James Brown - American singer, songwriter, dancer, musician, record producer, and bandleader. The central progenitor of funk music and a major figure of 20th-century music, he is often referred to by the honorific nicknames "Godfather of Soul", "Mr. Dynamite", and "Soul Brother No. 1".

Nick Ashford - songwriting partner and later his wife, wrote some of Motown's biggest hits, like “Ain't No Mountain High Enough” and “Ain't Nothing Like the Real Thing,” before they remade their careers as a recording and touring duo, died on Monday in New York City. Tyrone Davis - American blues and soul singer with […]

Jheryl Busby - American recording company executive who was the former President and Chief Executive Officer of Motown Records. Johnnie Taylor - American recording artist and songwriter who performed a wide variety of genres, from blues, rhythm and blues, soul, and gospel to pop, doo-wop, and disco.

Herb Cox - Lead singer from R&B vocal group The Cleftones.

Jimmy Ruffin - American soul singer, and elder brother of David Ruffin of the Temptations. He had several hit records between the 1960s and 1980s, the most successful being the Top 10 hits "What Becomes of the Brokenhearted" and "Hold On".

Phillip Bailey - American R&B, soul, gospel and funk singer, songwriter and percussionist, best known as an early member and one of the two lead singers of the band Earth, Wind & Fire. Noted for his four-octave vocal range and distinctive falsetto register, Bailey has won seven Grammy Awards.

David Prater - American Southern soul and rhythm & blues singer and musician, who was the deeper baritone/tenor vocalist of the soul vocal duo Sam & Dave from 1961 until his death in 1988.