R&B Soul

In spite of the fact that Faith Evans carved out a recording career in her own right, her name will forever remain linked in the minds of many to her…

The Four Tops were one of soul music’s most popular and long-lived vocal groups. This quartet from Detroit endured for more than 40 years without a single change in personnel.…

The three brothers, Chris, Patrick and Alex were born on Martinique in the West Indies. They recorded their first single “Come To America” in Paris in 1976, and both it…

Born in Georgia in 1944, Gladys Knight began singing with her siblings at age 8, calling themselves “the Pips.” The group opened for R&B legends in the 1950s, then headed…

Gaynor was a singer with the Soul Satisfiers, a jazz/pop band, in the 1960s. Her first solo single was “She’ll Be Sorry/Let Me Go Baby” (1965). Her first real success…

Jones was born in Kingston, Jamaica, the daughter of Marjorie and Robert W. Jones, who was a politician and Apostolic clergyman. Her parents took Grace and her brother Randy to…

R&B vocalist Heather Headley was born to pastors in Trinidad in the mid-1970s. At an early age, she was surrounded by music and performance art. She started playing concert piano…

Born and raised on a West London council estate. Heather battled with shyness and a profound desire to sing from her early age. Captivated by gospel music’s inspirational elements and…

Herbie Hancock began playing piano at his home in Chicago when he was seven years old. He gave his first public performance two years later. In high school, he picked…

In 1969 while demoing a slight reggae version of the John Lennon song [Give Peace A Chance] with a group of friends, Errol Brown changed the lyrics of the number…