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Anita Baker
Anita Baker is regarded as one of the most popular singers of soulful romantic ballads. She has won eight Grammy Awards and has five platinum albums and one gold album to her credit. Her vocal range is contralto.
Patti LaBelle
Patti LaBelle began her career in the early 1960s. In a career that has spanned 50 years, she has sold more than 50 million records worldwide. She has been inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame and the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
Mary Mary
Mary Mary is a contemporary gospel duo, consisting of sisters Erica Atkins-Campbell and Tina Atkins-Campbell. The duo are often credited for broadening the fan base of urban contemporary gospel. They have sold over 8 million albums worldwide.
Nas
Nas is a rapper. He has released eight consecutive platinum and multi-platinum albums and has sold over 30 million records worldwide. His 11th studio album "Life Is Good" was nominated for Best Rap Album at the 55th Annual Grammy Awards.
The Coasters
The Coasters are an American rhythm and blues/rock and roll vocal group who had a string of hits in the late 1950s. Although The Coasters originated outside of mainstream doo-wop, their records were so frequently imitated.
The System
The System is an American synthpop duo who debuted in the 1980s, consisting of vocalist/guitarist Mic Murphy and seasoned session keyboardist David Frank. The group is sometimes referred to as being "emotio-electro".
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Son of Bazerk and No Self Control
Son of Bazerk and No Self Control is an American hip-hop group consisting of Son of Bazerk, Almighty Jahwel, and ½ Pint. The group was formed by Hank Shocklee, a member of the production team Bomb Squad.
Lenny Kravitz
Lenny Kravitz is an American singer, songwriter, actor and record producer. He won the Grammy Award for Best Male Rock Vocal Performance four years in a row from 1999 to 2002, breaking the record for most wins in that category.
Destiny's Child
Destiny's Child was an American girl group whose final and best-known line-up comprised Beyoncé Knowles, Kelly Rowland, and Michelle Williams. Destiny's Child has sold more than sixty million records worldwide to date.
The Four Tops
The Four Tops are a vocal quartet, who helped to define the city's Motown sound of the 1960s. Lead singer Levi Stubbs, Abdul "Duke" Fakir, Renaldo "Obie" Benson and Lawrence Payton remained together for over four decades.
The Masqueraders
The Masqueraders is a recording group, who scored a minor hit in 1968 with "I Ain't Got to Love Nobody Else".
LaTavia Roberson
LaTavia Roberson rose to fame in the late 1990s, as an original member of the R&B group Destiny's Child, one of the world's best-selling girl groups of all-time. Roberson has sold over 25 million records with Destiny's Child.
Wyclef Jean
Wyclef Jean is a Haitian rapper, musician and actor. He first achieved fame as a member of the New Jersey hip-hop group the Fugees. Jean has won three Grammy Awards for his musical work.
Jagged Edge
Jagged Edge is an American mainstream R&B group signed through Jermaine Dupri's So So Def Recordings. The group has had a number of hit singles, many of which are produced by Dupri.
T-Boz
Tionne Watkins, better known by her stage name T-Boz, is an American singer, songwriter, model, dancer, actress, author, and executive producer. She rose to fame in the early 1990s as the lead singer of the girl-group TLC. She has won four Grammy Awards.
Nelsan Ellis
Nelsan Ellis was an American film and television actor and playwright. He was well known for his role as Lafayette Reynolds in the HBO series "True Blood", which he played from 2008 until the series' completion in 2014.
Keith Richards
Keith Richards is an guitarist and songwriter, best known as a founding member of the rock band The Rolling Stones. Rolling Stone credited Richards for "rock's greatest single body of riffs" on guitar and ranked him 4th on its list of 100 best guitarists.
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Mr. Every Day
Mr. Every Day came into the world by way of a Cherokee Indian mother and a Bahamian father. At the age of three, Mr. Every Day toured with Stevie Wonder and his godfather Gil Scott-Heron, who was the first recording artist signed by Clive Davis.
The O'Jays
The O'Jays are an American R&B group from Canton, Ohio, formed in 1958. Numerous hits followed through the 1970s and into the 1980s and 1990s, and The O'Jays were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2005.
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AJ Woodson
AJ Woodson is Editor-In-Chief at Black Westchester and Co-Owner at Urban Soul Media Group, the parent company. He is a father, author, writer, rapper, radio personality, hip-hop historian, and a freelance journalist.
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