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In the first ’70s, the dancers on Don Cornelius’ hit television plan Soul Teach were referred to as the Soul Teach Gang. However they became the Spirit Teach Dancers in 1975, when Cornelius and Dick Griffey co-founded Spirit Teach Information — which progressed into Solar Information, house to Lakeside, Shalamar, …

Among the fantastic pure vocalists from the urban contemporary era, Howard Hewett has seldom found material worth his tremendous skills. He was raised in Akron, Ohio and relocated to LA. Hewett danced on Spirit Teach, and became one-third of Shalamar with Jeffrey Daniel and Jody Watley in 1979. That they …