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Getting authorized to main label EMI may be the dream of a lot of singers, but alternative rock and roll singer Christia Mantzke discovered it was keeping her back again. The California-born vocalist had originally centered on the golf club scene but quickly discovered it wasn’t a perfect match. In …

London-born Simone Wilson, aka Monie Like, was featured in Queen Latifah’s one “Ladies Initial” while even now a teenager. Her CDs being a leader have already been erratic, frequently suggesting a lot more than they shipped, though they’ve generally contained one or more solid single. After Right down to Globe, …

Greek beauty and singing feeling Anna Vissi has recorded several wonderful albums, earning her an extraordinary string of strikes. Her musical variety glides easily from opera to like ballads to pop/rock and roll, and through the vocabulary of her homeland to British. Besides having her function go yellow metal, platinum, …

Blessed March 13, 1940, in Hanceville, AL, Candi Stanton sang using the Jewell Gospel Trio as an adolescent. They toured the original gospel circuit in the 1950s using the Spirit Stirrers, C.L. Franklin, and Mahalia Jackson. They documented several edges for Nashboro, Apollo, and Savoy Information between 1953 and 1963. …

The frontman for the cult-favorite power pop music group the Rooks, singer/songwriter Michael Mazzarella produced his solo debut in 1997 using the LP Ways of a Mad Rook (blueprints in dark & white), a limited-edition assortment of demos and house recordings.

Nina Simone was probably one of the most gifted vocalists of her era, and also probably one of the most eclectic. Simone was a vocalist, pianist, and songwriter who bent styles to her will instead of allowing herself to become limited by their limitations; her function swung backwards and forwards …

Mighty Mo Rodgers (actual name Maurice Rodgers) was created in Indiana where his father possessed a club that presented blues performers. When Rodgers wasn’t learning traditional piano he was looking into the blues performers that performed there. We were young, Rodgers was deeply suffering from the mid-’60s spirit music from …

Created in 1939 in Chicago, Mavis Staples accomplished wide recognition as lead singer for the Staple Singers. She 1st recorded single for Stax subsidiary Volt in 1969. Following attempts included a Curtis Mayfield-produced soundtrack on Curtom, a unsatisfactory nod to disco for Warner in 1979, a misguided stab at electro-pop …

When Mary J. Blige’s debut recording, What’s the 411?, strike the road in July 1992, critics and enthusiasts had been floored by its effective combination of contemporary R&B and edgy rap creation that glanced from the discomfort and grit from the singer’s NY upbringing. In comparison to Chaka Khan and …

Although she’s not really a household name, Marva Whitney is fondly remembered by funk devotees among the rawest, brassiest, most effective divas the music ever produced. Alongside fellow funk belters Lyn Collins and Vicki Anderson, Whitney produced her name performing using the Adam Brown Revue for a couple years, and …