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Retrieved February 19, 2020. ^ Whitall, Susan (August 27, 2014). "Freda Payne returns to her roots on new album and at jazz fest". The Detroit News. Retrieved February 19, 2020. ^ Bronson, Fred (January 29, 2019). "From Supremes Lead Singer to Playwright, the Double Life of Scherrie Payne". Billboard.
The genesis of Blues music in Detroit occurred as a result of the first wave of the Great Migration of African-Americans from the Deep South. In the 1920s, Detroit was home to a number of pianists who performed in the clubs of Black Bottom and played in the Boogie-woogie style of blues, such as Speckled Red (Rufus Perryman), Charlie Spand, William Ezell, and most prominently, Big Maceo ...
Martha Rose Reeves was born in Eufaula, Alabama, [1] the first daughter of Elijah Joshua Reeves and Ruby Lee Gilmore Reeves, and the third of the couple's 11 children. She was a baby when the family moved from Eufaula to Detroit, Michigan, where her grandfather, Reverend Elijah Reeves, was a minister at Detroit's Metropolitan Church.
Motown is an American record label owned by the Universal Music Group. It was founded by Berry Gordy Jr. as Tamla Records on January 12, 1959, [ 2 ][ 3 ] and incorporated as Motown Record Corporation on April 14, 1960. [ 4 ] Its name, a portmanteau of motor and town, has become a nickname for Detroit, where the label was originally headquartered.
Doreen J. Ketchens (born October 3, 1966) is a virtuoso American jazz clarinetist who performs Dixieland and trad jazz.She has performed at concert halls, music festivals, and U.S. embassies, as well as in decades of weekly performances in Dixieland's tradition in the Royal Street Performing Arts Zone in the French Quarter of New Orleans with her band, Doreen's Jazz New Orleans.
July 29, 2005. (2005-07-29) (aged 99) Manhattan, New York, US. Genres. Cabaret. easy listening. traditional pop. Hildegarde Loretta Sell, known as Hildegarde (February 1, 1906 – July 29, 2005) was an American cabaret singer, who was well known for the song "Darling, Je Vous Aime Beaucoup".
Gertrude "Ma" Rainey (née Pridgett; April 26, 1886 – December 22, 1939) [1] [2] [3] was an American blues singer and influential early-blues recording artist. [4] Dubbed the "Mother of the Blues", she bridged earlier vaudeville and the authentic expression of southern blues, influencing a generation of blues singers. [5]
Melissa Viviane Jefferson (born April 27, 1988), [ 2 ] known professionally as Lizzo (/ ˈlɪzoʊ /), is an American rapper and singer. Born in Detroit, Michigan, she moved to Houston, Texas, with her family at the age of ten. After college, she moved to Minneapolis, Minnesota, where she began her recording career in hip hop music.