Carmen Lundy - American jazz singer. She has been performing for three decades, with a focus on original material. She has been positively compared with Aretha Franklin, Ella Fitzgerald and Sarah Vaughan. Carmen Lundy is the sister of bassist Curtis Lundy. Phil Terry - American singer from R&B group, The Intruders. Ronald Bell - American […]

Earl Caroll -  Lead vocalist of the doo-wop group The Cadillacs. Maxine Nightingale - British R&B and soul music singer. She is best known for her hits in the 1970s, with the million seller "Right Back Where We Started From", "Love Hit Me", and "Lead Me On".  

Clifford Curry - American beach music, soul music, and R&B singer.  

Jeff Lorber - American keyboardist, composer, and record producer. After six previous nominations, Lorber won his first Grammy Award on January 28, 2018 for Best Contemporary Instrumental Album for Prototype by his band The Jeff Lorber Fusion.

Ike Turner - American musician, bandleader, songwriter, arranger, talent scout, and record producer. An early pioneer of 1950s rock and roll, he is best known for his work in the 1960s and 1970s with his then-wife Tina Turner as the leader of the Ike & Tina Turner Revue. Loleatta Holloway - American singer, mainly known […]

Gerald Alston - American soul/R&B singer, and the lead singer of the Grammy Award winning group The Manhattans between late 1970 and 1988, recording 25 top 40 R&B and 12 Hot 100 Pop Singles. Cubie Burke - American singer from R&B group, The Stairsteps. Minnie Riperton - American singer-songwriter best known for her 1975 single […]

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. Rush has won twelve Blues Music Awards and in 2017, at the age of 83, he won his first Grammy Award for the album Porcupine Meat. Hubbert Laws - American flutist and saxophonist with a career spanning […]

LeVern 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 […]

Tevin Campbell - American singer, songwriter and actor. He performed gospel in his local church from an early age. Following an audition for jazz musician Bobbi Humphrey in 1988, Campbell was signed to Warner Bros. Records. Booker T. Jones - American multi-instrumentalist, songwriter, record producer and arranger, best known as the frontman of the band […]

Clyde McPhatter - American rhythm and blues, soul, and rock and roll singer. He was one of the most widely imitated R&B singers of the 1950s and early 1960s and was a key figure in the shaping of doo-wop and R&B. Camelle Hinds - Singer, song writer and bassist. Jimmy Ellis - American singer and […]

Blue Lovett - Bass singer and songwriter. Richard "Dick" Griffey - American record producer and music promoter who founded SOLAR Records, a RAS acronym for "Sound of Los Angeles Records". The label played a major role in developing a funk-oriented blend of disco, R&B and soul music during the 1970s and 1980s. Lillian Lopez - […]

Ronald Devoe - American singer, rapper, and actor known as one of the members of the R&B/pop group New Edition, and the R&B/hip hop group Bell Biv DeVoe. He was born in Roxbury, Massachusetts. Barney Kessell - American jazz guitarist born in Muskogee, Oklahoma. Known in particular for his knowledge of chords and inversions and […]

Hank Ballard - American R&B 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.

Wendy Moten -  American singer, best known for the single "Come In Out of the Rain", which was a No. 8 hit in the UK in February 1994. Hoagy Carmichaeal - American songwriter, musician, actor, singer, and attorney. American composer and author Alec Wilder described Carmichael as the "most talented, inventive, sophisticated and jazz-oriented of […]

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.

Richard Tee - American pianist, studio musician, singer and arranger, who had several hundred studio credits and played on such notable hits as "In Your Eyes", "Slip Slidin' Away", "Just the Two of Us", "I'll Be Sweeter Tomorrow", "Crackerbox Palace", "Tell Her About It", and many others. Donald "Duck" Dunn - American bass guitarist, session […]

Percy Sledge - American R&B, soul and gospel singer. He is best known for the song "When a Man Loves a Woman", a No. 1 hit on both the Billboard Hot 100 and R&B singles charts in 1966. It was awarded a million-selling, Gold-certified disc from the RIAA. Jocelyn Brown - American R&B and dance […]

Garnet Mimms - American singer, influential in soul music and rhythm and blues. He first achieved success as the lead singer of Garnet Mimms & The Enchanters, and is best known for the 1963 hit "Cry Baby", later recorded by Janis Joplin. Tina Turner - American-born Swiss singer and actress. Widely referred to as the […]

Randy Brecker - American trumpeter, flugelhornist, and composer. His versatility has made him a popular studio musician who has recorded with acts in jazz, rock, and R&B. Jimi Hendrix - American musician, singer, and songwriter. Although his mainstream career spanned only four years, he is widely regarded as one of the most influential electric guitarists […]

Chuck Mangione - American flugelhorn player, voice actor, trumpeter and composer. He came to prominence as a member of Art Blakey's band in the 1960s, and later co-led the Jazz Brothers with his brother, Gap. He achieved international success in 1977 with his jazz-pop single "Feels So Good". Ronny Jordan - British guitarist and part […]

J. J. Barnes - American R&B singer and songwriter. He recorded several singles, starting in 1960. Des'ree - English pop recording artist who rose to popularity during the 1990s. She is best known for her hits "Feel So High", "You Gotta Be", "Life", and "Kissing You". At the 1999 Brit Awards she received the Brit […]

Billy Paul - American soul singer, known for his 1972 No. 1 single "Me and Mrs. Jones", as well as the 1973 album and single War of the Gods, which blends his more conventional pop, soul, and funk styles with electronic and psychedelic influences. Vesta Williams - American singer-songwriter, who performed across genres such as […]

Michael McDonald - American musician, singer-songwriter, keyboardist, and record producer known for his distinctive, soulful voice and as a member of the bands the Doobie Brothers and Steely Dan.  

Ronnie Laws - American jazz, jazz fusion, smooth jazz saxophonist. He is the younger brother of jazz flutist Hubert Laws, jazz vocalist Eloise Laws and the older brother of Debra Laws.