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 […]