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The California duo of Dave Portillo and Eddie Sierra began rapping in 1985 under the name of Deity, later changing it to 12th Tribe Influenced by soul and heavy metal, they liked the rap of Kool Moe Dee, Whodini, and the Fat Boys

100 Proof (Aged in Soul) Biography, Photos, Pictures

100 Proof (Aged in Soul) teamed Detroit area vocalists Steve Mancha (born Clyde Wilson), Eddie Holiday (Eddie Anderson), and Joe Stubbs (the brother of the Four Tops’ Levi Stubbs and an alumnus of the Contours and the Falcons)

Many of the groups Lamont Dozier and Eddie and Brian Holland (HDH) signed to their family of labels (Invictus, Hot Wax, Music Merchant) in the late ’60s were supergrouped or piecemealed together

52nd Street was a vocal group from Manchester, England, who had a 1986 Top Ten R&B hit with “Tell Me How It Feels” The lineup was John Dennison, Diane Charlemagne, Tony Bowry, and Rony Henry

24-Carat Black Biography, Photos, Pictures

Classically trained Detroit arranger Dale Warren got his start with the famed Motown label and, from the late ’60s throughout the early ’70s, composed the majority of string scores for soul artists on Stax Records (arranging for such artists as Billy Eckstine, Eddie Floyd, Isaac Hayes, Albert King, and the Staple Singers, among others)

2nd Chapter of Acts Biography, Photos, Pictures

This major Christian-rock act, which began in the early ’70s, were defined by the sibling harmonies of Annie Herring, Matthew Ward, and Nelly Greisen Their music brought complex song structures to inspirational music

4Him
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Three times voted Gospel Group of the Year, the quartet known as 4Him formed in 1990 as a spinoff from the choral group Truth Fronted by Kirk Sullivan, the vocal group released its self-titled debut album in 1990 for the Benson label

3T
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Talent is known to run in some families and seems to all but flash flood in others The members of the group 3T are a perfect case in point Sons of Tito Jackson and the late Delores Martes, talented brothers Tariano Adaryll “Taj,” Taryll Adren, and Tito Joseph “TJ” call the extraordinary Michael Jackson uncle and famed singer Janet Jackson aunt

112
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Equally rooted in gospel, soul and hip-hop, 112 was the first and most successful urban vocal group to emerge from Sean “Puffy” Combs’ Bad Boy Records roster

UK disco just wasn’t the same after the electro-vamping two-hit wonders 5000 Volts shook up the scene in 1975 5000 Volts was formed by two fairly well known session vocalists, ex-Wild Honey singer Tina Charles and Martin Jay - the pair had previously worked together in a band called Northern Lights and, reunited as a duo, they recorded their first single, “Bye Love”, for producer Tony Eyers, adding the Eyers-penned “I’m On Fire” as the b-side

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