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Female doo-wop singers were much less common than males in the early days of doo-wop. Lillian Leach, lead singer of the Mellows from 1953 to 1958, helped pave the way for other women in doo-wop, soul and R&B. [41] Margo Sylvia was the lead singer for the Tune Weavers. [42]
Shirley M. Gunter (September 29, 1934 – December 1, 2015) [1] [2] was an American singer and songwriter who led one of the earliest female doo-wop groups, Shirley Gunter and the Queens, in the mid-1950s.
As one of the few female doo-wop singers in the 1950s, [5] Leach helped pave the way for female singers in soul and R&B, and has often been cited as an influence by later artists such as the Chantels and the Shirelles. [1] She is described in Notable Moments of Women in Music as "one of the premier R&B lead singers of the fifties". [6]
This is a list of doo-wop musicians. Contents: Top 0–9 A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z A The Accents The Ad Libs The Alley Cats Lee Andrews ...
The Barberettes (Korean: 바버렛츠) is a South Korean retro, doo-wop female group that debuted in 2014 as a trio, and is based in Seoul.With their covers and original music, they reproduce the sound of the 50s-60s music, [1] and are referred to as a time slip girl group [2] who travel back to the times of barbershop music [3] and harmonizing girl groups. [4]
Girls Aloud (pictured in 2005) an example of a girl group.. A girl group is a music act featuring three or more female singers who generally harmonize together. The term "girl group" is also used in a narrower sense in the United States to denote the wave of American female pop music singing groups, many of whom were influenced by doo-wop and which flourished in the late 1950s and early 1960s ...
Evidence of their enduring legacy is in the risqué dance moves favored by Elvis Presley, the doo-wop-influenced harmonies of early Beatles records, and the work of many other white artists who ...
Smith continued to perform solo. In 1995 the remaining original Chantels reformed as well and hired Noemi (Ami) Ortiz as their lead singer. On the PBS special Doo Wop 50, Smith reunited with the surviving original members of the Chantels and dedicated "Maybe" to Jackie Landry, who died in 1997.