Odetta, the deep-voiced folk singer whose ballads and songs became for many a sound track to the American civil rights movement, has died aged 77, the New York Times reported on Wednesday.

The Times cited Odetta's manager, Doug Yeager, as saying she died of a heart attack. It did not give a time or place of death.

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The Times said Rosa Parks, the woman who launched the boycott of segregated buses in Montgomery, Alabama, was once asked which songs meant the most to her. "All the songs Odetta sings," was Parks' reply.

Rest In Peace, Odetta.

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