There’s also the stage at the Academy of Music, where this month Patti will stomp and strut and sing her face off as part of her latest tour. There was the White House, where Patti belted “Over the Rainbow” for the Obamas in 2014, and, the following year, there was the Los Angeles ballroom of Dancing With the Stars, where a 70-year-old Patti shimmied to rapper 50 Cent’s “In Da Club.” There was Philly’s old JFK Stadium, where Patti outsang more than 100 other vocalists during the 1985 Live Aid “We Are the World” finale. There was New York’s Metropolitan Opera House, where, in 1974, Patti - dressed in silver feathers like a fabulous space-age peacock - descended from the ceiling to join her fellow Labelle bandmates. There was the altar of Beulah Baptist Church in West Philadelphia, where a 12-year-old Patti earned her first standing ovation. When you’re Patti LaBelle, all the world’s a stage. “I want to sit here! I like to be where the action is.” And with that, Patti LaBelle swings off her red fur coat, looks around the room like a queen surveying her subjects, and smiles warmly, knowingly, at the other diners:
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