- John Legend
John Legend (born John Stephens, 28 December 1978, Springfield, Ohio) is a five-time Grammy Award winning R&B singer, songwriter, and pianist. His debut studio album, the platinum-selling "Get Lifted", was released in late 2004, and features collaborations with rap artist and producer Kanye West as well as rapper Snoop Dogg. "Get Lifted" produced two singles: "Used to Love U" (U.S. top 100, … - Ike Turner
Izear Luster Turner (born November 5, 1931) is an African American musician (piano, guitar), bandleader, talent scout and record producer, best known for his work with his former wife Tina Turner. He is a member of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and in 2001 was inducted into the St. Louis Walk of Fame. - El Debarge
Eldra Patrick DeBarge (born June 4, 1961 in Grand Rapids, Michigan) is an American R&B and soul falsetto singer, the focal point and lead singer of the DeBarge family group throughout the early 1980s. He is currently married to Monique DeBarge but the two are separated. - Michael McCary
Michael Sean McCary (born December 16 1971, in Philadelphia) is an African-American R&B singer, best known as the bass singer of the popular R&B group, Boyz II Men. He also worked with the pop music legend Mariah Carey. In 2003, Michael McCary left the Boyz II Men due to chronic back problems resulting from scoliosis and personal problems. - Gloria Gaynor
Gloria Gaynor (born Gloria Fowles September 7, 1949) is an American singer, best-known for the disco era hits "I Will Survive" (Hot 100 #1, 1979), "Never Can Say Goodbye" (Hot 100 #9, 1974), and "I Am What I Am" (Hot 100 #82, 1983). She was born in Newark, New Jersey. - Jesse Stone
Jesse Stone was an American rhythm and blues musician and songwriter whose influence spanned a wide range of genres. He also used the pseudonym Charles Calhoun. Ahmet Ertegün stated that "Jesse Stone did more to develop the basic rock 'n' roll sound than anybody else." - Edwin Hawkins
Edwin Hawkins (born August 18, 1943 in Oakland, California) is a Grammy Award-winning American gospel and R&B musician, pianist, choir leader, composer and arranger. He is one of the originators of the urban contemporary gospel sound. He (and the Edwin Hawkins Singers) are best known for his arrangement of "Oh Happy Day" (1968-69), which was included on the Songs of the Century list. - Curtis Mayfield
Curtis Mayfield (June 3, 1942 - December 26, 1999) was an American soul, funk and R&B singer, songwriter and guitarist best known for his anthemic music with The Impressions and composing the soundtrack to the blaxploitation film "Superfly." From these works and others, he was highly regarded as a pioneer of funk and of politically conscious African-American music. He was also a bassist, pianist, saxophonist and drummer. - Toni Braxton
Toni Michelle Braxton (born October 7, 1967 in Severn, Maryland) is a six-time Grammy Award-winning American R&B singer, songwriter, and actress who was popular during the 1990s. She is famous for her husky alto vocal timbre. The RIAA named Braxton as one of the top selling artists of all time. - Barry White
Barry Eugene White (born Barrence Eugene Carter, -) was a Grammy Award winning American record producer, songwriter and singer responsible for the creation of numerous hit soul and disco songs. He released 106 gold and 41 platinum albums, 20 gold singles and ten platinum singles. All inclusive, record sales of White's music with singles, albums, compilation usage and paid digital downloads as a singer, … - Tito Jackson
Toriano Adaryll "Tito" Jackson (born on October 15 1953 in Gary, Indiana) is an American singer and guitarist and a charter member of the The Jackson 5. - Sheila E.
