Garnet Mimms - American singer, influential in soul music and rhythm and blues. Tina Turner - American-born Swiss singer, songwriter, dancer, and actress. Known as "the Queen of Rock 'n' Roll", she rose to prominence as part of the Ike & Tina Turner Revue before launching a successful career as a solo performer. Skip Scarborough […]
Randy Brecker - American trumpeter, flugelhornist, and composer. His versatility has made him a popular studio musician who has recorded with acts in jazz, rock, and R&B. Jimi Hendrix - American musician, singer, and songwriter. Although his mainstream career spanned only four years, he is widely regarded as one of the most influential electric guitarists […]
J.J. Barnes - American R&B singer and songwriter. He recorded several singles, starting in 1960. Des'ree - English pop recording artist who rose to popularity during the 1990s. She is best known for her hits "Feel So High", "You Gotta Be", "Life", and "Kissing You". June Pointer - American singer, best known as the youngest […]
Ronnie Laws - American jazz, jazz fusion, smooth jazz saxophonist. He is the younger brother of jazz flutist Hubert Laws, jazz vocalist Eloise Laws and the older brother of Debra Laws.
Cassandra Wilson - American jazz singer, songwriter, and producer from Jackson, Mississippi. She has been described by critic Gary Giddins as "a singer blessed with an unmistakable timbre and attack expanded the playing field" by incorporating blues, country, and folk music into her work.
Little Richard - American musician, singer, and songwriter. He was an influential figure in popular music and culture for seven decades. Frank Wilson - American songwriter, singer and record producer for Motown Records.
Steve Alaimo - American singer who was a teen idol in the early 1960s. Willie Hutch - American singer, songwriter as well as a record producer and recording artist for the Motown record label during the 1970s and 1980s. Frankie Beverley - American singer, musician, songwriter, and producer, known primarily for his recordings with the […]
Andre Lewis - American musician known for his synthesizer recordings at Motown. As Andre Lewis he also contributed to Labelle's Moon Shadow and Whitney Houston's Just Whitney. Barbara Weathers - American R&B/soul singer, and former lead singer of R&B vocal group, Atlantic Starr. Brenda Jones - American R&B singer from vocal group The Jones Girls.
Dan Hartman - American musician, singer, songwriter, and record producer. Jerry Butler - American soul singer-songwriter, producer, musician, and retired politician. He is also noted as being the original lead singer of the R&B vocal group the Impressions, as well as a 1991 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee. Jimmy Smith - American jazz […]
Donald Byrd - American jazz and rhythm & blues trumpeter and vocalist. A sideman for many other jazz musicians of his generation, Byrd was known as one of the rare bebop jazz musicians who successfully explored funk and soul while remaining a jazz artist.
Walter "Clyde" Orange - Co-lead singer & songwriter in the American funk, soul & r&b band, The Commodores. Commodores is an American funk/soul band, which was at its peak in the late 1970s through the mid 1980s. Jessica Cleaves - American singer and songwriter. Paul Hardcastle - British composer, musician, producer, songwriter, radio presenter and […]
Jermaine Jackson - American singer, songwriter, bass guitarist and member of the Jackson family. Benny Spellman - American R&B singer, best known for the 1962 single "Lipstick Traces" and its B-side "Fortune Teller", both written by Allen Toussaint. McCoy Tyner - American jazz pianist known for his work with the John Coltrane Quartet and a […]
