THORNETTA DAVIS
International singer, songwriter, recording artist, and SAG/AFTRA member Thornetta Davis was the winner of the 2023 Blues Foundation Blues Music Award for Best Soul/Blues Artist – Female and the Detroit Blues Society’s Living Lifetime Achievement Award. She also received a star on the Canada South Blues Museum Walk of Fame. In 2015, Thornetta was crowned Detroit’s Queen of the Blues! in a ceremony by the Detroit Blues Society featuring proclamations from the City of Detroit, County of Wayne, and the State of Michigan. Her labor of love CD, entitled Honest Woman, was nominated by the Blues Foundation for two 2017 Blues Music Awards – Best Song (“I gotta sang the blues”) and Emerging Artist CD. Thornetta has won more than 30 Detroit Music Awards, including eight in 2017 (including Outstanding Record Producer, Outstanding Blues Recording, Outstanding Blues Vocalist, and Outstanding Live Performance). The winner of the 2017 Blues Blast Magazine Music Awards for Best Soul/Blues Album and Big City Rhythm & Blues Magazine’s “Coolest Blues Song, Thornetta has garnered international attention by winning the prestigious French 2018 La Academie du Jazz Award for Best Blues Album.