Al Wilson was born in Meridian, Mississippi, in June 1939 and sang in a church choir and his own gospel quartet before moving to San…
Browsing: Northern Soul
Brenda Holloway had one genuine rival in the Motown glamour stakes. The delectable Barbara McNair from Racine, Wisconsin, even went into the annals as the…
Blue-eyed soul singer Bobby Paris was born Roberto Pares to a Puerto Rican family and raised in New York City. He began singing with a…
Dobie Gray was born Lawrence Victor Ainsworth although this has been disputed and his name has also been listed as Leonard Victor Ainsworth and also…
Joyce Harris was born in Bowling Green, Kentucky in 1939 and moved to New Orleans with her family when she was 13 years old. Harris…
Kim Weston was born Agatha Natalie Weston on 30 December 1939, in Detroit, Michigan, and started singing in the church at the age of four.…
A musical movement born in the industrial North of England, the Northern Soul phenomenon grew out of club-goers’ passion for black American dance music. It…
Born Rosemarie Timotea Aurro (pronounced “Yuro”) in Chicago to Italian-American parents in 1940, Yuro moved with her family to Los Angeles in 1952. Signed by…
For eight years, if you were into Northern Soul, there was only one place you wanted to go: Wigan Casino. At 2.00 am on Sunday…