Sheila Escovedo (born December 12 1957, in Oakland, California), known by her stage name Sheila E., is an American musician, perhaps best known for her work with Prince and Ringo Starr. - Louis Jordan
Louis Jordan was a pioneering American jazz, blues and rhythm & blues musician and songwriter who enjoyed his greatest popularity from the late 1930s to the early 1950s. Known as The King of the Jukebox, Jordan was highly popular with both black and white audiences in the later years of the swing era. In 2004, Rolling Stone Magazine ranked him #59 on their list of the 100 Greatest Artists of All Time. - Wilson Pickett
Wilson Pickett was an American R&B/Rock and Roll and soul singer. Known for his raw, raspy, passionate vocal delivery, he recorded some of the most incendiary soul music of the twentieth century. A major figure in the development of Southern soul music, his recordings between 1963 and 1973 left behind a legacy of some of the deepest, funkiest soul music ever to emerge from the South. - Joey Lawrence
Joseph "Joey" Lawrence (born Joseph Lawrence Mignogna, Jr. on April 20, 1976) is an American actor. He became successful through the TV show "Blossom" in the 1990s, in which he played the character Joey Russo, a dim-witted young man who frequently uttered the phrase "WHOA!" At that time he used his nickname Joey. In the wake of his acting success, he started a recording career, releasing two albums during the 1990s. - Jeanie Tracy
Jeanie Tracy is a female African American R&B, Dance-pop, Hi-NRG and House music singer and actress born in Houston, Texas and raised in Fresno, California. - Colonel Abrams
Colonel Abrams is a House music and Urban contemporary musician who was born in Detroit, Michigan and raised in Brooklyn, New York. - Betty Wright
Betty Wright (born December 21 1953, in Miami, Florida) is a soul and R&B singer, who influenced a generation of female singer-songwriters and also influenced the world of hip hop, who sampled some of her more famous material. - Donny Hathaway
Donny Hathaway was an American soul musician. - Levi Stubbs
Levi Stubbs (born Levi Stubbles) (born June 6, 1936) is most famous as the lead singer of the Motown group, The Four Tops, from 1954 until 2000 when he fell ill due to bouts with diabetes and cancer. - Earl van Dyke
Earl Van Dyke (July 8, 1930, Detroit, Michigan - September 18, 1992) was an African American musician, most notable as the main keyboardist for Motown Records' in-house Funk Brothers band during the late 1960s and early 1970s. Van Dyke was preceded as keyboardist and bandleader of the Funk Brothers by Joe Hunter. Besides his work as the session keyboardist on popular Motown hits such as "Bernadette" by The Four Tops, "I Heard It Through the Grapevine" by Marvin Gaye, … - Howard Hewett
Howard Hewett (Born October 1, 1955 in Akron, Ohio) is an American R&B and gospel singer and former lead vocalist of the R&B group Shalamar. Raised in Akron, Ohio, Hewett moved to Los Angeles. He would eventually meet "Soul Train" dancer and future first wife Rainey Riley-Cunningham, then a secretary of the show's creator and original host Don Cornelius. It was he who introduced Hewett to fellow "Soul Train" dancers Jody Watley and Jeffrey Daniel, … - Joi Cardwell
Joi Cardwell is a female African American Club/Dance, House music and R&B music singer-songwriter. - Channel 7
Channel 7 formerly known as 7 Aurelius (born Marcus Vest in Lexington, Kentucky) is a singer and hip hop/R&B songwriter and producer, most noted for his work with The Inc. Records (formerly Murder Inc.). Seven is, to some extent, associated with The Inc. He has co-produced, played instruments on many of The Inc.'s releases. He has also done background vocals for many of the artists he has produced for. - Maurice White
Maurice White (born December 19 1941 in Memphis, Tennessee) is an American soul, funk, and R&B singer, songwriter, musician, record producer, and bandleader. - Andre Williams
Andre Williams (born Zeffrey Williams in Bessemer, Alabama, on November 1, 1936) is an American R&B and rock and roll musician. Some sources believe that Williams is the long-lost brother of Screamin' Jay Hawkins, a blues musician whose song "I Put A Spell On You" landed on the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame's 500 Songs that Shaped Rock and Roll charts. He lived in a housing project with his mother until she died when he was only six years of age. - Robin S.
