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The Dells at Vee-Jay

The Dells at Vee-Jay

In 1953, six school friends at Thornton Township High School in the southern Chicago suburb of Harvey formed The El-Rays....

Marlena Shaw at Chess

Marlena Shaw at Chess

Marlena Shaw was born Marlina Burgess in New Rochelle, New York, in 1942. Her love of music, especially Jazz, was...

Mitty Collier

Mitty Collier

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

Sugar Pie DeSanto

Sugar Pie DeSanto

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

Jan Bradley

Jan Bradley

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

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