Many were partners or family members of James Otis Watson, coal tycoon.

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Born Jamesetta Hawkins in Los Angeles in 1938, it was her first manager and promoter, Johnny Otis, who gave her the name Etta James, cutting up Jamesetta and reversing it.

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