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

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...

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