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R&B trio Initial Choice — Rochelle Fleming, Joyce Jones, and Annette Visitor — were originally referred to as the Debonettes and performed around Philadelphia. Radio DJ Georgie Woods released the group to Philly spirit guitarist/songwriter/maker Norman Harris, who created Initial Choice’s debut solitary, “This is actually the Home Where Love …

The creation of producer/label-head Dick Griffey and Leon Sylvers, this LA band did light funk and smart dance-pop numbers in the past due ’70s and ’80s. Bassist Kevin Spencer and vocalists Nidra Beard and Linda Carriere comprised the group. They got off to an easy focus on the solitary “I …

Possibly the prototype one-hit question, Jackson, Mississippi vocalist Fern Kinney is at the Poppies alongside Dorothy Moore before she signed with Atlantic. Kinney transferred to Malaco in the past due ’70s, and her cover of Ruler Floyd’s “Groove Me” managed to get in to the R&B Best 30, though neither …

The group Inner Lifestyle spawned a small number of amazing disco singles and three accomplished LPs which have remained as powerful because the day these were recorded. Not really much a group being a moving unit of carefully connected companies and musicians, the most important continuous of the group was …

Focused around leader Steve Washington and singers Starleana Young and Curtis Jones, Aurra was an outgrowth from the Ohio-based funk group Slave. They documented a small number of albums throughout their past due-’70s and early-’80s lifetime, with the majority of that result released on Salsoul. The group’s account shifted continuously, …

A FRESH York Town octet, among three funk and/or disco rings in which maker/keyboardist Randy Muller was involved. The initial lineup presented Denise, Delores, and Bonny Dunning as vocalists, with guitarists Solomon Roberts and Anibal Anthony Sierra, keyboardist Larry Greenberg, bassist Gerald Lebon, and drummer Tommy McConnell. Muller structured the …

Tommy McConnell, drummer of ’80s dance/funk music group Skyy, co-wrote with keyboard participant Joe Williams (not the jazz legend) the band’s number 1 R&B strike “Begin of a Love” issued in New York-based pioneering dance label Salsoul Information. The Queens, NY, indigenous became smitten with music within the ’60s after …

Like Deniece Williams, among her inspirations, R&B singer and songwriter Moniquea is from Gary, Indiana, though she grew up in Pasadena, California. Encircled by music, she also created like a performer during her youngsters and, at age 15, performed in the Rose Dish. She released a self-titled recording in 2011 …