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, Louis Hayes, and Nicolas Dietz. Terry Callier -  American soul, folk and jazz guitarist and singer-songwriter. General Johnson - Chairmen of the Board and an […]

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. Bobby Purify - American soul singer. Horace Silver - American jazz pianist, composer, and arranger, particularly in the hard bop style that he helped pioneer […]

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 song he first cut in 1947, "Every Day I Have the Blues", has become a blues standard, recorded by many other artists.

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 late 1990s as the lead singer of Destiny's Child, one of the best-selling girl groups of all time.

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 "Finally" reached the number 5 spot on the Hot 100 and number 2 in UK Top 75.

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 Goodbye". Latimore - American blues and R&B singer, songwriter and pianist. Little Milton - American blues singer and guitarist, best known for his number-one R&B […]

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 the Hollywood Flames in the 1950s before founding the R&B duo Bob & Earl with Bobby Byrd.

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 her career recording as a backing vocalist in 1961. Elvin Ray Jones - American jazz drummer of the post-bop era. Otis Redding - American singer […]

Roy Ayers -  American funk, soul, and jazz composer, vibraphone player, and music producer. Jose Feliciano - Puerto Rican musician, singer and composer, best known for many international hits, including his rendition of the Doors' "Light My Fire" and the best-selling Christmas single, "Feliz Navidad."

Edward "Damian" Broadus - American musician and member of R&B group, Damian Dame. Lewie Steinberg - American musician best known as the original bass guitar player for the soul music group Booker T. & the M.G.'s. Gene Page - American conductor, composer, arranger and record producer, most active from the mid-1960s through the mid-1980s. Joni […]

Oliver Lake - American jazz saxophonist, flutist, composer, poet, and visual artist. He is known mainly for alto saxophone, but he also performs on soprano and flute. Amy Winehouse -  English singer and songwriter. She was known for her deep, expressive contralto vocals and her eclectic mix of musical genres, including soul, rhythm and blues […]

George Howard - American smooth jazz saxophonist. Slyvia Moy - American songwriter and record producer, formerly associated with the Motown Records group. The first woman at the Detroit-based music label to write and produce for Motown acts, she is probably best known for her songs written with and for Stevie Wonder.