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Harold Melvin was among the traveling forces in back of Philadelphia spirit, leading his group the Blue Records to the very best of the graphs throughout their stint in Kenny Gamble and Leon Huff’s Philadelphia International label. Despite Melvin’s billing out entrance, the Blue Records’ center point was business lead …

To place it bluntly, Har Mar Superstar (aka Sean Tillmann) is really a balding, out-of-shape light man using a pencil-thin moustache who croons sex-laden R&B music while break dance. His concert events, sung towards the support of a little boom box, generally culminate in Har Mar stripping right down to …

The music world’s prime disco big band through the past due ’70s, the Salsoul Orchestra recorded many of the tightest, chunkiest disco themes from the 1970s, both alone productions so when the backing group for a number of prime vocalists. Organized by Vincent Montana, Jr. in 1974, the music group …

With over 25 platinum and platinum album awards, Vincent Montana, Jr. is actually a musical achievement story. Through the ’70s and ’80s, the multi-talented composer/arranger/conductor/percussionist/bandleader and renowned vibraharpist was an associate of MFSB, the studio room home music group for Gamble & Huff’s Philadelphia International Information (PIR), and later on …

Rebbie Jackson, like her siblings Janet, LaToya, and Randy, was from the general public vision when her brothers stormed the music globe because the Jackson 5. Though she sang and was trained clarinet and piano by her mom, it wasn’t until 1976, following the Jackson 5 experienced remaining Motown and …

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 …

Luther Vandross was one of the most effective R&B performers from the 1980s and ’90s. Not merely did he rating some multi-million-selling albums including chart-topping strike singles and carry out sold-out trips of the U.S. and all over the world, but he also got charge of his music artistically, composing …

R&B vocalist, composer, and manufacturer John Whitehead remains to be most widely known for the smash “Ain’t Zero Stoppin’ Us Today,” the disco-era common he recorded with longtime collaborator Gene McFadden. Blessed July 2, 1948, Whitehead and McFadden had been raised within the same impoverished Philadelphia community. Still in senior …

Gregory Abbott’s origins stem from Venezuela, his mother’s homeland, as well as the isle of Antigua, his father’s homeland; producing him a dual resident of the tiny tropical isle as well as the U.S., where he was created. His profession as an award-winning vocalist, composer, maker, and musician started in …

Soul singer/songwriter Eddie Floyd scored among the defining strikes from the Memphis spirit sound with “Knock about Wood,” lots 1 R&B smash that typified the Stax home style in its grittiest. Floyd was created in Montgomery, AL, in 1935, but was raised in Detroit, where his uncle Robert Western owned …