Billboard Top 100 Recording Artist, Leah Marr, Began her singing career at the tender age of three in Dallas, Texas. By age nine, entertaining close family and friends in the living room soon turned into recording radio commercials, appearances for local icons: Mary Kay Ash, Tom Landry's Dallas Cowboys, Arkansas Razorbacks, and WFAA's Mr.... [+] Read More

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Growing up between Washington, D.C., and a farm in Georgia, Alice Smith spent much of her time listening to and singing many different genres of music, but it wasn't until her college years that she began to actually consider the possibility that her voice could be her career. Singing backup for a band at Fordham University, Smith was in the... [+] Read More

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Cree Summer moved to Los Angeles to seek stardom and start her career as a singer, just like the dream of every struggling artist. She released her first album on WORK records in 1999. Street Faerie is a vibrant mixture of emotions and styles, from the changing euphorias of "Soul Sister" and "Deliciously Down" to the electric blues of the Lenny... [+] Read More

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She grew up listening to '70s soul and '80s hip-hop, but Erykah Badu drew more comparisons to Billie Holiday upon her breakout in 1997, after the release of her first album, Baduizm. The grooves and production on the album are bass-heavy R&B, but Badu's langurous, occasionally tortured vocals and delicate phrasing immediately removed her from... [+] Read More

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Heidi and The El cats has been playing blues a long damn time and loving it!

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Hey, I'm Josephine Grace. I'm a 23 year old singer/songwriter/musician/producer & currently live in Liverpool with my new hubby David. Last year I won a local 'battle of the bands' competition run by Streetwaves. Since then I made to the regional semi-final of the national competition Live & Unsigned, that turned out to be a dead end for me, but... [+] Read More

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So you want to know a little about The Ken DeRouchie Band, huh?

The Ken DeRouchie Band is a 9-piece Soul/R&B/Funk band featuring a 3-piece horn section and a massive rhythm section, performing original music written by Ken DeRouchie as well as a few handpicked classic Soul tunes.

Top players from the Northwest join... [+] Read More

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Like almost all other vocalists tagged neo-soul, Leela James' primary inspirations date no later than the late '70s (Aretha Franklin, Chaka Khan, and Tina Turner are regularly cited). Her debut album involved assistance from a range of noted studio rats from the fields of rap and R&B, including Kanye West, Raphael Saadiq, James Poyser, Chucky... [+] Read More

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Macy Gray parlayed an utterly unique voice and an outlandish sense of style into R&B stardom at the turn of the millennium, appealing to audiences of all colors in search of a fresh alternative to mainstream soul. Gray was actually born Natalie McIntyre in Canton, OH, in 1970, and grew up a shy, awkward youngster who was frequently teased about... [+] Read More

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When her debut album, What's the 411?, hit the street in 1992, critics and fans alike were floored by its powerful combination of modern R&B with an edgy rap sound that glanced off of the pain and grit of Mary J. Blige's Yonkers, NY, childhood. Called alternately the new Chaka Khan or new Aretha Franklin, Blige had little in common stylistically... [+] Read More

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Singer/songwriter Nelly Furtado heavily credits her ethnic background and childhood for culturally and crucially spawning her creativity as a female and as an inspiring musician. Born and raised in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada, Furtado's working-class parents, who are of Portuguese decent, instilled a hardcore work ethic during her... [+] Read More

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Nikka Costa (born: June 4, 1972) is no stranger to the music business. Having been raised inside some of the most influential social circles during her childhood, Costa was molded for perfection in her own right. She's the daughter of famed arranger/producer Don Costa (Paul Anka, Dinah Washington, Tony Bennett), not to mention the goddaughter of... [+] Read More

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Res (pronounced Reese) released her debut album, How I Do, in 2001. The mixture of hip-hop, rock, and soul (the hip-hop influence being the most prominent) was largely produced by Doc, who had worked on Esthero's 1998 release, Breath From Another. Prior to this debut, RES, born and raised in Philadelphia's suburbs, sang on GZA's Beneath the... [+] Read More

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Toby Lightman studied violin growing up in New Jersey, but it wasn't until college that she began to seriously consider a career in music. She studied radio and television at the University of Wisconsin, learning guitar in her spare time and singing with cover bands. After school Lightman moved to New York, where a fortuitous meeting with Wyclef... [+] Read More

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Toby Lightman studied violin growing up in New Jersey, but it wasn't until college that she began to seriously consider a career in music. She studied radio and television at the University of Wisconsin, learning guitar in her spare time and singing with cover bands. After school Lightman moved to New York, where a fortuitous meeting with Wyclef... [+] Read More

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Florida-based singer Whitney Wolanin began singing at the tender age of two, so by the time she recorded her first album at 13, she was an old hand at performing. During her 2004 summer vacation, Wolanin recorded original songs and updated versions of Motown favorites in Nashville, TN. Funk Brothers bassist Bob Babbitt and Wolanin's father,... [+] Read More

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