Byron Woods - American singer, song writer and musician.  

David Grant - English singer, comedian and vocal coach. Joe Tex - American singer and musician who gained success in the 1960s and 1970s with his brand of Southern soul, which mixed the styles of funk, country, gospel, and rhythm and blues. Benny Carter - American jazz saxophonist, clarinetist, trumpeter, composer, arranger, and bandleader. With […]

Barbara Mason - American soul singer with several R&B and pop hits in the 1960s and 1970s, best known for her self-written 1965 hit song "Yes, I'm Ready". Mighty Hannibal - American R&B, soul, and funk singer, songwriter, and record producer. Known for his showmanship, and outlandish costumes often incorporating a pink turban, several of […]

Patti Austin - American R&B, pop, and jazz singer and songwriter. Ronnie Spector - American singer who formed the girl group the Ronettes in 1957 with her elder sister Estelle Bennett and their cousin Nedra Talley. Bennett fronted the group while record producer Phil Spector produced the majority of their output. Bobby Hatfield - American […]

Kenny Gamble - American singer, songwriter and producer.

Percy Mayfield - American rhythm-and-blues singer with a smooth vocal style. He was also a songwriter, known for the songs "Please Send Me Someone to Love" and "Hit the Road Jack", a song popularized by Ray Charles. Pat Metheney - American jazz guitarist and composer. He is the leader of the Pat Metheny Group and […]

Jimmy McCracklin -  American pianist, vocalist, and songwriter. His style contained West Coast blues, Jump blues, and R&B. Over a career that spanned seven decades, he said he had written almost a thousand songs and had recorded hundreds of them.

James JT Taylor -  American singer and actor best known as the former lead singer of the R&B/funk band Kool & the Gang. Before his rise to fame, Taylor was a teacher and amateur night club singer, having first joined a band at the age of 13.

Maysa Leak - American jazz singer better known by her mononym Maysa. She is well known by fans of smooth jazz both for her solo work and for her work with the British band Incognito.

Maxine Brown - American soul and R&B singer. Sarah Dash - American singer and actress. She first appeared on the music scene as a member of Patti LaBelle & The Bluebelles. Edwin Hawkins - American gospel musician, pianist, choir master, composer, and arranger. Ernie Isley -  American musician, best known as a member of the […]

Johnny Nash - American singer-songwriter, best known in the United States for his 1972 hit "I Can See Clearly Now". Primarily a reggae and pop singer, he was one of the first non-Jamaican artists to record reggae music in Kingston.

David Lasley - American recording artist, singer and songwriter best known for his contributions as a background singer for such artists as Bonnie Raitt, James Taylor, Luther Vandross, Aretha Franklin, Dionne Warwick, Dusty Springfield and Boz Scaggs and for songs he has written for artists including Bonnie Raitt, Whitney Houston, Anita Baker, Maxine Nightingale, Rita Coolidge, Crystal Gayle, and Luther Vandross, and his solo albums and albums with his '70's […]