- male, 34 years old
- Lemon (Real name Andrew Anderson) (1975-) (official website: www.lemonshood.com) was born and raised in Brooklyn, New York City. Lemon is a...
- female, deceased (1975)
- Jackie "Moms" Mabley (born 19 March 1894, Brevard, North Carolina died 23 May 1975, White Plains, New York) was an African American comedian. Born...
- male
- 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...
- male, 59 years old
- Sugar Blue (born James Whiting in 1950) is a Grammy Award-winning American blues harmonica player. Sugar Blue is best known for his harmonica work...
- male, 80 years old
- Benny Golson (born January 25, 1929) is an American bebop/hard bop jazz tenor saxophonist, composer, and arranger. While in high school in...
- Autum Ashante (some sources Autumn Ashante) is an elementary-school-aged homeschooled African-American poet from Mount Vernon, New York. She gained...
- female, 78 years old
- Gloria Lynne (born Gloria Alleyne 23 November 1931 in New York City) is an American vocalist on several rhythm and blues hits in the 1950s and...
- female, deceased (2004)
- Doris Troy was an R&B singer, known to her many fans as "Mama Soul." She was born Doris Payne in The Bronx, the daughter of a Barbadian Pentecostal...
- male
- Charlie Thomas (born 7 April 1937 in Lynchburg, Virginia) is an American rhythm and blues singer best known for his work with The Drifters. Thomas...
- male, deceased (1969)
- Roy Hamilton was an American singer who achieved major success in both the R&B and pop charts in the 1950s. He moved to Jersey City in 1943,...
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