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Younger brother of Jerry Butler, Billy Butler wasn’t almost as well referred to as his sibling, but recorded some okay Chicago soul in the ’60s. Documenting for OKeh under maker Carl Davis, Butler’s middle-’60s singles had been quite just like labelmates Main Lance’s and (much less certainly) Curtis Mayfield’s as …

b. 10 Dec 1944, Bamboo, St. Ann, Jamaica, Western Indies. Williams grew up within an agricultural environment before departing Jamaica at age nine to stay along with his parents in Britain. By this time around, he had currently developed an enthusiastic fascination with music and his performing and dancing abilities …

Lerato “Lira” Molapo was created in Daveyton, South Africa, on March 14, 1979. After earning a competition for youthful performers and songwriters, Lira began executing live at age 16, performing both cover variations and self-penned tracks. In 2000 she was uncovered by musician and manufacturer Arthur Mafokate, who got her …

Aṣa tripped to fly with the launch of her initial single, “Open fire within the Hill”, in 2007. The solitary (that includes a remarkably lilting melody because of its associated lyrics caution of ecological catastrophe) had currently received wide airplay on channels in European countries when her self-titled debut recording …

Pitingo is a charismatic vocalist from Spain whose music design is a fusion from the high-wrought copla design of flamenco vocals using the even music tropes of spirit/R&B. His second record, Soulería (2008), a Spanish-language assortment of well-known cover tracks, propelled him to TOP achievement in his homeland. Located in …

A loose-knit band of music artists drawn from Sharon Jones & the Dap-Kings (Dave Man, Homer Steinweiss, Fernando Velez, Bosco Mann), Un Michels Affair (Leon Michels, Toby Pazner), Antibalas (Nick Movshon, Aaron Johnson) as well as the Budos Music group (Mike Deller, Daniel Fodder), the Menahan Road Music group was …

This UK-based hip-hop soul act was formed by Ricky Fabulous (guitar) and DJ Modest (decks), who was simply playing live sets for the London club for several years before an opportunity ending up in vocalist Kathrin deBoer prompted these to launch a far more song-based project in the beginning of …

Spirit singer Kim Tolliver was created in Lebanon, TN, but her formative years occurred in Cleveland, OH’s Hough region. She constructed a status wowing local pub customers with dramatic interpretations of blues and spirit tracks, and gigged for a long time before documenting her first solitary. The sluggish torching “In …

Ladi6 is a modern R&B singer and rapper who made her single recording debut in 2008 after many years of group and collaborative activity. Created Karoline Tamati and located in Auckland, New Zealand, she started her profession as an associate from the all-girl hip-hop group Sheelahroc. Dynamic through the early …

b. 1959, Chicago, USA. When aged just 14 Gage became a member of the Soulettes with whom she remained until she was 21. During this time period they transformed their name to First Appreciate and then Appreciate, subsequently documenting an record for Chycago International Music in 1980. Nevertheless, at that …