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The unsung core of the Engine City rock & roll picture, Mitch Ryder & the Detroit Wheels’ blue-eyed R&B attack boasted a gritty passion and incendiary energy matched by few artists on either side of the colour line. Given birth to William Levise, Jr. in Hamtramck, Michigan on Feb 26, …

A one-off studio room jam featuring indigenous Philadelphia music artists Ahmir Thompson (the Origins, Erykah Badu, Macy Grey, Musiq Soulchild), Christian McBride (McCoy Tyner, Kathleen Fight, Benny Golson, Benny Green, Ray Dark brown), and Uri Caine (Mickey Roker, Robert “Bootsie” Barnes, Don Byron), the Philadelphia Test players met for three …

Probably the most successful American performers from the 1960s, the Supremes for a while rivaled even the Beatles with regards to red-hot commercial appeal, reeling off five number 1 singles inside a row at one point. Essential revisionism offers tended to undervalue the Supremes’ achievements, categorizing their are more lightweight …

Wayne Anthony Carmichael produced and arranged the strikes from the Commodores in addition to those of the group’s past business lead singer and primary songwriter Lionel Richie, including his ten-million-selling LP Can’t DECELERATE. Besides being associated with their number 1 million-selling strikes for Motown Information, Carmichael also performed piano on …

Remy Shand emerged to the neo-soul circuit in 2002 with JUST HOW PERSONALLY I THINK, a potent cannon of tunes inspired by vintage Motown and Memphis spirit. Mainly home-schooled in his indigenous Vancouver, Shand started raiding his parents record collection young — bathing in an array of jazz, spirit, and …

With over 25 platinum and platinum album awards, Vincent Montana, Jr. is actually a musical achievement story. Through the ’70s and ’80s, the multi-talented composer/arranger/conductor/percussionist/bandleader and renowned vibraharpist was an associate of MFSB, the studio room home music group for Gamble & Huff’s Philadelphia International Information (PIR), and later on …

Originally from Yazoo City, Mississippi, Mike James Kirkland was raised singing doo wop and gospel. Ultimately settling in California, Kirkland and his sibling started an archive label, Bryan Information, release a the love tunes and socially mindful spirit music that Kirkland have been writing. Both albums they released — HOLD …

Among Washington, D.C.’s pioneering vocal organizations, the Rainbows documented three singles entitled after women’s titles: “Mary Lee,” “Shirley,” and “Minnie.” “Mary Lee” premiered on Morgan “Bobby” Robinson’s Reddish Robin label in 1955; the Rainbows on that record contains lead vocalist Ronald “Posie” Kilometers, John Berry, along with other unfamiliar members …

A short-lived group, the Displays had only 1 discharge on Motown from November 1965 to August 1968. The group contains Richard Road, Warren Harris, and Sandra and John Fagin (it’s unclear if the Fagins had been siblings or even a few). Harris acquired attended Northwestern SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL in Detroit …

Since his days as an associate from the Beatnigs whilst in his early twenties, Michael Franti grew from an angry young hip-hopper using a political, socially conscious bent (the Disposable Heroes of Hiphoprisy, Spearhead) to a guy who channeled his seriousness, social unease, and desire to have change and merged …