Edwin Starr ~ Similar Artists

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Rufus Thomas - 100% match to Edwin Starr

26 March 1917, Cayce, Mississippi, USA, d. 15 December 2001, Memphis, Tennessee, USA. A singer, dancer and entertainer, Thomas learned his trade as a member of the Rabbit Foot Minstrels, a vaudeville-inspired touring group. By the late 40s he was performing in several Memphis... Read more

Jimmy Ruffin - 77% match to Edwin Starr

7 May 1939, Collinsville, Mississippi, USA. The son of a minister, Ruffin was born into a musical family: his brother, David Ruffin, and cousin, Melvin Franklin, both became mainstays of the Temptations. Ruffin abandoned his gospel background to become a session singer in the... Read more

The Four Tops - 77% match to Edwin Starr

Levi Stubbs (6 June 1936, Detroit, Michigan, USA), Renaldo "Obie" Benson (b. 14 June 1936, Detroit, Michigan, USA, d. 1 July 2005, Detroit, Michigan, USA), Lawrence Payton (b. 2 June 1938, Detroit, Michigan, USA, d. 10 June 1997, USA) and Abdul "Duke" Fakir (b. 26 December 1935,... Read more

The Temptations - 69% match to Edwin Starr

Jackie Wilson - 67% match to Edwin Starr

Jack Leroy Wilson, 9 June 1934, Detroit, Michigan, USA, d. 21 January 1984, Mount Holly, New Jersey, USA. When parental pressure thwarted his boxing ambitions, Wilson took to singing in small local clubs. He sang with the Thrillers (a predecessor group to the Royals) and... Read more

The Isley Brothers - 67% match to Edwin Starr

Three brothers, O'Kelly (25 December 1937, d. 31 March 1986), Rudolph (b. 1 April 1939) and Ronald Isley (b. 21 May 1941), began singing gospel in their home-town of Cincinnati, USA, in the early 50s, accompanied by their brother Vernon, who died in a car crash around 1957.... Read more

Marvin Gaye - 66% match to Edwin Starr

Marvin Pentz Gay Jnr., 2 April 1939, Washington, DC, USA, d. 1 April 1984, Los Angeles, California, USA. Gaye was named after his father, a minister in the Apostolic Church. The spiritual influence of his early years played a formative role in his musical career, particularly... Read more

Gladys Knight & The Pips - 63% match to Edwin Starr

The Spinners - 63% match to Edwin Starr

Formed in 1954 at Ferndale High School, near Detroit, Michigan, USA, and originally known as the Domingoes, Henry Fambrough (10 May 1935, Detroit, Michigan, USA, some sources cite 1938), Robert "Bobby" Smith (b. 10 April 1937, Detroit, Michigan, USA), Billy Henderson (b. 9... Read more

Stevie Wonder - 62% match to Edwin Starr

Steveland Judkins, 13 May 1950, Saginaw, Michigan, USA. Born Judkins, Wonder now prefers to be known as Steveland Morris after his mother's married name. He was born with rerolental fibroplasia, a disease of the eyes that affects prematurely born babies. This caused permanent... Read more