P.P. Arnold

January Blues Festival presents P.P. ARNOLD + special guests P.P. Arnold is affectionately known as London's First Lady of Soul. Born Patricia Ann Cole in Los Angeles, California, she grew up singing gospel before joining Ike & Tina Turner's Ikettes in the mid-1960s. Arriving in Britain in 1966, she attracted the attention of Mick Jagger, who helped secure her a recording contract with Andrew Loog Oldham's Immediate Records. Her acclaimed albums The First Lady of Immediate (1967) and Kafunta (1968) established her as a major figure in the Swinging Sixties, producing timeless classics...