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Chicago soul is a style of soul music that arose during the 1960s in Chicago. Along with Detroit, the home of Motown, and Memphis, with its hard-edged, gritty performers (see Memphis soul ), Chicago and the Chicago soul style helped spur the album-oriented soul revolution of the early 1970s. The sound of Chicago soul, like southern soul with ...
1967–2009. Chicago was formed under the name The Big Thing on February 15, 1967, with the original lineup comprising guitarist and vocalist Terry Kath, keyboardist and vocalist Robert Lamm, drummer Danny Seraphine, saxophonist Walter Parazaider, trumpeter Lee Loughnane and trombonist James Pankow. [1] In December, bassist Peter Cetera was ...
The Chicago group was dubbed "First Family of Soul" because of their successful five-year chart run; the moniker was later passed on to the Jackson 5. [2] Initially a teenage five-member brothers and sister vocal group made up of the children of Betty and Clarence Burke, the Five Stairsteps, named by Mrs. Burke who thought her children looked like stair steps when lined up according to their ...
Bob Marley and the Wailers performing at Crystal Palace, London (1980) Bob Marley and the Wailers were a Jamaican reggae band created by Bob Marley.The band formed when self-taught musician Hubert Winston McIntosh met Neville Livingston (Bunny Wailer), and Robert Nesta Marley in 1963 and taught them how to play guitar, keyboards, and percussion.
Peter Paul Cetera Jr. (/ səˈtɛrə / sə-TERR-ə; born September 13, 1944) [1] is a retired American musician best known for being a frontman, vocalist, and bassist for the American rock band Chicago from 1967 until his departure in 1985. [1][2][3] His career as a recording artist encompasses 17 studio albums with Chicago [4] and eight solo ...
Wayne Baker Brooks (born April 30, 1970, Chicago). Guitarist and singer, son of the blues guitarist Lonnie Brooks (as above). [22] Big Bill Broonzy (June 26, 1903, Altheimer, Arkansas – August 14, 1958). Acoustic country blues musician who performed Chicago blues, singing and playing guitar and mandolin.
Wayne Cochran. Talvin Wayne Cochran (May 10, 1939 – November 21, 2017) [1] was an American singer, known for his outlandish outfits and platinum blond pompadour hairstyle. He was sometimes referred to as The White Knight of Soul. [4] Cochran is best known today for writing the song "Last Kiss", which he performed with the C.C. Riders.
terrykath.com. Terry Alan Kath (January 31, 1946 – January 23, 1978) was an American guitarist and singer-songwriter who is best known as a founding member of the rock band Chicago. He played lead guitar and sang lead vocals on many of the band's early hit singles alongside Robert Lamm and Peter Cetera. He has been praised by his bandmates ...