Robin S. (full name Robin Stone), is a singer-songwriter from Queens, New York who scored success in the 1990s with such hit singles as "Show Me Love" (which was her debut single and a #1 Club hit) "Luv 4 Luv", "Back It Up", "Midnight" and "It Must Be Love". - Edward Patten
Edward "Eddie" Roy Patten (2 August, 1939 - February 25 2005) was an Atlanta, Georgia-born R&B/soul singer, best known as a member of Gladys Knight & the Pips. He was lead singer Gladys Knight's cousin. Patten suffered from diabetes, and died of a stroke in Livonia, Michigan on February 25 2005. - Carol Douglas
"Carol Douglas" (b. April 7, 1948 in Brooklyn, New York) is an actress and singer who is best known for her Disco hits "Doctor's Orders" (1975) and "Midnight Love Affair" (1976). Carol comes from a musical family background, her mother being blues and jazz singer "Minnie Newsome" and her cousin, soul legend, Sam Cooke. - Marv Johnson
Marvin Earl Johnson was an American R&B and soul singer most notable for performing on the first record to ever come from Motown. Born in Detroit, Michigan, Johnson began his career singing with a doo-wop group called the Serenaders in the mid-1950s. With budding talents not only as a singer but as a songwriter and pianist, he would eventually be discovered by Motown CEO Berry Gordy, … - Ultra Naté
Ultra Naté is a popular American house music, Dance-pop and sometimes R&B musician who has achieved a respectable amount of success on the pop charts with songs such as "Free" and "If You Could Read My Mind" as part of Stars on 54. Virtually all of her singles have reached the Top 10 of the U.S. Hot Dance Club Play chart. Such singles include "Show Me", "Free", "Desire", "Get it Up (the Feeling)", "Love's the Only Drug", and her most recent number-one "Automatic". - Kym Mazelle
Kym Mazelle (born Kimberley Grigsby in 1960, in Gary, Indiana, U.S.) is an American Dance-pop, Hi-NRG, soul music, and House music singer. She was brought up and lived on the same street as the Jackson family and knew Michael Jackson's mother and uncle. - Kristine W
Kristine W (Kristine Weitz) (b. June 3 1963 in Pasco, Washington) is an American Dance-pop, House music and Hi-NRG singer/songwriter. She has released four albums, three of them through major labels, plus an early recording she sells to fans through her website. Her three label releases are "Land of the Living" (1996), "Stronger" (2000), "Fly Again" (2003). The early recording she released on her own is called "Perfect Beat". - Bootsy Collins
William "Bootsy" Collins (born October 26, 1951 in Cincinnati, Ohio) is a funk bassist, singer, and songwriter. - Aaron Neville
Aaron Neville (born January 24, 1941 in New Orleans, Louisiana) is an American soul and R&B singer. - Byron Stingily
Byron Stingily is a male African American R&B/Soul and House music singer born in Chicago, Illinois. - Keith Robinson
Keith Robinson is an American actor and R&B singer. Robinson was born in Kentucky, grew up in the Augusta, Georgia suburb of Evans, and later moved to Atlanta. While attending the University of Georgia, Robinson signed a recording contract with Motown Records, although the label never issued any of his material. Moving to Los Angeles and touring to acting, Robinson gained a starring role in the TV series "Power Rangers Lightspeed Rescue" as Joel Rawlings, … - Alexander O'Neal
Alexander O'Neal (born November 14 1953 in Natchez, Mississippi) is an American singer. O'Neal sings in the retro-style of soul when it comes to doing it in both the dance-pop numbers and modern, urban ballads. He is considered to be one of the very best artists that former, fellow "The Time" members Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis had ever produced for. - Chuck Jackson
Chuck Jackson (born 1937) is an R&B singer who was one of the first artists to successfully record material by Burt Bacharach and Hal David. He has performed with moderate success since 1961. His hits include "I Don't Want to Cry," "Any Day Now," and "I Keep Forgettin'." He was born on July 22, 1937 in Latta, South Carolina, but was raised in Pittsburgh. He was "discovered" when he opened for soul legend Jackie Wilson at the Apollo Theater. - Geraldine Hunt
Geraldine Hunt was born on February 10 1945 in St. Louis, Missouri and raised in Chicago, Illinois. She is a R&B singer who had several hits in the early eighties, including a #1 on the Hot Dance Music/Club Play chart: "Can't Fake the Feeling" spent seven weeks at the top in 1980. Hunt is the mother of Rosalind Hunt of Chéri and singer Freddie James.
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