Jo Ann Garrett was probably the youngest artist signed to Chess Records. She was just fifteen years old when she...

Mitty Collier was born in Birmingham, Alabama, in 1941. She developed her musical ability in church choirs and joined the...

Sugar Pie DeSantowas born in Brooklyn in 1935. Her real name was Umpeylia Marcema Balinton, but she was usually called...

Jan Bradley was born Addie Bradley in Byhalia, Mississippi, in 1943. The family moved to Robbins, a Chicago suburb, when...

In the development of Soul and R&B at Chess Records, there was a group of female artists, who all had...

Fontella Bass was born in 1940 in St. Louis, Missouri. She was a gifted musician from an early age, singing...

The Impressions signed for ABC-Paramount in New York, after the group left Vee-Jay Records in 1961. Everything started brilliantly, with...

By the end of 1983 work with SOLAR Records was winding down, so Benjamin concentrated instead on the links that...

John Fry’s interest in electronics began in the late fifties, when he and a couple of friends started to record...

In 1961 the Pips released a single “Every Beat of My Heart” on Vee-Jay. It was their second single, after...