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Betty Wright

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Bessie Regina Norris, better known by her stage name, Betty Wright (born December 21, 1953), is an American soul and R&B singer and songwriter, who rose to fame in the 1970s with hits such as "Clean Up Woman" and "Tonight is the Night". [1]

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Ace Hood

Antoine McColister (born May 11, 1988), better known by his stage name Ace Hood, is an American rapper.

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Afrika Bambaataa

Afrika Bambaataa (born Lance Taylor; April 17, 1957) is an American disc jockey, singer, songwriter and producer from the South Bronx, New York.

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Alice Cooper

Alice Cooper (born Vincent Damon Furnier; February 4, 1948) is an American singer, songwriter, and actor whose career spans over fifty years.

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Allen Toussaint

Allen Toussaint (January 14, 1938 – November 10, 2015) was an American musician, songwriter, arranger and record producer, who was an influential figure in New Orleans R&B from the 1950s to the end of the century, described as "one of popular music’s great backroom figures."Richard Williams,, The Guardian, November 11, 2015.

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Alston Records

Alston Records was an American record label founded by Henry Stone and Steve Alaimo in 1964 that went bankrupt in 1981.

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Angie Stone

Angie Stone (born Angela Laverne Brown; December 18, 1961) is an American recording artist, producer, and actress.

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BBC Two

BBC Two is the second flagship television channel of the British Broadcasting Corporation in the United Kingdom, Isle of Man and Channel Islands.

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Betty Wright: The Movie

Betty Wright: The Movie is a musical album, a collaboration by singer Betty Wright and The Roots.

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Beyoncé

Beyoncé Giselle Knowles-Carter (born September 4, 1981) is an American singer, songwriter, dancer, actress, and businesswoman.

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Big Sean

Sean Michael Leonard Anderson (born March 25, 1988), known professionally as Big Sean, is an American rapper.

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Billboard Hot 100

The Billboard Hot 100 is the music industry standard record chart in the United States for songs, published weekly by Billboard magazine.

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Blowfly (musician)

Clarence Henry Reid (February 14, 1939 – January 17, 2016) was an American musician, songwriter and producer, also known by the stage name and alternate persona Blowfly.

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Bob Marley

Robert Nesta Marley, OM (6 February 1945 – 11 May 1981) was a Jamaican singer-songwriter who became an international musical and cultural icon, blending mostly reggae, ska, and rocksteady in his compositions.

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Bruce Springsteen

Bruce Frederick Joseph Springsteen (born September 23, 1949) is an American singer-songwriter and musician, known for his work with the E Street Band.

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Carla Thomas

Carla Venita Thomas (born December 21, 1942) is an American singer, who is often referred to as the Queen of Memphis Soul.

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Champaign (band)

Champaign was a 1980s American R&B band best known for their 1981 hit, "How 'Bout Us".

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Chance the Rapper

Chancelor Jonathan Bennett (born April 16, 1993), known professionally as Chance the Rapper, is an American rapper, singer, songwriter, actor, record producer, and philanthropist from the West Chatham neighborhood of Chicago, Illinois.

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Clean Up Woman

"Clean Up Woman" is a song by Betty Wright from her second studio album, I Love the Way You Love (1972).

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Color Me Badd

Color Me Badd is an American contemporary R&B group that was formed in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.

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Coming Out of the Dark

"Coming Out of the Dark" is a single by American singer and songwriter Gloria Estefan.

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Compilation album

A compilation album comprises tracks, either previously released or unreleased, usually from several separate recordings by either one or several performers.

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Dance Club Songs

The Dance Club Songs chart is a weekly chart published exclusively by Billboard in the United States.

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Danity Kane

Danity Kane was an American girl group comprising members Aubrey O'Day, Wanita "D. Woods" Woodgett, Shannon Bex, Dawn Richard and Aundrea Fimbres.

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Diane Birch

Diane Birch (born January 24, 1983) is an American singer-songwriter.

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Disco

Disco is a musical style that emerged in the mid 1960s and early 1970s from America's urban nightlife scene, where it originated in house parties and makeshift discothèques, reaching its peak popularity between the mid-1970s and early 1980s.

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Distant Lover

"Distant Lover" is the sixth song issued on singer Marvin Gaye's 1973 album, Let's Get It On and the b-side of the second single from that album, "Come Get to This." A live recording was issued as a single in 1974.

