Biography: Lebo Mathosa, Ledisi, Lee "Shot" Williams, Lee & Cindy Condran, Lee Allen, Lee Andrews, Lee Andrews & the Hearts, Lee Atwater, Lee Brown, Lee Charles,

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Lebo Mathosa Biography, Photos, Pictures

Renowned for her signature blonde hair and provocative stage show, Lebo Mathosa was the most successful South African R&B singer of her generation Tragically, an auto accident claimed her life at the apex of her career

Ledisi (means to bring forth in Nigerian) was born in the Big Easy where she sang with New Orleans Symphony Orchestra when she was eight years old and spent many adolescent hours watching her mom perform with a local R&B band, often in a nearby park

Lee "Shot" Williams Biography, Photos, Pictures

Vocalist Lee “Shot” Williams sings a style of Southern soul-blues in keeping with the tradition of vocalists like Bobby “Blue” Bland, Johnnie Taylor and Albert King

Lee & Cindy Condran Biography, Photos, Pictures

Commercial jingle writers creating a gospel music community in Annville, PA, they cover many idioms with an articulate style, principally Southern gospel and MOR ~ Bil Carpenter, All Music Guide

Back when rock & roll burst out of roadhouses and clubs on the wrong side of town and onto the airwaves, the saxophone was every bit as important as the guitar, piano, or drums in defining the sound — a few players, like Rudy Pompili, did emerge as stars in their own right, with serious audiences and a lot of name recognition; others, like Jimmy Wright, the reedman and bandleader in residence for George Goldner’s various labels, deserved stardom but never got it

One of the finest R&B vocal groups of the ’50s, the Philadelphia-based Lee Andrews & the Hearts specialized in smooth ballads and were influenced by similar vocal acts like the Moonglows, the Orioles, the Drifters, the 5 Royales, the Five Keys, the Midnighters, and the Ravens, while lead vocalist Lee Andrews’ influences were mostly solo artists like Bing Crosby, Frankie Laine, Frank Sinatra, and especially Nat King Cole

Lee Andrews & the Hearts Biography, Photos, Pictures

Specializing in smooth ballads, this Philadelphia R&B vocal quintet notched three hits in 1957-1958 Andrews formed The Hearts in 1953, and they debuted the next year on the Rainbow label

Ironic, but H Lee Atwater, a conservative Republican who worked on the campaigns of Ronald Reagan and George Bush (managing the latter’s 1988 presidential campaign) and is credited with supplying the platform with buzz phrases like “welfare queens,” “evil empire,” and Willie Horton, was a Southern soul and blues-loving musician who was once offered a gig (after he had graduated from high school) with Lee Dorsey’s (“Working in a Coal Mine”) touring revue

Lee Brown was an Arkansas blues piano player who recorded 29 tracks for Decca Records between 1937 and 1940, followed by a single session that yielded two additional sides in 1946

Lee Charles Nealy made a handful of records in the late ’60s/early ’70s The Chicago-based singer debuted on Dakar Records in 1967 with Karl Tarleton’s “It’s All Over Between Us,” which, like most of Charles’ recordings, is best classified as uptown Southern

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