Valerie Simpson - American husband-and-wife songwriting-production team and recording duo of Nickolas Ashford and Valerie Simpson. Ashford was born in Fairfield, South Carolina, and Simpson in the Bronx, New York […]
Lester Young - American jazz tenor saxophonist and occasional clarinetist. Coming to prominence while a member of Count Basie's orchestra, Young was one of the most influential players on his […]
Robert Manuel Clivillés - American record producer, songwriter, arranger, and music video director most noted for his work with C+C Music Factory, a group he founded with musical partner David […]
Bobby Parker - American blues-rock guitarist, singer, and songwriter. Wilton Felder - American saxophone and bass player, and is best known as a founding member of the Jazz Crusaders, later […]
Archie Bell - American singer from R&B vocal group, Archie Bell & Drells. Don Blackman - American jazz-funk pianist, singer, and songwriter. He performed with Parliament-Funkadelic, Earth, Wind and Fire, […]
Sam Gooden - American soul singer. He is best known for being an original member of the successful group The Impressions from its beginnings as The Roosters in the 1950s. […]
Memphis Slim - American blues pianist, singer, and composer. He led a series of bands that, reflecting the popular appeal of jump blues, included saxophones, bass, drums, and piano. A […]
Beyonce - American singer, songwriter, and actress. Born and raised in Houston, Texas, Beyoncé performed in various singing and dancing competitions as a child. She rose to fame in the […]
CeCe Peniston - American singer and former beauty queen. In the early 1990s, she scored five number one hits on the U.S. Billboard Hot Dance Music/Club Play. Her signature song […]
Gloria Gaynor - American singer, best known for the disco era hits "I Will Survive", "Let Me Know", "I Am What I Am", and her version of "Never Can Say […]
David Lewis - Lead singer/guitarist for the 1980s, and 1990s R&B, POP supergroup Atlantic Starr. Earl Nelson - American soul singer and songwriter. He started his career in the doo-wop group […]
Billy Preston - American musician, whose work encompassed R&B, rock, soul, funk, and gospel. Inez Foxx - American R&B singer/songwriter. Dee Dee Sharp Gamble - American R&B singer, who began […]
