- male, 92 years old
- Art Rupe (born Arthur Goldberg, September 5, 1917, Greensburg, Pennsylvania) started Specialty Records in Los Angeles in 1945. Specialty is noted...
- male, 76 years old
- Lloyd Price (born March 9, 1933 in Kenner, Louisiana) was an early New Orleans- style rock and roll musician. His first recording, "Lawdy Miss...
- male, deceased (1980)
- Larry Williams was an American rhythm and blues and rock and roll singer, songwriter and pianist from New Orleans, Louisiana. He is best known for...
- male, deceased (1983)
- Roy Milton was an American R&B singer, drummer and bandleader. Milton’s grandmother was a Native American. He was born in Wynnewood, Oklahoma and gr...
- male, deceased (1959)
- Eddie "Guitar Slim" Jones (December 10 1926 - February 7 1959) is a New Orleans blues guitar player from the 1940s and 1950s best known for the...
- female, 68 years old
- Irma Thomas (b. February 18, 1941, Ponchatoula, Louisiana) is a Grammy Award winning soul and rhythm and blues singer from New Orleans. She is...
- male, deceased (1983)
- Jimmy Liggins was an American R&B guitarist and bandleader. Following the success of his brother Joe, Jimmy Liggins started his recording career as...
- female, deceased (1993)
- Camille Howard was an American R&B pianist and singer. When in California in the 1940s, she became the featured piano player with Roy Milton’s So...
- male, deceased (2006)
- Floyd Dixon (8 February 1929 - July 26 2006) was an American rhythm and blues pianist. Dixon was born Jay Riggins Jr. in Marshall, Texas. He was...
- male
- Johnny Vincent (1927 - February 2000), born John Vincent Imbragulio, was an American record producer for Art Rupe at Specialty Records, founded Ace...
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