Percy Mayfield - American rhythm-and-blues singer with a smooth vocal style. He was also a songwriter, known for the songs "Please Send Me Someone to Love" and "Hit the Road Jack", a song popularized by Ray Charles. Pat Metheney - American jazz guitarist and composer. He is the leader of the Pat Metheny Group and […]
Jimmy McCracklin - American pianist, vocalist, and songwriter. His style contained West Coast blues, Jump blues, and R&B. Over a career that spanned seven decades, he said he had written almost a thousand songs and had recorded hundreds of them.
James JT Taylor - American singer and actor best known as the former lead singer of the R&B/funk band Kool & the Gang. Before his rise to fame, Taylor was a teacher and amateur night club singer, having first joined a band at the age of 13.
Maysa Leak - American jazz singer better known by her mononym Maysa. She is well known by fans of smooth jazz both for her solo work and for her work with the British band Incognito.
Maxine Brown - American soul and R&B singer. Sarah Dash - American singer and actress. She first appeared on the music scene as a member of Patti LaBelle & The Bluebelles. Edwin Hawkins - American gospel musician, pianist, choir master, composer, and arranger. Ernie Isley - American musician, best known as a member of the […]
Johnny Nash - American singer-songwriter, best known in the United States for his 1972 hit "I Can See Clearly Now". Primarily a reggae and pop singer, he was one of the first non-Jamaican artists to record reggae music in Kingston.
David Lasley - American recording artist, singer and songwriter best known for his contributions as a background singer for such artists as Bonnie Raitt, James Taylor, Luther Vandross, Aretha Franklin, Dionne Warwick, Dusty Springfield and Boz Scaggs and for songs he has written for artists including Bonnie Raitt, Whitney Houston, Anita Baker, Maxine Nightingale, Rita Coolidge, Crystal Gayle, and Luther Vandross, and his solo albums and albums with his '70's […]
Pebbles - American singer-songwriter, businesswoman, record producer and music executive. Reid is perhaps best known for her hit songs during the late 1980s and early 1990s such as "Girlfriend", "Mercedes Boy" and "Giving You the Benefit".
Jeffrey Daniels - American dancer, singer-songwriter and choreographer, most notable for being a founding member of the R&B vocal group Shalamar. In Nigeria he is best known as an Idol series judge Dee Harvey - American R&B singer. He was at one time signed to Motown Label and recorded his first album, Just as I […]
Walter Williams - Founding member of R&B group The O'Jays. Wayne Shorter - American jazz saxophonist and composer. Shorter came to wide prominence in the late 1950s as a member of, and eventually primary composer for, Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers.
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 City. Branford Marsalis - American saxophonist, composer, and bandleader. While primarily known for his work in jazz as the leader of the Branford Marsalis Quartet, […]
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 instrument. Yolanda Adams - American gospel singer, record producer, actress, and host of her own nationally syndicated morning gospel show. She has sold nearly 10 […]
