Sugar Pie Desanto

[fitment]

Wow! If you appreciate the blues, this is a must see.

[BILLYnKAREN]

Why do people still watch XFactor? (not my name for it) when there's artists like this, who obviously have the X Factor, here on youtube. Simon Cowell eat your heart out, you'll never discover talent like this. What a lady, what a talent, love you Sugar Pie babe xxxxxxxx

[omegamorgan]

Sugarpie....God Bless You...ln that Soulful Dress

[ThenurVraxJam]

This Woman got that fire! Legend

[SKOTP69]

She's still got it!

[ebonerobinson]

She didn't do any somersaults though.

[ebonerobinson]

Met her yesterday at a bar in oakland. Still super spunky. She's a really nice lady. She's the best! Thanks for the video!

[JVagnone25]

5.54.... lol YUP!!!.....Id hit it :-D

[shadeofblue2004]

hot dog I wanna be like her when I grow up.... hahaha what an amazing woman! grandma's gone wild? ;)

[blues4sale]

World class act!

[HerbertReid]

if shes alive I want to book her !

[Mxicanbombshell]

@HerbertReid

SugarPie is very much alive she lives in San Francisco/Oakland. She puts on a great show.

[Mxicanbombshell]

@HerbertReid

[slowbluesmaster]

Superb !

[mikidou99]

Hahaha what goes on at 2:36 ?!

Does she fall or is that all planned hahaha!

That was so weird and unexpected!

It felt like a weird bad movie or something hahaha!!

[GoddessQueen4life]

@mikidou99 ...u no wat!......lol

[regusted]

@mikidou99 I think it was planned, like the James Brown falls on the TAMI show!

[shonuffido]

Sugar Pie you certainly are a lady of "Clarss". Thanks for posting this. I would love to see this lady live. She still kicks ass!

[Paulsworks]

She's just as good as ever... SMOKIN' Band!!!

[Sequal78]

Wow! This video is one of those wonderful surprises! When you start off browsing trough Youtube starting on a simple songtitle or word, and one thing leads to another and all of a sudden you end up watching and listening to something like this, like her ..... amazing! Thanks!

[NickOLarse999]

@Sequal78 Just like you I stumbled on this. You are right...it is superb. There needs to be more music in the streets, like this, people just performing because they love to perform.

[christinasiddorn]

Thats what dreams are made of !! XX

[JacKass00001]

Still live and kickin'??

This little troll sounds like Etta James, she sung in the same quire as Etta, and no fuckin' soul could belive the amount of sound and soul coming of of such a little "mainframe"....

[ukeinfused]

she's coming to the Dakota Jazz Club in Minneapolis... hurrah!

[mangeldeth]

Es injusto que una gran cantate de los años sesenta, quien toco con grandes del blues y en sitios espectaculares, termine cantando en un parqueadero.

[artiechavez]

Love Me Some Sugar Pie !

[d820m]

Etta and Sugar Pie were both discovered by the same man...the still alive and kickin' Johnny Otis.......

[d820m]

check out Sugar Pie singing "A Little Taste Of Soul from 1962 or '63 backed by the James Brown Band.....its on a compilation called "James Brown's Original Funky Divas"....she was a part of the James Brown Revue for two years and, according to her, the only female on his show who didn't sleep with JB.....

[bagbunny]

That woman has more class and energy than the vast majority of performers coming out nowadays. I would love to see in her in person!

[nicademus666]

If you live in the SF Bay Area, she is playing here soon. She lives in Oakland.

[bagbunny]

I wish I did, to see her! But I live on the other side of the country. Thanks for letting me know, though. :)

[dreadhead703]

love this lady!

[strfruit]

it would be awesome to see and hear her and etta togehter !!!

[veeganboy]

They have recorded two duets.

"In the Basement" and "Do I make Myself Clear"

They're evenly matched. Though, I'd give the edge to Etta. But Sugar Pie does what she does better than anyone!

[punkcichlid]

awesome! i was at this performance! it was at the i-hotel in SF.

[kerriober]

Etta and Sugar Pie are cousins, according to the liner notes on my Sugar Pie CD.

[kerriober]

This made my day...

[fatface29]

I can't believe she's 78 years old! Such perfection! better than some of these 20 somethings on stage nowadays! I love it.

[blues4sale]

Pure CLASS! Sugar Pie for ever in my heart!

[merciasound]

This lady sure is something! The stories she has to tell, she's WICKED! In the best sense of the word, TOTALLY AWESOME!

[binsuma]

すげー！

[aja6]

That's loving the blues man!!!!

[JacKass00001]

Jepp. And she has done it from the days the was a fellow choirmate with Etta James. Got a record of her from the late 50's. She sounds like she's twice the size of Etta. I have to admit, I'm pretty shure Sugar has gained at least 20 lbs over the last 50 years...

Blues, soul, jazz, rap or monopoly...

Who fuckin' cares, this is the real deal.

[GoldieGyl]

Very impressive!

[enhager]

I'm a legacy. Great video. Amazing she's on the street. I wish I was in SF.