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His stage name sounding like infantile toilet talk, Cee Pee Johnson saw stars briefly during his career as a bandleader, his combo appearing in several Hollywood films highlighting novelty songs, vocal groups and jumping jive
Caedmon’s Call is a CCM band that fuses folk-rock with adult alternative rock influences Cliff Young (vocals, rhythm guitar), Derek Webb (lead guitar, vocals), Danielle Glenn (vocals), Aric Nitzberg (bass), Todd Bragg (drums), Randy Holsapple (organ), and Garett Buell (percussion) formed the Houston, TX-based band at Texas Christian University in the summer of 1992
The London group Central Line were among the better English soul ensembles of the early ’80s Vocalist/percussionist Linton Breckles, bassist/vocalist Camelle Hinds, keyboardist Lipson Francis, and guitarist Henry Defoe had a number of moderately successful releases on Mercury, with their biggest American hit, “Walking Into Sunshine,” in 1981
The duo of acoustic guitarist John Cephas and harpist Phil Wiggins enjoyed a partnership spanning across several decades, during which time they emerged among contemporary music’s most visible exponents of the Piedmont blues tradition
Cha Cha grew up in Detroit with her mother and twin sisters and began rapping at age ten Coming to the attention of manager Wendell White, she was signed to Noontime Music in Atlanta; Noontime’s distribution deal with Epic led to the release of her debut single “New Millennium (What Cha Wanna Do)” and first full-length album Dear Diary in 1999
Octavian was a Canadian rock group that formed around 1970 Members included guitarists Bill Gauvreau and Warren Barbour, keyboardist Rob McDonald, drummer Kirk Dorrow, bassist Ray Lessard, and singers John Pulkkinen and Darryl Alguire
Best known for the stuttering number three single “Give Me Just a Little More Time,” the Chairmen of the Board were one of the smoothest and most popular soul acts to emerge from Detroit in the early ’70s
Best known in the mainstream for her superb 1984 cover of Prince’s “I Feel for You,” R&B singer Chaka Khan enjoyed solo success as well as popularity as a member of the group Rufus
Best known for their near-pornographic funk classic “Jungle Fever,” the Chakachas were actually a group of Belgian-based studio musicians Led by Gaston Boogaerts, who served as the group’s arranger, the Chakachas first appeared during the early ’60s, recording a playful mixture of Latin music, jazz, and European-style exotica
Champaign took its name from its home city of Champaign, IL The group was an interracial septet comprising singers Pauli Carman and Rena Jones, guitarist Howard Reeder, keyboardists Michael Day and Dana Walden, bassist Michael Reed, and percussionist Rocky Maffitt