Marvin Sease

Despite too little attention from most printing sources along with other common avenues of publicity within the blues globe, Marvin Sease has switched his clean, X-rated ladies’ guy persona right into a cottage industry filled with merchandising within the Deep South. Sease straddles the collection between blues and gospel-drenched spirit, similar to fellow Southern performers Johnnie Taylor and Tyrone Davis, but his frequently racy lyrics and concert shows, coupled with advantages of major-label distribution, possess ensured Sease a solid following, especially among female followers enamored of his personal song and discovery jukebox strike, the provocative, innuendo-laced “Chocolate Licker.” Given birth to in Blackville, S.C., Sease got his begin by becoming a member of a gospel group in close by Charleston known as the Five Gospel Performers, and relocated to NY at age group 20, where he became a member of another gospel group known as the Gospel Crowns. Preferring R&B, though, Sease come up with a backing music group (known as Sease) offering his three brothers. When this endeavor failed, Sease started performing to pre-recorded support tracks at regional dances and night clubs, self-released many 45s, and finally scored a normal gig in a Brooklyn nightspot known as the Casablanca. Gunning for higher success, Sease documented a self-titled LP in 1986 offering one of is own most popular tunes, “Ghetto Guy,” and started operating the South’s so-called chitlin circuit of ghetto pubs, rural juke bones, and blues celebrations. While buying the LP, released by himself Early label, to record shops, Sease discovered a get in touch with who ultimately got him a cope with Polygram, which re-released the LP on London/Mercury in 1987 with the help of the newly documented, ten-minute monitor “Chocolate Licker.” “Candy Licker” became an underground achievement on jukeboxes over the South; it had been as well explicit for radio airplay, but viewers — especially woman types — flocked to find out Sease in concert. On the next a decade, Sease documented a string of albums for London/Mercury (Breakfast time, 1987; THE REAL THING, 1989; Display Me EVERYTHING YOU Got, 1991) and the brand new York-based Jive (The Housekeeper, 1993; Perform You will need a Licker?, 1994; Make sure you Consider Me, 1996) that offered regularly well, although non-e have yet matched up the efficiency of Marvin Sease, which strike amount 14 on Billboard’s R&B graph and amount 114 for the pop graph. Several more produces were issued prior to the ’90s found an in depth: Bitch Git EVERYTHING (1997), Hoochie Momma (1999). Females Would Rather End up being Licked was released in early 2001. The live Disc Live with the Chocolate Licker both made an appearance in 2005.