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DJ Khaled

Khaled Mohamed Khaled (born November 26, 1975) is an American record producer, radio personality, DJ, record label executive and author.

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Epic Records

Epic Records is an American record label owned by Sony Music Entertainment, a subsidiary of Sony Corporation of America, Inc., the North American division of Japanese conglomerate Sony.

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George McCrae

George Warren McCrae, Jr. (born October 19, 1944) is an American soul and disco singer, most famous for his 1974 hit "Rock Your Baby".

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Girls Can't Do What the Guys Do

"Girls Can't Do What the Guys Do" is a single by American recording artist Betty Wright from her debut studio album My First Time Around (1968).

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Gloria Estefan

Gloria Estefan (née Fajardo; born September 1, 1957) is a Cuban-American singer, songwriter, actress, and businesswoman.

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Gospel music

Gospel music is a genre of Christian music.

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Grammy Award

A Grammy Award (stylized as GRAMMY, originally called Gramophone Award), or Grammy, is an award presented by The Recording Academy to recognize achievement in the music industry.

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Grayson Hugh

Grayson Hugh (born October 30, 1960) is an American singer-songwriter, pianist, Hammond B3 organ player and composer.

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Gwen McCrae

Gwen McCrae (née Mosley, December 21, 1943, Pensacola, Florida, United States) is an American singer, best known for her 1975 hit "Rockin' Chair".

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Harry Wayne Casey

Harry Wayne Casey (born January 31, 1951), better known by his stage name K.C., is an American musician, singer, songwriter and record producer.

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Henry Stone

Henry Stone (June 3, 1921 – August 7, 2014), born Henry David Epstein, was an American record company executive and producer whose career spanned the era from R&B in the early 1950s through the disco boom of the 1970s to the 2010s.

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Hip hop music

Hip hop music, also called hip-hopMerriam-Webster Dictionary entry on hip-hop, retrieved from: A subculture especially of inner-city black youths who are typically devotees of rap music; the stylized rhythmic music that commonly accompanies rap; also rap together with this music.

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Holy Key

"Holy Key" is a single by American musician DJ Khaled, featuring American rappers Big Sean, Kendrick Lamar and American singer Betty Wright.

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Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs

The Hot R&B/Hip-Hop/Rap Songs is a record chart that ranks the most popular R&B and hip hop songs in the United States and is published weekly by Billboard.

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How 'Bout Us

How Bout Us is the debut studio album by American rhythm and blues group Champaign, released in 1981 via Columbia Records.

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I Wanna Sex You Up

"I Wanna Sex You Up" is a song recorded by American group Color Me Badd.

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Jennifer Lopez

Jennifer Lynn Lopez (born July 24, 1969) is an American singer, actress, dancer and producer.

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Jools Holland

Julian Miles "Jools" Holland, OBE, DL (born 24 January 1958) is an English pianist, bandleader, singer, composer and television presenter.

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Jools' Annual Hootenanny

Hootenanny is an annual show presented by Jools Holland and broadcast on New Year's Eve as an end of year special of his television series Later... with Jools Holland.

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Joss Stone

Joscelyn Eve Stoker (born 11 April 1987), better known by her stage name Joss Stone, is an English singer, songwriter and actress.

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Kendrick Lamar

Kendrick Lamar Duckworth (born June 17, 1987) is an American rapper, singer, songwriter, and record producer.

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Lenny Williams

Leonard Charles Williams (born February 16, 1945) is an American singer-songwriter and musician, best known for his work during the 1970s.

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Lil Wayne

Dwayne Michael Carter Jr. (born September 27, 1982), known professionally as Lil Wayne, is an American rapper.

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List of signature songs

A signature song is the one song (or, in some cases, one of a few songs) that a popular and well-established recording artist or band is most closely identified with or best known for, even if they have had success with a variety of other songs.

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Lola (singer)

Lola (born 1981 in Paris, France) is a Brooklyn, New York- female singer/songwriter.

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Lovin' Is Really My Game

"Lovin' is Really My Game" is a 1977 song by American group Brainstorm, and is the lead single from their debut album Stormin'.

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Major Key (album)

Major Key (stylized as Major 🔑) is the ninth studio album by American musician DJ Khaled.

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Making the Band

Making the Band was an ABC/MTV reality television series that exists in separate iterations, each iteration focusing on a specific music act.

