Shorty Long - American soul singer, songwriter, musician, and record producer for Motown's Soul Records imprint. He was inducted into the Alabama Jazz Hall of Fame in 1980.
Maxwell - American singer-songwriter, record producer, and multi-instrumentalist. Along with fellow musicians D'Angelo and Erykah Badu, Maxwell has been credited as an originator of the "neo soul" movement that rose […]
Patti Labelle - American singer and actress. She began her career in the early 1960s as lead singer and frontwoman of the vocal group Patti LaBelle and the Bluebelles. Heavy […]
Donnie Elbert - American soul singer and songwriter, who had a prolific career from the mid-1950s to the late 1970s. Hal David - American lyricist. He grew up in New […]
Miles Davis - American trumpeter, bandleader, and composer. He is among the most influential and acclaimed figures in the history of jazz and 20th-century music. Little Willie John - American […]
Dee Dee Bridgewater - American jazz singer. She is a three-time Grammy Award-winning singer-songwriter, as well as a Tony Award-winning stage actress. For 23 years, she was the host of […]
D'Marie Warren - Member the popular disco trio 'Alton, McClain & Destiny'. Roland Bautista - American singer, songwriter and guitarist. Bautista was best known for his work with Earth, Wind […]
Charles Drain - American soul singer. Marlo Henderson - American guitarist and saxophonist, who played in mainly blues and R&B genres. Paulinho Da Costa - Brazilian percussionist born in Rio […]
Nelson Riddle - American arranger, composer, bandleader and orchestrator whose career stretched from the late 1940s to the mid-1980s.
Lesley Gore - American singer, songwriter, actress, and activist. At the age of 16, she recorded the pop hit "It's My Party", a US number one in 1963. She followed […]
