Leon Thomas who changed his name to Leone in 1974 made his mark in 1969 singing The Creator Has a Master Plan with Pharoah Sanders and showing that even avant-garde jazz can become popular under some circumstances A fairly conventional singer the mos…

The Danish trio of producers known for its work as Future 3 regrouped as System a guise for its dub productions The trio comprised of producers Thomas Knak Anders Remmer and Jesper Skaaning first came together in the mid-90s for the We Are the Future…

No recording artist has more impeccable street credentials than Joe Bataan the originator of the New York Latin Soul style that paralleled Latin bugalu and anticipated disco His musical experience began with street corner doo-wop in the 1950s and cam…

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA-based R&B vocal duo comprising Fatin Dantzler and Aja Graydon. The duo made their recording debut in 2003 after five years of marriage, and having established themselves on the burgeoning Philadelphia-based neo-soul sc…

b. Andwele Gardner, Detroit, Michigan, USA. That this innovative nu-soul artist's full first name means "God has brought me" in Swahili is frequently cited as fitting for a man considered as an outstanding talent. This may be overstating the case but…

Nashville-born Detroit-based singersongwritermusicianproducer Kem Owens is a smooth spiritually oriented RB artist inspired by the likes of Stevie Wonder Steely Dan and Grover Washington Jr His self-released debut Kemistry sold 10000 copies and it wa…

A classically trained vocalist Mia Doi Todd began writing songs while a student at Yale University Her debut album The Ewe and the Eye was released on Xmas records in 1997 Come Out of Your Mine followed in 1999 on the Communion Label With only sparse…

Vadim was born in the Soviet Union but moved to London when he was three. After becoming interested in hip-hop, he began to DJ and in 1995 released his first EP, Abstract Hallucinogenic Gases, on his own Jazz Fudge label. Later that year he continued…

Arguably the hottest of the 70s Ohio funk bands Slave had a great run in the late 70s and early 80s Trumpeter Steve Washington formed the group in Dayton in 1975 Vocalist Floyd Miller teamed with Tom Lockett Jr Charlie Bradley Mark Adams Mark Hicks D…

Born Goapele Mohlabane in Oakland CA this singer grew up in a socially conscious and politically active family Her mother married South African political exile Douglas Mohlabane while studying in Nairobi Kenya At an early age Goapele attended the Ber…

Tosca is essentially a side-project for Richard Dorfmeister, one half of Austrian dub-breaks artists Kruder And Dorfmeister and is a collaboration with his old school friend, Richard Huber. Tosca's 1997 debut, Opera, established the duo's unusual and…