Tommy Dorsey - American jazz trombonist, composer, conductor and bandleader of the big band era. David Ebo - American singer from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. In 1976, Harold Melvin was looking for a lead singer for his group, Harold Melvin & the Blue Notes after Teddy Pendergrass left, eventually hiring Ebo to replace Teddy.
Bobby Rush - American blues musician, composer and singer. His style incorporates elements of blues, rap and funk. Hubert Laws - American flutist and saxophonist with a career spanning over 40 years in jazz, classical, and other music genres. Sir Mack Rice - American songwriter and singer. His best-known composition and biggest hit as a […]
Laverne Baker - American R&B singer who had several hit records on the pop chart in the 1950s and early 1960s. Her most successful records were "Tweedle Dee", "Jim Dandy", and "I Cried a Tear" Ernestine Anderson - American jazz and blues singer. In a career spanning more than six decades, she recorded over 30 […]
Booker T. Jones - American multi-instrumentalist, songwriter, record producer and arranger, best known as the frontman of the band Booker T. & the M.G.'s. Errol Brown - ritish-Jamaican singer and songwriter, best known as the frontman of the soul and funk band Hot Chocolate. Bob Crewe - American songwriter, dancer, singer, manager, and record producer. He […]
Baby Washington - American soul music vocalist, who had 16 rhythm and blues chart entries in 15 years, most of them during the 1960s. Idris Muhammed - American jazz drummer who recorded with Ahmad Jamal, Lou Donaldson, Pharoah Sanders, and Tete Montoliu. Timmy Thomas - American R&B singer, keyboardist, songwriter and record producer, best known […]
Alexander O'Neal - American R&B singer, songwriter and arranger from Natchez, Mississippi. In a music career spanning more than 40 years, O'Neal is an accomplished R&B and soul singer. Scherrie Payne - American singer. Payne is best known as the last lead singer of the R&B/Soul vocal group The Supremes from 1973 until 1977. Because […]
Diana Krall - Canadian jazz pianist and singer, known for her contralto vocals. She has sold more than 6 million albums in the US and over 15 million albums worldwide. "Blue" Lovett - Bass singer & songwriter who came to prominence as a member of the popular American R&B vocal group, The Manhattans. The Manhattans […]
Ronald Devoe - American singer, best known as one of the members of the R&B/pop group New Edition, and the R&B/hip hop group Bell Biv DeVoe.
Hank Ballard - Rhythm and blues singer and songwriter, the lead vocalist of The Midnighters and one of the first rock and roll artists to emerge in the early 1950s. Jenny Burton - American R&B singer who had several hits on the US Billboard dance chart.
Tony Rich - American Grammy-award-winning Contemporary singer-songwriter best known for his hit single "Nobody Knows". Warren Pete Moore - American singer-songwriter and record producer, notable as the bass singer for Motown group The Miracles from 1955 onwards, and was one of the group's original members.
J. Blackfoot - American soul singer. A member of The Soul Children in the late 1960s and 1970s, he subsequently had a moderately successful solo career. His biggest hit was "Taxi", which reached the charts in both the US and UK in 1984.
Betty Everett - American soul singer and pianist, best known for her biggest hit single, the million-selling "Shoop Shoop Song", and her duet "Let It Be Me" with Jerry Butler. Gloria Lynne - American jazz vocalist with a recording career spanning from 1958 to 2007.
