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Escort

Through the early 2000s, guitarist/keyboardist Dan Balis and keyboardist Eugene Cho — musicians who fulfilled while going to Vassar College in Poughkeepsie, NY — created and remixed home monitors for the Brique Rogue and Stay True labeling. In June 2006, after choosing to move nearer to home music’s disco root …

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Brass Construction

Vocalist/instrumentalist Randy Muller was on the helm of two pivotal East Coastline funk and disco aggregations in the ’70s and ’80s. One was Brass Structure; the various other was Skyy. Muller, a vocalist and instrumentalist who doubled on keyboards and flute, arranged the music group with drummer Larry Payton, trumpeters …

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GQ

A Bronx group that effectively combined East Coastline disco and Chicago spirit addresses with originals through the past due ’70s and early ’80s, GQ began as Sabu & the Survivors in 1968. Business lead vocalist Emmanuel Rahiem LeBlanc, Keith Crier, Natural herb Street, and Paul Assistance were original people, but …

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Brainstorm

A Detroit ’70s funk music group, Brainstorm recorded for Tabu in the past due ’70s. They were only available in 1976, and something of their people, Renell Gonsalves, was the boy of longtime Ellington sax great Paul Gonsalves. Additional bandmembers had been vocalist Belita Karen Woods, Charles Overton, Jeryl Bright, …

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The Three Degrees

Philly spirit vocal group the 3 Levels were only available in 1963 in Philadelphia, PA. These were uncovered by manufacturer and songwriter Richard Barrett. Barrett was an integral drive for 1950s groupings the Chantels, Small Anthony & the Imperials, Frankie Lymon as well as the Teens, and his very own …

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The Strikers

This NY group had some disco/club hits in the first ’80s for Prelude. Drummer Milton Dark brown, bassist Willie Slaughter, keyboardist Howie Adolescent, guitarist Robert Gilliom, saxophonist Darryl Gibbs, and lead vocalist Ruben Faison got their first achievement with “Body Music” in 1981. It reached the R&B Best 30. The …

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One Way

This is the later identity of the group originally called the Spirit Companions. Al Hudson, Alicia Myers, guitarists Dave Robertson and Cortez Harris, bassist Kevin McCord, and drummers Gregory Green and Jonathan Meadows had been the original A PROVEN WAY. They first documented as One Method Offering Al Hudson before …

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Randy Muller

Maker/songwriter/arranger/keyboardist Randy Muller was the first choice of ’70s disco/funk/pop music group Brass Building, whose “Movin’,” that was made by Jeff Street, became lots one R&B solitary in 1976. Muller also created strikes on Salsoul Information works Skyy and Cameron. He organized B.T. Express’ million-selling 1975 number 1 R&B/quantity four …

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Rafael Cameron

Randy Muller of ’70s disco/funk band Brass Construction (“Movin'”) produced Georgetown, Guyana, indigenous Rafael Cameron’s biggest early-’80s hits, “Magic of You (Just like the Way)” and “Funtown U.S.A.” Primarily documenting as Cameron, his silky tenor became an ideal counterpoint to Muller’s brassy funk-driven creation style. Created Rafael Cameron in 1951, …

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People’s Choice

Vocalist/keyboardist Frank Brunson formed People’s Choice in Philadelphia in the first ’70s. Drummer/percussionist David Thompson, vocalists Valerie Dark brown and Marc Reed, guitarists Darnell Jordan and Johnnie Hightower, keyboardists Clifton Gamble and Expenses Rodgers, and bassist/vocalist Stanley Thomas had been in the initial lineup. Regardless of the vocalists, the group’s …

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