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V.V. Brown

Vanessa Dark brown, alternately referred to as V.V. Dark brown, is an British songwriter and performer who stepped out in 2005 using a co-writing credit for the Pussycat Dolls’ PCD (“I Don’t Want a guy,” a cooperation with Affluent Harrison, Kara DioGuardi, and Nicole Scherzinger). That season, she also released …

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Art Neville

Being a founding person in the Meters and Neville Brothers, New Orleans vocalist and keyboardist Artwork Neville helped immeasurably to form the contemporary New Orleans funk audio. Neville’s first music group, the Hawketts, tasted regional achievement in 1954 using the carnival perennial “Mardi Gras Mambo” on Chess. He cut some …

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The Pointer Sisters

The Pointer Sisters were as chameleonic as David Bowie, or even more so. The sibling group supported Elegance Slick and Boz Scaggs, produced halts at Sesame Road as well as the Grand Ole Opry, received a nation Grammy, and made an appearance in the film Car Clean, all before rating …

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Sarah Dash

A founding person in the favorite 1960s female spirit group Patti LaBelle & the Blue Belles, Sarah Dash continued to pursue a number of outlets on her behalf creative talents. Furthermore to documenting four impressive single albums, Dash provides sung on albums with the Marshall Tucker Music group, Laura Nyro, …

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Loleatta Holloway

It may shock some that perennial dance diva Loleatta Holloway’s highest charting single record was a soulful ballad, “Cry if you ask me.” Still, Holloway is most beneficial known for dancefloor workout routines like “Appreciate Feeling,” “Strike and Operate,” and “TRY TO ESCAPE.” Blessed in Chicago in 1946, Holloway created …

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Eighties Ladies

Beneath the direction of Roy Ayers, the Eighties Ladies released one album, Ladies from the ’80s, in 1980. The group was a quintet of vocalists offering Sylvia Striplin, Marva Hicks, Susan Beaubian, Vivian Prince, and Denie Corbett. Girls from the ’80s, released on Ayers’ Uno Melodic imprint, didn’t do very …

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Dumpstaphunk

The diverse New Orleans-based funk and jam band Dumpstaphunk was formed in the first 2000s simply by Ivan Neville and his cousin, Ian Neville (son of Art Neville). The group’s initial record was a live time from the brand new Orleans Jazz and Traditions Festival. Their studio room debut was …

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The Staple Singers

The Staples’ story goes completely back again to 1915 in Winona, Mississippi, when patriarch Roebuck “Pops” Staples entered the planet. A modern and familiar of Charley Patton’s, Roebuck quickly became adept being a single blues guitarist, engaging at regional dances and picnics. He was also attracted to the cathedral, and …

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The Velvelettes

The Velvelettes had three small chart hits for Motown within the mid-’60s, including “He REALLY WAS Sayin’ Somethin’,” revived with great success in Britain by Bananarama in the first ’80s, and “Needle within a Haystack,” which almost made the pop Top 40. Quite definitely within the Motown girl-group mildew shared …

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Happy Mondays

Combined with the Rock Roses, Content Mondays were the leaders from the later-’80s/early-’90s dance club-influenced Manchester scene, experiencing a short moment in the spotlight before collapsing in 1992. As the Rock Roses were located in ’60s pop, adding just hook hint of dance music, Happy Mondays immersed themselves within the …

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