Category: Soul
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Allen Stone
About Allen Stone is an American soul and R&B singer and musician. Albums/Songs: Building Balance Radius Allen Stone Mystery Last to Speak APART Call to Action: What’s your favorite Allen Stone song? Share your thoughts in the comments below!
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Gregory Porter
About Gregory Porter is an American singer, songwriter and musician. He has twice won the Grammy Award for Best Jazz Vocal Album: first in 2014 for Liquid Spirit and then again in 2017 for Take Me to the Alley. Albums/Songs: Great Voices of Harlem Water Be Good Take Me to the Alley All Rise Still…
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Timmy Thomas
About Timothy Earle Thomas was an American R&B singer, keyboardist, songwriter, and record producer, best known for the hit song, “Why Can’t We Live Together”. Albums/Songs: Why Can’t We Live Together Gotta Give A Little Love (Ten Years After) R&B Hits & More Why Can’t We Live Together: The Best Of The TK Years 1972-81…
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Candi Staton
About Canzetta Maria “Candi” Staton is an American singer–songwriter, best known in the United States for her 1970 cover of Tammy Wynette’s “Stand by Your Man” and her 1976 disco chart-topper “Young Hearts Run Free”. In Europe, Staton’s biggest selling record is the anthemic “You Got the Love” from 1986, released in collaboration with The…
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Isaac Hayes
About Isaac Lee Hayes Jr. was an American singer, songwriter, composer, and actor. He was one of the creative forces behind the Southern soul music label Stax Records, serving as both an in-house songwriter and as a session musician and record producer, teaming with his partner David Porter during the mid-1960s. Hayes and Porter were…
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Carl Carlton
About Carl Carlton is an American R&B, soul, and funk singer-songwriter, best known for his hits “Everlasting Love” and “She’s a Bad Mama Jama “. Albums/Songs: Everlasting Love Everlasting: The Best Of Carl Carlton 25 Greatest Hits Carl Carlton The Bad C.C. Private Property Call to Action: What’s your favorite Carl Carlton song? Share your…
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Bobby Womack
About Robert Dwayne Womack was an American singer-songwriter and guitarist. Starting in the early 1950s as the lead singer of his family musical group the Valentinos and as Sam Cooke’s backing guitarist, Womack’s career spanned more than 60 years and multiple styles, including R&B, jazz, soul, rock and roll, doo-wop, and gospel. Albums/Songs: I Don’t…
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Love Unlimited
About Love Unlimited was a female vocal trio that provided backing vocals for American singer-songwriter Barry White on his albums and concert tours. They also found success with their own recordings. Albums/Songs: The Very Best of Under the Influence of… Love Unlimited From a Girl’s Point of View We Give to You In Heat Best…
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The O’Jays
About The O’Jays are an American R&B group from Canton, Ohio, formed in summer 1958 and originally consisting of Eddie Levert, Walter Lee Williams, William Powell, Bobby Massey, and Bill Isles. The O’Jays made their first chart appearance with the minor hit “Lonely Drifter” in 1963, but reached their greatest level of success once the…
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Billy Paul
About Paul Williams, known professionally as Billy Paul, was an American soul singer, known for his 1972 No. 1 single “Me and Mrs. Jones”. His 1973 album and single War of the Gods blends his more conventional pop, soul, and funk styles with electronic and psychedelic influences. Albums/Songs: Me and Mrs. Jones: The Best of…