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Marlon Jackson

Marlon David Jackson (born March 12, 1957) is an American entertainer, singer, and dancer.

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Marvin Gaye

Marvin Gaye (born Marvin Pentz Gay Jr.; April 2, 1939 – April 1, 1984) was an American singer, songwriter and record producer.

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Mary J. Blige

Mary Jane Blige (born January 11, 1971) is an American singer, songwriter, rapper and actress.

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Miami

Miami is a major port city on the Atlantic coast of south Florida in the southeastern United States.

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Mind Body & Soul

Mind Body & Soul is the second studio album by English singer and songwriter Joss Stone, released on 15 September 2004 by S-Curve Records.

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My First Time Around

My First Time Around is the 1968 debut LP by Betty Wright.

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Peter Brown (singer)

Peter Brown (born July 11, 1953, in Blue Island, Illinois) is an American singer-songwriter and record producer.

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Questlove

Ahmir Khalib Thompson (born January 20, 1971), known professionally as Questlove (stylized as ?uestlove), is an American percussionist, multi-instrumentalist, DJ, music journalist, record producer, and occasional actor.

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Record producer

A record producer or track producer or music producer oversees and manages the sound recording and production of a band or performer's music, which may range from recording one song to recording a lengthy concept album.

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Recording Industry Association of America

The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) is a trade organization that represents the recording industry in the United States.

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Rhythm and blues

Rhythm and blues, commonly abbreviated as R&B, is a genre of popular music that originated in African American communities in the 1940s.

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Richard "Dimples" Fields

Richard "Dimples" Fields (March 21, 1942 – January 12, 2000) - accessed April 2011.

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Richard Finch (musician)

Richard Raymond Finch (born January 23, 1954) is an American composer, producer, engineer, and song arranger.

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Rock music

Rock music is a broad genre of popular music that originated as "rock and roll" in the United States in the early 1950s, and developed into a range of different styles in the 1960s and later, particularly in the United Kingdom and in the United States.

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S-Curve Records

S-Curve Records was founded in 2000 by former Mercury Records executive Steve Greenberg.

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Sampling (music)

In music, sampling is the act of taking a portion, or sample, of one sound recording and reusing it as an instrument or a sound recording in a different song or piece.

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Sean Combs

Sean John Combs (born November 4, 1969), also known by his stage names Puff Daddy, Puffy, P. Diddy, Diddy, Love and Brother Love is an American rapper, singer, songwriter, actor, record producer, and entrepreneur.

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Shock rock

Shock rock is an umbrella term for artists who combine rock music or metal with highly theatrical live performances emphasizing shock value.

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Snoop Dogg

Calvin Cordozar Broadus Jr. (born October 20, 1971), known professionally as Snoop Dogg, is an American rapper, singer, songwriter, record producer, television personality and actor.

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Soul music

Soul music (often referred to simply as soul) is a popular music genre that originated in the African American community in the United States in the late 1950s and early 1960s.

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Steve Greenberg (record producer)

Steve Greenberg is an American record producer currently heading the S-Curve Records label.

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Stevie Wonder

Stevland Hardaway Morris (né Judkins; born May 13, 1950), known by his stage name Stevie Wonder, is an American singer, songwriter, record producer, and multi-instrumentalist.

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Sublime (band)

Sublime was an American ska punk band from Long Beach, California, formed in 1988.

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Survival Tour

The Survival Tour was a concert tour organised to support the album Survival by Bob Marley & The Wailers.

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SWV

Sisters With Voices, better known as SWV, is an American female R&B vocal trio from New York City, New York.

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The Roots

The Roots is an American hip hop band, formed in 1987 by Tariq "Black Thought" Trotter and Ahmir "Questlove" Thompson in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States.

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Tom Jones (singer)

Sir Thomas John Woodward (born 7 June 1940), also known by his stage name Tom Jones, is a Welsh singer.

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UK Singles Chart

The UK Singles Chart (currently entitled Official Singles Chart) is compiled by the Official Charts Company (OCC), on behalf of the British record industry, listing the top-selling singles in the United Kingdom, based upon physical sales, paid-for downloads and streaming.

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Upgrade U

"Upgrade U" is a song by American singer and songwriter Beyoncé from her second studio album B'Day (2006).

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Whistle register

The whistle register (also called the flute register or whistle tone) is the highest register of the human voice, lying above the modal register and falsetto register.

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[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betty_Wright

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