Today’s Soul Birthdays – October 11
Billy Higgins - American jazz drummer. He played mainly free jazz and hard bop. Lester Bowie - American jazz trumpet player and composer. He was a member of the Association […]
Billy Higgins - American jazz drummer. He played mainly free jazz and hard bop. Lester Bowie - American jazz trumpet player and composer. He was a member of the Association […]
Nappy Brown - American R&B singer. His hits include the 1955 Billboard chart No. 2 "Don't Be Angry", "Little By Little", and "Night Time Is the Right Time". Sam Moore […]
Shirley Caesar - American gospel singer, songwriter and recording artist whose career has spanned seven decades. Dorothy Moore - American blues, gospel, and R&B singer best known for her 1976 […]
Karyn White - American singer who was popular during the late 1980s and early 1990s. She is known for several hit singles including "Superwoman", "Love Saw It", "Secret Rendezvous", "The […]
Tito Jackson - American singer-songwriter and guitarist. Jackson was an original member of The Jackson 5, who rose to fame in the late 1960s and 1970s with the Motown label, […]
Laura Nyro - American songwriter, singer, and pianist. She achieved critical acclaim with her own recordings, particularly the albums Eli and the Thirteenth Confession and New York Tendaberry, and had […]
Wilbert Hart - American soul singer, songwriter, and producer, best known as a founding member of the musical group The Delfonics. George McCrae - American soul and disco singer, most […]
Eddie Harris - American jazz musician, best known for playing tenor saxophone and for introducing the electrically amplified saxophone. He was also fluent on the electric piano and organ. His […]
Steve Cropper - American guitarist, songwriter and record producer. He is the guitarist of the Stax Records house band, Booker T. & the M.G.'s, which backed artists such as Otis […]
Bobby Fuller - American rock singer, songwriter, and guitarist best known for "Let Her Dance" and his cover of the Crickets' "I Fought the Law", recorded with his group The […]
Speech Hoopla - American rapper. Don Davis - American composer, conductor, orchestrator and trombonist known for his film and television scores. He has also composed opera, concert and chamber music. […]
Bootsy Collins - American musician, singer and songwriter. Rising to prominence with James Brown in the early 1970s, and later with Parliament-Funkadelic, Collins's driving basslines and humorous vocals established him […]