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

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

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

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...