Carmen Lundy - Grammy nominated 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 - Member of R&B group, The Intruders. Ronald Bell - […]

Earl Carroll -  Lead vocalist of the doo-wop group The Cadillacs. Maxine Nightingale - English 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.

Dee Clark - American soul singer best known for a string of R&B and pop hits in the late 1950s and early 1960s, including the song "Raindrops", which became a million-seller in the United States in 1961. Joni Mitchell - Canadian-American singer-songwriter and painter. Drawing from folk, pop, rock, classical, and jazz, Mitchell's songs often […]

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 - Member of 60s/70s soul group THE STAIRSTEPS. Minnie Riperton -  American singer-songwriter best known for her 1975 single […]

Tommy Dorsey - American jazz trombonist, composer, conductor and bandleader of the big band era. He was known as the "Sentimental Gentleman of Swing" because of his smooth-toned trombone playing. His theme song was "I'm Getting Sentimental Over You". David Ebo - American singer from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. In 1976, Harold Melvin was looking for a […]

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. Herbert Laws - American flutist and saxophonist with a career spanning […]

Laverne Baker - American R&B singer who had several hit records on the pop chart in the 1950s and early 1960s. Ernestine Anderson - American jazz and blues singer. In a career spanning more than six decades, she recorded over 30 albums. Mose Allison - American jazz and blues pianist, singer, and songwriter.

Alexander O'Neal - American R&B singer, songwriter and arranger from Natchez, Mississippi. O'Neal came to prominence in the mid-1980s as a solo artist, with eleven Top 40 singles on the US R&B chart, three of which also reached the Top 40 of the Billboard Hot 100. Scherrie Payne - American singer. Payne is best known […]

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, songwriter and bassist. Frankie Gay - American recording artist and […]

Blue Lovett - Bass singer & songwriter who came to prominence as a member of the popular American R&B vocal group, The Manhattans. 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 […]

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.

Hank Ballard - American 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.

Coleman Hawkins - American jazz tenor saxophonist. One of the first prominent jazz musicians on his instrument, as Joachim E. Berendt explained: "there were some tenor players before him, but the instrument was not an acknowledged jazz horn". Andrew Love -  Saxophone player based in Memphis, Tennessee, best known for being a member of The […]

Wendy Moten - American jazz singer from Tennessee born in Memphis and based in Nashville. Moten has had a successful career in music, including several major-label solo records, some international hit songs, and a second career as a touring musician.

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. Juggy Murray Jones - American record label owner, […]

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. Stacy Lattisaw - American R&B singer from […]

Berry Gordy - American record executive, record producer, songwriter, film producer and television producer. He is best known as the founder of the Motown record label and its subsidiaries, which was the highest-earning African-American business for decades.  

Ronny Jordan - British guitarist and part of the acid jazz movement at the end of the twentieth century. Jordan described his music as "urban jazz", a blend of jazz, hip-hop, and R&B.

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 Award for Best British female solo artist. June Pointer - American singer, best known as the […]