Laura Lee Newton was born in Chicago in 1945 but grew up in Detroit. In 1956 she joined a Gospel...

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...