Occupation – Entertainment – Musical Group
Niggaz Wit Attitudes (NWA) (1987-1991)
Niggaz Wit Attitudes, also known as NWA, is a West Coast Hip-Hop group who became one of the most influential...
The Isley Brothers (1957-1984)
The Isley Brothers were a band on the Billboard Top 40 charts for fifty years. Their ability to synthesize R&B, soul, funk,...
The Delfonics (1966-1975)
The Delfonics, an R&B vocal band whose founding members were William “Poogie” Hart, Wilbert Hart, Randy Cain, Ritchie Daniels, and...
Lionel Richie and the Commodores (1967- )
The Commodores were a rhythm and blues/ funk group popular throughout the 1970s and 1980s and one of the most...
Kool and the Gang (1964- )
In 1964, seven friends from Jersey City, New Jersey, including Robert “Kool” Bell on bass and his brother Ronald Bell...
The Coasters (1955- )
The Coasters began on September 28, 1955, in Los Angeles, California after four of six members from another singing group,...
Hank Ballard and the Midnighters (1950-1965); (Hank Ballard 1927-2003)
Hank Ballard and the Midnighters was a rhythm and blues band that were a major influence on the rock and...
The Platters (1953- )
The Platters was one of the most successful rhythm and blues vocal groups during the rock and roll era. They...
Frankie Lymon and The Teenagers (1954-1957)
Frankie Lymon and the Teenagers began in 1954 as a singing group founded at Edward W. Stitt Junior High School in the Washington...
