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Vocalist/instrumentalist Randy Muller was at the helm of two pivotal East Coast funk and disco aggregations in the '70s and '80s. One was...

No other artist of the rock & roll era compares to Prince. He was the rare combination of a visionary pop conceptualist and master...

Garth Brooks ushered in a new era of country music, taking the music from its down-home audience and into arenas where it not only...

With her classy, refined brand of romantic soul, Anita Baker was one of the definitive quiet storm singers of the '80s. Gifted with a...

By the time the Rolling Stones began calling themselves the World's Greatest Rock & Roll Band in the late '60s, they had already staked...

The Gap Band, centered around brothers Charlie, Ronnie, and Robert Wilson, toiled in obscurity for several years prior to becoming one of...

In the late 1970s, when the fortunes of Motown Records seemed to be flagging, Rick James came along and rescued the company, providing...

One of the most dynamic and accomplished artists to debut during the early '70s, singer and songwriter Chaka Khan secured her high...

One of the most powerful vocal groups of the '60s and '70s, the Staple Singers embraced an impressive stylistic diversity while always...

Aretha Franklin was one of the giants of soul music, and indeed of American pop as a whole. More than any other performer, she epitomized...

George Michael was the biggest British pop star of the 1980s, spinning a series of infectiously catchy pop singles into global stardom...

Internationally hailed as one of the greatest songstresses of our time, GRAMMY Award winning Roberta Flack remains unparalleled in her...

Most '60s bubblegum groups were faceless studio concoctions, made up of hired professionals and given nominal group identities after the...

` Chris de Burgh has never been as popular in his native Britain or the United States as he is in other areas of the world. He's had...

As a youth, Richie moved with his family to Illinois, where he attended Joliet East High School. After graduating in 1967, he returned to...

Stanley Kirk Burrell (born March 30, 1962), better known by his stage name MC Hammer (or simply Hammer), is an American rapper and...

Kool & the Gang became one of the most inspired and influential funk units during the '70s, and one of the most popular R&B groups of the...

John Lennon, in full John Winston Ono Lennon, (born October 9, 1940, Liverpool, England—died December 8, 1980, New York, New York, U.S.),...

Teddy Pendergrass, in full Theodore DeReese Pendergrass, (born March 26, 1950, Kings tree, South Carolina, U.S.—died January 13, 2010,...

George Edward Clinton was born in Kannapolis, North Carolina, grew up in Plainfield, New Jersey, and currently resides in Tallahassee,...