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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]
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]
Kathy Young with Christian Carrasco, one of the members of the Spanish doo-wop band called The Earth Angels. Kathy Young (born October 21, 1945) [1] is an American musician; she was a teen pop singer during the early 1960s, whose rendition of "A Thousand Stars", at age 15, rose to No. 3 on Billboard Hot 100.
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 ...
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.
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 ...
Girls Aloud (pictured in 2005) an example of a girl group.. A girl group is a music act featuring two 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 ...
The Aquatones are an American doo-wop group that started in the 1950s. [1] The group's lead singer was 17-year-old Lynne Nixon, a soprano who had had formal operatic training. The Aqua-Tones had one Billboard Hot 100 hit, entitled "You", for the Fargo label. [1] Their subsequent releases all failed to reach the Hot 100.