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Faith, Hope & Charity Biography, Photos, Pictures

This Tampa trio featuring Brenda Hillard, Albert Bailey, and Zulema Cusseaux began recording for Maxwell in 1970, produced by Van McCoy, who wrote their first three singles “So Much Love” reached 14 on the R&B charts for Maxwell, and they scored their only number one R&B hit with “To Each His Own” on RCA in 1975

Frank Williams Biography, Photos, Pictures

As a member of the Jackson Southernaires, Frank Williams became one of gospel music’s most celebrated artists, working extensively with Malaco Records Born Franklin Delano Williams in 1947 in the small town of Smithdale, MS, he became aquainted with gospel music at a very young age

Frank Wilson Biography, Photos, Pictures

Frank Wilson wrote or co-wrote a long list of hits, including “Love Child,” “I’m Living in Shame,” “Up the Ladder to the Roof,” and “Stone Love” (Supremes); “All I Need” (Temptations); “Still Water Love” and “It’s the Way Nature Planned It” (Four Tops); “Boogie Down,” “Keep on Truckin’,” and “Darling Come Back Home” (Eddie Kendricks); “You Made Me So Very Happy” (Brenda Holloway, Blood, Sweat & Tears); “Chained” (Marvin Gaye); and “Whole Lot of Shakin’ in My Heart” (Smokey Robinson & the Miracles)

Frankie "Half-Pint" Jaxon Biography, Photos, Pictures

Frankie “Half Pint” Jaxon was an eccentric singer and a mysterious figure who disappeared after the mid-’40s Called “Half Pint” due to being 5’2”, Jaxon (who was an orphan) grew up in Kansas City

Frankie Beverly Biography, Photos, Pictures

After eight lean years with the Butlers, Frankie Beverly changed directions Self-contained bands were the vogue in the ’70s, so after a series of misfires, Beverly disbanded the Butlers

Frankie Ford Biography, Photos, Pictures

It’s ironic that some of the greatest New Orleans R&B of the 1950s was sung by a white man Although he could have passed for a teen idol, Frankie Ford sang with as much grit as anyone of any color in the Crescent City

Tijuana-born and San Diego-raised contemporary R&B artist Frankie J was raised on a steady diet of Latin music and American artists like Michael Jackson and Run-DMC At the age of 15, he was involved with the Latin freestyle scene and released a series of singles on a Canadian dance label

Vocalist Frankie Lee has always been an engaging and energetic live performer, though his recorded output is still very small, given the number of years he’s been around and how legendary his live shows have become

Frankie Lee Sims Biography, Photos, Pictures

A traditionalist who was a staunch member of the Texas country blues movement of the late ’40s and early ’50s (along with the likes of his cousin Lightnin’ Hopkins, Lil’ Son Jackson, and Smokey Hogg), guitarist Frankie Lee Sims developed a twangy, ringing electric guitar style that was irresistible on fast numbers and stung hard on the downbeat stuff

Frankie Lymon Biography, Photos, Pictures

Frankie Lymon (1942-1968) & the Teenagers were a New York doo wop group consisting of Joe Negroni, Herman Santiago, Jimmy Merchant, and Sherman Garnes but centered around the extraordinary talents of their lead singer, 13-year-old Frankie Lymon