Jazz legend Etta James has been hospitalized with blood poisoning. The Grammy-award winner Etta James was admitted earlier this week, according to her son Sametto James.
The 73-year-old singing icon, who also suffers from leukemia and dementia, was taken to a hospital in Riverside, California, where she was treated for a urinary tract infection and sepsis.
Sepsis is a deadly blood poisoning caused by a bacterial infection. The actual name of the hospital has not been disclosed. Her son Sametto James told The Press Enterprise that she is expected to stay in hospital ‘as long as it takes to clear her infections’. Sametto added: ‘It was a really bad infection’ before stating, ‘right now she’s doing a lot better’.
Etta James had been hospitalized for similar problems in early 2010, which had caused a family legal dispute over the control of her assets and payment of her medical care.
Etta James, best known for her classic ‘At Last’, has won four Grammys and seventeen Blues Music Awards. She was inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame in 1993 and was awarded a Lifetime Achievement Grammy in 2003.
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