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...