November 11, 2023
Biography
A Canadian gospel quartet, Newworldson were formed in the waning many years of the first 10 years from the 21st hundred years, and within a short while found themselves being successful awards and using a number of the genre’s titans. Acquiring musical cues from such luminaries as Jamie Cullum, Stevie …
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November 7, 2023
Biography
Vocalist, pianist, and composer Tommy Edwards began executing in Richmond when he was 9. He produced his first influence in R&B circles in 1946, composing “That Chick’s As well Youthful to Fry.” He started recording for top level in 1949 and acquired his first strike in 1951 with “YET AGAIN” …
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November 6, 2023
Biography
Since he was an adolescent, Tom Scott continues to be consistent, a talented multi-reedist with little if any interest in performing creative jazz. His mom was a pianist and dad a composer. Scott in early stages became a studio room musician and arranger. In a position to play most reeds …
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November 5, 2023
Biography
Although he recorded frequently through the 1950s and 1960s, R&B singer Titus Turner today remains to be best known like a composer, authoring such perennials as “Leave My Kitten Alone,” “All over the World,” and “Sticks and Stones.” Given birth to in Atlanta, GA, in 1933, Turner produced his documented …
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November 4, 2023
Biography
Although his songs were included in the Beatles, the Rolling Stones, and Elvis Presley, country-soul pioneer Arthur Alexander continues to be largely unknown to the overall listening audience — however, his music may be the stuff of genius, a poignant and deeply intimate body of focus on par with the …
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November 3, 2023
Biography
Aretha Franklin is among the giants of spirit music, and even of American pop all together. More than every other performer, she epitomized spirit at its most gospel-charged. Her amazing run of past due-’60s strikes with Atlantic Information — “Respect,” “I Hardly ever Loved a guy,” “String of Fools,” “Baby …
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October 25, 2023
Biography
As the longtime backing singers behind R&B immortal Ray Charles, the Raelettes deftly navigated the tightrope separating the sacred as well as the profane, infusing their gospel-inspired call-and-response vocals with a robust eroticism that vaulted Charles to new degrees of commercial and creative triumph. The root base from the Raelettes …
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October 24, 2023
Biography
Throughout their long careers as both solo performers so that as members of the group that bore their family name, the Neville Brothers proudly carried the torch of their native New Orleans’ rich R&B legacy. Even though the four siblings — Arthur, Charles, Aaron, and Cyril — didn’t officially unite …
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October 21, 2023
Biography
After finding popular in the first ’90s within the dance-pop group Legacy of Audio, Meja went on her behalf own and became a significant popular solo act in European countries and Japan, though success in the us was slower to come, unlike her Swedish comrades ABBA, Ace of Bottom as …
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October 13, 2023
Biography
Marlena Shaw has become the versatile and charismatic jazz vocalists around the picture today. Her shows are designated by an artful mixture of pop requirements and straight-ahead jazz music. Her extroverted stage existence gives her an advantage over additional vocalists, and obviously, performing live before an target audience is usually …
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