Willie Max

The Detroit-based R&B trio Willie Potential comprised sisters Rose, Sky and Lyric Smith. Starting their careers through the past due 1980s as teenagers performing beneath the name the Smith Reflections, the group opened up for serves including Tony! Toni! Build!, whose Raphael Saddiq became the sisters’ coach; rechristening themselves Willie Potential after the particular first names of the parents, issuing their debut LP REAL (the very first discharge on Saddiq’s Pookie Information label) in 1998.