Powerhouse R&B singer and actress Sarah Dash has died at age 76, according to Trenton, N.J. Mayor Reed Gusciora.
“Our resident legend and Trenton’s very first music ambassador, Sarah Dash, has passed away,” Gusciora wrote on Facebook today.
A Trenton native, Dash was co-founder of Patti Labelle & The Bluebelles, which opened for The Rolling Stones in the 1960s. With LaBelle, Dash went on to co-found the pioneering R&B/rock group LaBelle, with Nona Hendryx and Patti LaBelle, which was more adventurous musically and sartorially than its predecessor.
The group hit its peak in the mid-’70s with the song “Lady Marmalade,” which went to number one on the Billboard Hot 100 chart.
