBelle said. &#8220;How easy is it to play cards and take other folks&#8217; money? That&#8217;s what I do, and I love it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Just like her high notes, she has staying power. LaBelle is still professionally singing, something she said she has to do.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Singing is my life,&#8221; she said, adding that her voice is &#8220;big. It&#8217;s loud. It&#8217;s soft. It can rap. It can do opera, on a good day.&#8221;\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>LaBelle spent her childhood in Philadelphia, a place she still calls home. Back then, she was a shy girl named Patsy Holt.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;My mother had to pay me to go outside. I was very, very, very shy. I would sing in my bedroom with the broom as a microphone. So I knew I had a voice and my mother and father loved my voice,&#8221; LaBelle said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>At age 10, she joined a church choir where a duet unlocked the magic of performing. She said she still remembers getting the chills the moment when everyone stood up and said, &#8220;Hallelujah.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>As a teen, she started singing with a group. A record label executive suggested she change her name to LaBelle, which means beautiful, but with that advice came a nasty assessment. He called her &#8220;quite ugly.&#8221;\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It gave me hurt, just total, total hurt, because I knew how much he loved my voice. And I knew, no matter what anyone said about me, I am who I am, I&#8217;m not gonna change. The only thing that changed was my nose. I had a huge nose, so I had it done,&#8221; she said. &#8220;And that&#8217;s all I&#8217;ve ever had done. My nose, because it was not pleasing to me.&#8221;\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>When Patti LaBelle and the Blue Belles became simply Labelle, they changed their style to what the singer described as &#8220;outrageous crazy outfits.&#8221; They turned &#8220;Lady Marmalade,&#8221; a song about a Creole prostitute, into a classic hit.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We were singing about the revolution and sexual things before any Black girl or White girl group sang,&#8221; LaBelle said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;When we sang [Lady Marmalade], we didn&#8217;t know what &#8216;voulez-vous coucher avec moi&#8217; meant. It means, &#8216;Will you sleep with me tonight?&#8217; So we got a lotta flak from the nuns and different people. And I was saying, at that time, &#8216;Well, a hooker has to make money too,'&#8221; she laughed.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The group split in 1977 but stayed friends. LaBelle said she was petrified when she stepped out as a solo artist for the first time. Getting therapy &#8220;helped a whole lot,&#8221; she said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I learned that I&#8217;m never gonna stop singing. And if it&#8217;s with a group or alone, that&#8217;s what I&#8217;m gonna do for the rest of my life,&#8221; LaBelle said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>LaBelle&#8217;s other talent is cooking. She&#8217;s written several bestselling cookbooks and has her own line of food and houseware products, Patti&#8217;s Good Life. Her hometown is filled with fans, and even visiting a Philadelphia ShopRite to hand out pancake mix caused quite a stir. \u00a0<strong><em>\u00a0<br \/><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>LaBelle isn&#8217;t planning to give up singing anytime soon.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s never my last show. I&#8217;ll be singing until I can&#8217;t no more,&#8221; she said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>And on her 82nd birthday, maybe the real gift is that LaBelle knows exactly who she is \u2014 a mother, grandmother, and yes, a legend.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I love it. 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