My Name is Ottilie

SINOPSIS

Soul singer Dana Masters traces the story of Ottilie Patterson, who for a dazzling few years in the late 1950s and early 1960s was a pioneer of British music. One night in 1959, a 27-year-old female singer took to the stage at Muddy Waters' renowned blues club in Chicago. After a stunning set, a member of the rapturous African-American audience called out: Hey lady, you sing real pretty. How come you sing like one of us? The singer was Ottilie Patterson. And she wasn't black.