Edwin Joseph Bocage was born in 1930 in Algiers, a neighbourhood of New Orleans on the West bank of the...

Thomas Clay Washington was born in Chicago in 1944. He grew up on the South Side of the city on...

Willie Henderson was born in Pensacola, Florida, in 1941 and moved to Chicago during his childhood. He became a musician,...

James Mack came to Brunswick as an arranger at the suggestion of Willie Henderson. Mack was born in Tuscaloosa, Alabama,...

Shirley Goodman and Leonard Lee met in high school in New Orleans, where they were both born in June 1936....

Irving Lee Dorsey was born in 1924 in New Orleans. He moved to Portland, Oregon, at the age of ten,...

Chris Kenner was born in Kenner, Louisiana, not far from New Orleans, in 1929. He later moved to the city...

Irma Thomas has been a mainstay of the New Orleans sound since the age of 18 when her first single, "Don't Mess...

Leonard Caston Jr. was born in Chicago in 1943. His father, Leonard Senior, was a Blues musician from Mississippi who...

Etta James started her career at Modern Records in Los Angeles in 1955. The company released nine singles by James...