Ketty Lester: Love Letters
Original Airdates: Feb. 18-20, 2022
TVC 569.1: Ed welcomes Ketty Lester, the Grammy nominated singer/actress known around the world for her international No. 1 record, “Love Letters (Straight from Your Heart),” and as schoolteacher Hester Sue Terhune on Little House on the Prairie. Ketty’s memoir, Ketty Lester: A Memoir, is the story of how a young girl from Hope, Arkansas—the youngest of fifteen children—not only opened doors for many African-American women, but overcame many obstacles throughout her life, including a recurring battle with epilepsy, with the help of her faith and the values she learned from her parents.
Ketty Lester, Maya Angelou, and Oprah Winfrey
Original Airdates: Feb. 18-20, 2022
TVC 569.2: Ketty Lester talks to Ed about working with Maya Angelou when both performed as singers at the Purple Onion in San Francisco; co-starring with Beah Richards on stage in A Raisin in the Sun; playing Patience Jones in Brewster Place (ABC, 1990), the short-lived series produced by and starring Oprah Winfrey; her first national TV appearance (on You Bet Your Life with Groucho Marx); and the important role that singer Dorothy Shay played early in Ketty’s career. Ketty’s memoir, Ketty Lester: A Memoir: From Arkansas to Grammy nominated Love Letters to Little House on the Prairie, is available at Amazon.com and wherever books are sold online. You can follow Ketty Lester on Facebook, Instagram and KettyLester.com.
Part 2 of our conversation with Ketty Lester, covering Little House on the Prairie, Blacula, and other aspects of her music and acting careers, will air next week on our Feb. 25-27 program.
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