Vivian Carter

female
Vivian Carter was an American record company executive. Carter was born in Tunica, Mississippi, in 1920 and moved to Gary, Indiana at an early age....
Wynton Kelly

Wynton Kelly

male, deceased (1971)
Wynton Kelly was an American jazz pianist who grew up in Brooklyn. Kelly started his professional career as a teenager, initially as a member of...

James Bracken

male, deceased (1972)
James C. Bracken was the co-owner and co-founder of Vee-Jay Records, along with his wife Vivian and her brother, Calvin Carter. As well as...
Pee Wee Crayton

Pee Wee Crayton

male, deceased (1985)
Connie Curtis Crayton, known as Pee Wee Crayton, was an American R&B guitarist and singer. Crayton began playing guitar seriously after moving to...

Earl Edwards

male
Earl Edwards was an American songwriter. Along with Bernice Williams and Gene Chandler (née Eugene Dixon), he co-wrote the 1962 hit "Duke of E...
Kal David

Kal David

male
Kal David is a blues musician famous for his work as a guitarist, singer and songwriter with some of the world's preeminent blues musicians as well...
Lee Young

Lee Young

male, 92 years old
Lee Young (born 7 March, 1917) is an American jazz drummer and singer. Young was born in New Orleans, Louisiana. His older brother was famed...
Eddie Taylor

Eddie Taylor

male, deceased (1985)
Edward Taylor was an American blues guitarist and singer. Born in Benoit, Mississippi, as a boy Eddie Taylor taught himself to play the guitar. He...

Billy "the Kid" Emerson

male, 79 years old
William Robert Emerson, known as Billy "The Kid" Emerson (born 21 December 1929), is an African-American R&B and rock and roll singer and...