Formed in February 1978, this three-piece all-girl band hailed from Cambridge and played a blend of new mod-angled pop with an overlay of Ronettes/Marvelettes vocal…
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Born in January 1946 and raised in rural Tennessee, Dolly Parton’s vocal talents were evident early on – at 12, she was a regular on…
The Dominoes (also known as Billy Ward & the Dominoes) had one of the finest musical pedigrees of any R&B vocal group of the 1940s. …
Don and The Goodtimes emerged from the Pacific Northwest and were spotted by Dick Clark who made them regulars on Where The Action Is where the…
Born Donald Randolph in South Carolina in 1938, Don Covay moved to Washington in the early fifties where he performed with his family’s gospel group,…
Don McLean was born into a comfortable suburban home in New Rochelle, New York. When Buddy Holly died in a plane crash in February 1959, McLean was…
This 1960s girl group formed in Hamtramck, Michigan, and they recorded the song Devil in His Heart for Detroit’s Correc-tone Records in 1961. In August…
Donna Loren was born Donna Zukor in Boston, Massachusetts, on 7 March 1947. She grew up in the Los Angeles neighbourhood of Mar Vista, with…
Donna Summer was born LaDonna Adrian Gaines on 31 December 1948 in the Dorchester community of Boston. One of seven children raised by devout Christian parents, Donna…
The Donnas formed in May 1993, when all four members were still in the eighth grade together in Palo Alto, California. Calling themselves Ragady Anne…
American soul singer was born in New Orleans on 25 May 1936, moving with his family to Buffalo, New York, aged three. An athlete in…
Donny Hathaway was born in Chicago on 1 October 1945 but was raised in St Louis by his grandmother, gospel singer Martha Pitts. He was singing…
Few can make the claim that they grew up in the public eye as truthfully as Donny Osmond can. He has been performing since he was…
Donovan Phillips Leitch was born in Glasgow in May 1946 and moved to Hatfield in Hertfordshire when he was ten. By 1964 he was living…
The Doobie Brothers formed in San Jose, California in 1970, from the remnants of a band called Pud. The original line-up comprised Tom Johnston (vocals/guitar),…
The group began in Ilford, Essex, in the late 1960s as The Dooley Family, and comprised brothers Jim, John and Frank and their sisters Marie, Anne and Kathy.…
Writer/singer Jim Morrison and keyboard player Ray Manzarek met at the UCLA film school and decided to form a band. Recruiting drummer John Densmore and…
Born Doris Elaine Higginsen in the Bronx, she later took her grandmother’s name and grew up as Doris Payne. Her parents disapproved of “subversive” forms…
Dorothy Squires was born Edna May Squires in Pontyberem, Carmarthenshire (South Wales) on 25 March 1915. She began to perform professionally as a singer at…
Dorris Henderson arrived in Britain in 1965 from Los Angeles, though she was originally from Florida. She arrived with credentials, not seriously folkie, yet serious…