Bobby Womack - American singer, songwriter, musician, and record producer. Miriam Makeba - South African singer, songwriter, actress, United Nations goodwill ambassador, and civil rights activist. Associated with musical genres including Afropop, jazz, and world music, she was an advocate against apartheid and white-minority government in South Africa.
Teena Marie - American singer-songwriter, musician, composer, arranger, and producer.
Mary Wilson - American singer. She gained worldwide recognition as a founding member of The Supremes, the most successful Motown act of the 1960s and the best-charting female group in U.S. chart history, as well as one of the best-selling girl groups of all-time. Sylvia Robinson - American singer, record producer, and record label executive. […]
Kae Williams Jr. - Musical artist. Hamilton Bohannon - American percussionist, band leader, songwriter, arranger, and record producer, who was one of the leading figures in 1970s disco music. Leon Sylvers III - American singer, songwriter, disc-jockey, record producer and multi-instrumentalist. He was a member of the family group The Sylvers and became one of […]
Gabor Szabo - Hungarian American guitarist whose style incorporated jazz, pop, rock, and Hungarian music.
Jeffery Osborne - American Grammy–nominated singer–songwriter, musician and lyricist. Osborne is the former drummer and lead singer of the American R&B/Soul group L.T.D.; with whom he began his musical career in 1970. Lloyd Price - American R&B vocalist, known as "Mr. Personality", after his 1959 million-selling hit, "Personality". His first recording, "Lawdy Miss Clawdy", was […]
Bunny DeBarge - American soul singer–songwriter, best known as the lone female sibling of the Motown family group DeBarge.
Cheryl Lynn - American singer. She is best known for her songs during the late 1970s through the mid-1980s, including the 1978 R&B/disco song "Got to Be Real". Bobby McFerrin - American folk-jazz vocalist. Singer Bobby McFerrin arrives at the 7th annual Roots Jam Session at the Music Box Theatre on February 12, 2011 in […]
Ruby Andrews - American soul singer. Her best known songs include "Casonova", "You Made A Believer", and "Everybody Saw You". Al Jarreau - American singer and musician. His 1981 album Breakin' Away spent two years on the Billboard 200 and is considered one of the finest examples of the Los Angeles pop and R&B sound. […]
Jean Carne - American jazz and pop singer. In mid career, she added a final e to her name. Carn is a vocalist credited with a five octave vocal range. She began her recording career with her then-husband, pianist Doug Carn, for Black Jazz Records. Ralph McDonald - Trinbagonian-American percussionist, songwriter, musical arranger, record producer, […]
Tommy Flanagan - American jazz pianist and composer. He grew up in Detroit, initially influenced by such pianists as Art Tatum, Teddy Wilson, and Nat King Cole, and then by the newer bebop musicians.
