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...

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