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Bay Area African American Women in Music:
Veteran R&B singer-songwriter Sugar Pie DeSanto wowed the crowd at the Poretta Soul Festival in Italy last month with renditions of her 1960s hits, "I Want to Know" and "Skip-In Mules" among other songs.
The Oakland resident, who turns 80 in October, is no stranger to performing overseas. The three-day event at Rufus Thomas Park in Poretta Teme, Italy marked her third time in the country.
DeSanto appeared two years ago in a Norwegian village named Hell. Fans who saw her in London and Hamburg in 1964 - on an American Folk Blues Festival tour that also included blues legends Lightnin' Hopkins, Sonny Boy Williamson and Howlin' Wolf- have not...