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Darnell Chavis
Member, Solo

Music

Solo is a R&B musical group. The original members were Robert Anderson, Darnell Chavis, Eunique Mack, and Dan Stokes. The group recorded their gold-selling debut album in Minneapolis and released it in 1995, with production by Jimmy Jam & Terry Lewis.

Tags: Jimmy Jam & Terry Lewis · Solo · A&M Records · Perspective Records · Singer · R&B · Soul Music · Certified Gold · New York · Soul Train Music Award Nominee

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Robert Anderson
Member, Solo

Music

Solo is a R&B musical group. The original members were Robert Anderson, Darnell Chavis, Eunique Mack, and Dan Stokes. The group recorded their gold-selling debut album in Minneapolis and released it in 1995, with production by Jimmy Jam & Terry Lewis.

Tags: Jimmy Jam & Terry Lewis · Solo · Bass Player · R&B · Group Member · Heaven · Marvin Gaye · Music · Gold Record · Soul Music

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Kathy Sledge
Grammy Award Nominee and Former Lead Singer, Sister Sledge

Music

Kathy Sledge is a singer who is best known as lead singer of the R&B group Sister Sledge. As a solo performer, she has had several hits on the International Pop and Hot Dance Music/Club Play chart, including "Take Me Back to Love Again", which hit #1.

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Salt-N-Pepa
Salt-N-Pepa
Grammy Award Winner

Music

Salt-N-Pepa is hip-hop trio from Queens, New York. The group was formed in 1985 and was one of the first all-female rap groups. They won the 1995 Grammy Award for Best Rap Performance by a Duo or Group.

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Whitney Houston
Whitney Houston
6-Time Grammy Award Winner and Inductee, Rock an Roll Hall of Fame

Music

In 2009, Guinness World Records cited Whitney Houston her as the most awarded female act of all time. She is one of pop music's best-selling music artists of all-time, with an estimated 170 - 200 million records sold worldwide.

Collections: Black Music Month

Tags: Arista Records · Clive Davis · Grammy Award Winner · Rock and Roll Hall of Fame · Bobby Brown · The Voice · Singer · MTV Video Music Award Winner · Billboard Music Award Winner · NAACP Image Award Winner

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Jackie Wilson
Jackie Wilson
Recording Artist

Music

Jackie Wilson was an American soul singer-songwriter and performer. Gaining fame in his early years as a member of the R&B vocal group Billy Ward and His Dominoes, he went solo in 1957 and recorded over 50 hit singles.

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Bette Midler
Bette Midler
3-Time Grammy Award Winner and 3-Time Emmy Award Winner

Music

In a career spanning almost half a century, Bette Midler has won three Grammy Awards, four Golden Globes, three Emmy Awards, and a special Tony Award. She has sold over 35 million records worldwide.

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Bonnie Raitt
Bonnie Raitt
10-Time Grammy Award Winner

Music

Bonnie Raitt is an American blues singer, songwriter and slide guitar player. She has received 10 Grammy Awards. She is listed as number 50 in Rolling Stone magazine's list of the 100 Greatest Singers of All Time.

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Céline Dion
Céline Dion
Recording Artist

Music

Céline Dion is a Canadian singer and businesswoman. She remains the best-selling Canadian artist and one of the best-selling artists of all time with record sales of over 200 million copies worldwide.

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Alee Opuiyo
Owner, Dynamic Public Relations

Business

Alee Opuiyo is a 2005 Howard University School of Communications graduate. She majored in Broadcast Journalism and minored in Political Science. While Alee attended Howard, she interned with the cable network Fox News.

Tags: Publicist

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Tito Puente
Tito Puente
The Musical Pope

Music

Tito Puente was an American mambo musician and Latin jazz composer. The son of native Puerto Ricans Ernest and Ercilia Puente, living in New York City's Spanish Harlem community, Puente is often credited as "The Musical Pope".

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Trisco Pearson
Member, Force M.D.'s

Music

Force M.D.'s is an American R&B vocal group that was formed in 1981 in Staten Island, New York. Later, Trisco Pearson joined the group.

Tags: Force M.D.'s · RIP · Recording Artist · Singer · Group Member · Tender Love · Jimmy Jam & Terry Lewis · Billboard Hot 100 · R&B · Music

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The Platters
The Platters
Inductee, Rock and Roll Hall of Fame

Music

The Platters was an American vocal group. They were one of the most successful vocal groups of the early rock and roll era. Their distinctive sound was a bridge between the pre-rock Tin Pan Alley tradition and the burgeoning new genre.

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Foreigner
Foreigner
Recording Group

Music

Foreigner is a British-American hard rock band, originally formed in New York City in 1976 by veteran English musician Mick Jones and fellow Briton and ex-King Crimson member Ian McDonald along with American vocalist Lou Gramm.

