Earlier this year, she was hired as an advocate for the Covid vaccine in New Jersey. Later in life she recorded gospel music, worked as a motivational speaker, and did charity work. TRENTON Sarah Dash, the acclaimed Trenton native songwriter, actress and co-founder of Patti LaBelle & The Bluebelles, died Monday in Trenton. Sarah Dash was an awesomely talented, beautiful, and loving soul who blessed my life and the lives of so many others in more ways than I can say, wrote LaBelle. She joined Keith Richards’ backing band the X-pensive Winos, and recorded vocals for the Rolling Stones’ album Steel Wheels. Sarah Dash, March 2012 (D Dipasupil/FilmMagic) Sara Dash, the singer and founder of R&B group Labelle best known for their hit Lady Marmalade, died on Monday. The co-founding member of iconic R&B girl group Labelle. In the interim, Dash released four solo albums, and worked as a session singer for Nile Rodgers, the O’Jays and others. Sarah Dash of Labelle fame has passed away at the age of 76. Labelle released two further albums before going on a long hiatus, fully reforming in 2008 for the album Back to Now. Later, in the UK, cover versions by All Saints (1998), and by Christina Aguilera, Lil’ Kim, Mýa, and Pink for the Moulin Rouge soundtrack (2001), both reached No 1. 'The legendary Sarah Dash was celebrated for her enormous musical talent not only in Mercer County but on the world’s stage throughout her 50-plus year career in the entertainment industry. Major mainstream success evaded them until 1974 album Nightbirds, when its lead single Lady Marmalade, a raunchy tale of a New Orleans sex worker lighting up a client’s dull life, topped the US charts.
With Dash celebrated for her emotive, versatile voice that spanned soprano prettiness and robustly soulful singing, the group branched out, backing Laura Nyro, and covering the Who and touring with them. Dash was one of the founding members of the all-female group Labelle, which was known for the hit 'Lady Marmalade.' DeMarco Morgan and Suzanne Marques report. Her death was announced on social media by Patti LaBelle and Nona Hendryx. Photograph: John Bryson/Shutterstockīirdsong left in 1967 and joined the Supremes, with the remaining trio naming themselves Labelle. Sarah Dash, a founding member of the groundbreaking, million-selling vocal trio Labelle, died on Monday. Labelle in 1975, from left: Patti LaBelle, Nona Hendryx and Sarah Dash.
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