Biography: Aaron Benward, Alexander O'Neal, Alexander Robotnick, Aaron Brown, Alexis Korner, Alfie Silas, Alfonzo Hunter, Alfred "Snuff" Johnson, Algebra, Alger "Texas" Alexander,

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Aaron Benward Biography, Photos, Pictures

Singer/songwriter Aaron Benward is the younger half of a father-and-son Christian music duo known as Aaron & Jeoffrey The team released a self-titled debut album in 1995, doing well with it and the others that followed

Alexander O'Neal Biography, Photos, Pictures

This Minneapolis soul man cut his teeth in the Time but was bounced (for looking “too black”) before they signed with Warner Brothers His tough, ballsy voice has the same grain and range as Otis Redding’s

Alexander Robotnick Biography, Photos, Pictures

The alias of jazz keyboard player and vocalist Maurizio Dami, Alexander Robotnick existed for several years during the mid-’80s as an Italian synth-pop/disco crossover for the Italian label Materiali Sonori

Music executive Aaron Brown headed the Nashville music publishing branch of one of the world’s largest gospel music label, Word Records He was also instrumental in lobbying for decades-overdue writer’s royalties for songwriter Clevant Derricks (“Just a Little Talk With Jesus,” “When God Dips His Pen of Love in My Heart”)

Alexis Korner Biography, Photos, Pictures

Without Alexis Korner, there still might have been a British blues scene in the early 1960s, but chances are that it would have been very different from the one that spawned the Rolling Stones, nurtured the early talents of Eric Clapton and made it possible for figures such as John Mayall to reach an audience

Los Angeles singer Alfie Silas’ highest charting single was “There I Go,” a 1982 Top 30 R&B hit Silas grew up singing in church and later sang in the gospel group We while attending Los Angeles City College

Alfonzo Hunter Biography, Photos, Pictures

Part of the rise of mid-’90s soul singers who proved quite proficient at rapping as well, Alfonzo Hunter debuted in 1996 with the first release on Def Squad Records — the label formed by Def Squad and Erick Sermon

Alfred "Snuff" Johnson Biography, Photos, Pictures

Texas country bluesman Alfred “Snuff” Johnson played guitar since the 1920s, but didn’t perform “professionally” for another 60 years, and wasn’t recorded until 1994

The career of Atlanta vocalist Algebra (formerly recording as Algebra Blessett) began to take shape with background credits on albums by IndiaArie and Musiq Algebra also appeared alongside Anthony Hamilton on Miri Ben-Ari’s “She Was Just a Friend” before releasing her first album, 2006’s Purpose, on the revitalized Kedar label

Alger "Texas" Alexander Biography, Photos, Pictures

A primal, stirring blues voice, Alexander was well known in the Brazos River bottomlands when he started recording in 1927 From bluesmen like Lightnin’ Hopkins and Lowell Fulson comes a verbal image of this big-voiced master of blues song craft standing on a wagon bed at a country fair or picnic

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