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; her appearance as 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.

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