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Harold Melvin & The Blue Notes
Harold Melvin & The Blue Notes
Recording Group

Music

Harold Melvin & The Blue Notes were an American R&B/Soul vocal group, one of the most popular Philadelphia soul groups of the 1970s. The group's repertoire included soul, R&B, doo-wop, and disco. Founded in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

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NK5
Recording Group

Music

Discovered by legendary manager and hit record producer Maurice Starr, NK5 is his newest preteen boy band. Starr is known and respected around the world for discovering, promoting, marketing, and creating pop teen icons New Kids on the Block.

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Dionne Warwick
Kennedy Center Honoree, Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award Winner, and 5-Time Grammy Award Winner

Music

Dionne Warwick is a 5-time Grammy Award winning legend. She is an American singer, actress, and television show host, who became a United Nations Global Ambassador for the Food and Agriculture Organization, and a United States Ambassador of Health.

Collections: Black Music Month

Tags: Grammy Award Winner · Kennedy Center Honoree · Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award Winner · Cissy Houston · Whitney Houston · The Drinkard Singers · Burt Bacharach · University of Hartford · Actress · Television Host

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André Wallace
Mayor, Mount Vernon, New York (2019) and Owner, Creative Direction Construction & Design

Politics

André Wallace was Mayor in 2019 and formerly City Council President at Mount Vernon, New York. He is also the owner of a construction company, Creative Direction Construction & Design.

Tags: Mount Vernon, New York · City Council President · Mayor · Melba Moore · Construction · Creative Direction Construction & Design · Westchester County, New York · Inner Suburb of New York City · Democrat · Politician

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George Michael
George Michael
Recording Artist

Music

Georgics Kyriacos Panayiotou, known professionally as George Michael, is an English singer-songwriter and record producer. He rose to fame during the 1980s and 1990s with his style of post-disco dance-pop.

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Force M.D.'s
Force M.D.'s
Recording Group

Music

Force M.D.'s is an American R&B vocal group that was formed in 1981 in Staten Island, New York. Although the group has old school hip hop roots, it is perhaps best known for two tunes that are widely considered 1980s quiet storm classics.

Tags: Music · Jimmy Jam & Terry Lewis · Staten Island, New York · Tender Love · Love Is a House · 1980s · Quiet Storm · R&B · Warner Bros. Records · Reprise Records

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Gerald Alston
Grammy Award Winner and Lead Singer, The Manhattans

Music

Gerald Alston is an American R&B singer, and the lead singer with The Manhattans. Between 1988 and 1995, he left the group to record five albums (later recording his tribute to Sam Cooke in 2008) and ten solo singles.

Tags: The Manhattans · Shining Star · Kiss and Say Goodbye · Columbia Records · Grammy Award Winner · Motown Records · The Blind Boys of Alabama · Shirley Alston Reeves · The Shirelles · True Gospel

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Sonny Turner
Former Lead Singer, The Platters

Music

Sonny Turner is best known for replacing Tony Williams as lead singer of The Platters. The group had 40 charting singles on the Billboard Hot 100, including four no. 1 hits, and were, for a period of time, the most successful vocal group in the world.

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Ari Gold
Recording Artist

Music

Ari Gold regularly addressed being both Jewish and gay. He landed his first job as a professional singer by performing the lead role on the CBS Children's recording "Pot Belly Bear: Song and Stories". He also performed backing vocals for Diana Ross.

Tags: Recording Artist · Glam Award Winner · VH1 · MTV · BBC · Top of the Pops · Bravo · Diana Ross · Billboard · Boy George

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Solo
Recording Group

Music

Solo is a R&B musical group. The original members were Robert Anderson, Darnell Chavis, Eunique Mack, and Dan Stokes. The group recorded their gold-selling debut album in Minneapolis and released it in 1995, with production by Jimmy Jam & Terry Lewis.

Tags: Jimmy Jam & Terry Lewis · Recording Group · A&M Records · Perspective Records · Certified Gold · Heaven · R&B · Billboard Hot 100 · Angie Stone · Raphael Saadiq

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Tito Puente Jr.
Latin Musician and Bandleader

Music

Billboard Music Award winner Tito Puente Jr. is a Latin musician and bandleader. He is the son of legendary Mambo and Latin Jazz musician Tito Puente and the brother of New York City meteorologist Audrey Puente. Puente Jr. carries on his father's legacy.

Tags: Billboard Music Award Winner · Tito Puente · Mambo · Legacy · Audrey Puente · Richard Puente · Percussionist · Latin Music · Entertainment · Recording Artist

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