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This Reggie Jones, not to be confused with several others in the music business including a tubaist and bassist from the New Orleans jazz scene, is one of several technicians credited on a 2003 live gospel recording by Judith Christie McAllister
Reggie Lucas was a jazz guitarist at one time, but he enjoyed far more popularity and exposure as half of a songwriting and production team Lucas played with Miles Davis and Norman Connors in the early ’70s and met percussionist Mtume while touring with Davis
Regina Belle emerged as a prolific, consistently engaging vocalist on the urban contemporary scene Born in New Jersey, Belle’s early experience was in gospel, though she was also attracted to R&B during her childhood
Growing up in Bessemer, AL, the young Reginald Jones struggled with the toy guitar his parents had given him for Christmas At the age of 12 he prayed, “Lord if you teach me how to play this guitar I will play it for you the rest of my life to draw people to you
While there is always the remote possibility that Reginald Wizard Jones keeps a supply of items such as eye of newt, it is more likely that his nickname is a result of studio genius and the mastery of an entire combo’s worth of instruments as well as the electronic gadgetry developed as a creative substitute since the early-’90s MIDI fad
Los Angeles native Renee “Ren” Woods, born January 1, 1958, probably performed for candies as a toddler The child singing prodigy first major appearance was when she was 10 years old, she sung on NBC’s Soul Special, a television show that aired in 1968
Soul vocalist Rena Scott has traveled throughout the US and Europe performing alongside R&B’s and jazz’s most reputable acts, including the Temptations, Natalie Cole, and Aretha Franklin, and yet her career successes stemmed more from doing commercial jingles for Levi and Sunny Delight in addition to serving as the national spokesperson for Harvey’s Bristol Cream wines
René & Angela are an early-’80s soul duo from Los Angeles Before forming in 1977, René Moore — the brother of Rufus’ Bobby Watson — played with the Brothers Johnson; Angela Winbush had sung backup vocals for Dolly Parton, Lenny Williams, and Jean Carn
While she’s by no means a straight-ahead blues artist, vocalist and songwriter Reneé Austin has great potential to bring many new fans to the idiom Attractive, intelligent, and a good showperson, Austin was born in San Diego and raised in Texas, growing up steeped in Texas roadhouse blues and soul-blues, as well as gospel music
Restine Jackson has devoted his entire life to music and God, developing a career for himself as a national gospel artist while still in his early 20s The Detroit native first began playing piano in his father’s church when he was only four years old