Johnny Otis - American singer, musician, composer, arranger, bandleader, talent scout, disc jockey, record producer, television show host, artist, author, journalist, minister, and impresario. He was a seminal influence on American R&B and rock and roll. Lonnie Liston Smith - American jazz, soul, and funk musician who played with such jazz artists as Pharoah Sanders […]
Patti Drew - American pop singer who achieved brief success in the late 1960s. Drew was raised in Nashville, Tennessee and Evanston, Illinois, where she sang in church with her sisters, Lorraine and Erma. Yvonne Elliman - American singer, songwriter, and actress who performed for four years in the first cast of the stage musical […]
Chris Jasper - American singer, composer, and producer. Jasper is a former member of the Isley Brothers and Isley-Jasper-Isley and is responsible for writing and producing the majority of the Isley Brothers music and Isley-Jasper-Isley music. Paul Jackson Jr. - American fusion/urban jazz composer, arranger, producer and guitarist. Bo Diddley - American singer, guitarist, songwriter […]
Donna Summer - American singer, songwriter, and actress. She gained prominence during the disco era of the 1970s and became known as the "Queen of Disco", while her music gained a global following.
Willie Mitchell - American trumpeter, bandleader, soul, R&B, rock and roll, pop and funk record producer and arranger who ran Royal Studios in Memphis, Tennessee. Sir George Martin - English record producer, arranger, composer, conductor, audio engineer, and musician. He was referred to as the "Fifth Beatle" in reference to his extensive involvement in each […]
Arthur Conley - American soul singer, best known for the 1967 hit "Sweet Soul Music". Vanity - Canadian singer, songwriter, model, and actress. Known for her image as a sex symbol in the 1980s, she became an evangelist and renounced her career as Vanity in the 1990s.
Johnny Adams - American blues, jazz and gospel singer, known as "The Tan Canary" for the multi-octave range of his singing voice, his swooping vocal mannerisms and falsetto. His biggest hits were his versions of "Release Me" and "Reconsider Me" in the late 1960s. Wilbert Harrison - American rhythm and blues singer, pianist, guitarist and […]
Doris Troy - American R&B singer and songwriter, known to her many fans as "Mama Soul". Her biggest hit was "Just One Look", a top 10 hit in 1963. She was also one of the four female back up singers on The Dark Side of the Moon by Pink Floyd. Shirley Brown - American R&B […]
Kenny Loggins - American musician, singer and songwriter. His early songs were recorded with the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band in 1970, which led to seven albums recorded as Loggins and Messina from 1972 to 1977.
Daryl I. Cameron - American musician and singer. Fayette Pinkney - American singer and one of the original members of musical group The Three Degrees. Donald Fagen - American musician best known as the co-founder, lead singer, co-songwriter, and keyboardist of the band Steely Dan, formed in the early 1970s with musical partner Walter Becker. […]
Mary J. Blige - American singer, songwriter and actress. Her career began in 1991 when she was signed to Uptown Records. She went on to release 13 studio albums, eight of which have achieved multi-platinum certifications. Lee Ritenour - American jazz guitarist who has been active since the late 1960s. Rahsaan Patterson - American singer […]
George Duke - American keyboardist, composer, singer-songwriter and record producer. He worked with numerous artists as arranger, music director, writer and co-writer, record producer and as a professor of music. Phil Perry - American R&B singer, songwriter, musician and a former member of the soul group, The Montclairs, from 1971 to 1975. He was also […]
