David Ebo - American singer from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. In 1976, Harold Melvin was looking for a lead singer for his group, Harold Melvin & the Blue Notes after Teddy Pendergrass left, eventually hiring Ebo to replace Teddy.

Bobby Rush - American blues musician, composer, and singer. His style incorporates elements of blues, rap, and funk. Rush has won twelve Blues Music Awards and in 2017, at the age of 83, he won his first Grammy Award for the album Porcupine Meat. Hubbert Laws - American flutist and saxophonist with a career spanning […]

LeVern Baker - American R&B singer who had several hit records on the pop chart in the 1950s and early 1960s. Her most successful records were "Tweedle Dee", "Jim Dandy", and "I Cried a Tear". Ernestine Anderson - American jazz and blues singer. In a career spanning more than six decades, she recorded over 30 […]

Tevin Campbell - American singer, songwriter and actor. He performed gospel in his local church from an early age. Following an audition for jazz musician Bobbi Humphrey in 1988, Campbell was signed to Warner Bros. Records. Booker T. Jones - American multi-instrumentalist, songwriter, record producer and arranger, best known as the frontman of the band […]

Clyde McPhatter - American rhythm and blues, soul, and rock and roll singer. He was one of the most widely imitated R&B singers of the 1950s and early 1960s and was a key figure in the shaping of doo-wop and R&B. Camelle Hinds - Singer, song writer and bassist. Jimmy Ellis - American singer and […]

Blue Lovett - Bass singer and songwriter. Richard "Dick" Griffey - American record producer and music promoter who founded SOLAR Records, a RAS acronym for "Sound of Los Angeles Records". The label played a major role in developing a funk-oriented blend of disco, R&B and soul music during the 1970s and 1980s. Lillian Lopez - […]

Ronald Devoe - American singer, rapper, and actor known as one of the members of the R&B/pop group New Edition, and the R&B/hip hop group Bell Biv DeVoe. He was born in Roxbury, Massachusetts. Barney Kessell - American jazz guitarist born in Muskogee, Oklahoma. Known in particular for his knowledge of chords and inversions and […]

Hank Ballard - American R&B singer and songwriter, the lead vocalist of The Midnighters and one of the first rock and roll artists to emerge in the early 1950s. Jenny Burton - American R&B singer who had several hits on the US Billboard dance chart.

Tony Rich - American Grammy-award-winning Contemporary singer-songwriter best known for his hit single "Nobody Knows". Warren Pete Moore - American singer-songwriter and record producer, notable as the bass singer for Motown group The Miracles from 1955 onwards, and was one of the group's original members.

Wendy Moten -  American singer, best known for the single "Come In Out of the Rain", which was a No. 8 hit in the UK in February 1994. Hoagy Carmichaeal - American songwriter, musician, actor, singer, and attorney. American composer and author Alec Wilder described Carmichael as the "most talented, inventive, sophisticated and jazz-oriented of […]

Betty Everett - American soul singer and pianist, best known for her biggest hit single, the million-selling "Shoop Shoop Song", and her duet "Let It Be Me" with Jerry Butler. Gloria Lynne -  American jazz vocalist with a recording career spanning from 1958 to 2007.