Evelyn "Champagne" King ~ Similar Artists
The Whispers
- 100% match to Evelyn "Champagne" King
Formed in the Watts section of Los Angeles, California, USA in 1964, soul group the Whispers were originally comprised of Nicholas Caldwell (5 April 1944, Loma Linda, California, USA), twin brothers Wallace and Walter Scott (b. 23 September 1943, Fort Worth, Texas, USA), Marcus...
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Shalamar
- 98% match to Evelyn "Champagne" King
This act was created by Dick Griffey, booking agent for US television's Soul Train show, and Simon Soussan, a veteran of UK's northern soul scene. The latter produced "Uptown Festival", a medley of popular Motown Records favourites, which was issued on Griffey's Solar label....
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Chic
- 91% match to Evelyn "Champagne" King
Probably the band of the disco generation, Chic was built around Nile Rodgers (19 September 1952, New York, USA; guitar) and Bernard Edwards (b. 31 October 1952, Greenville, North Carolina, USA, d. 18 April 1996, Tokyo, Japan; bass). During the 60s Rodgers had played in a rock...
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D Train
- 91% match to Evelyn "Champagne" King
This US soul group was formed in a Brooklyn, New York, USA high school in the early 80s by Hubert Eaves III (keyboards) and James Williams (lead vocals). Having signed to the Epic/Prelude label, they found greater success in the UK than in their home country. They enjoyed three...
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Sister Sledge
- 85% match to Evelyn "Champagne" King
Debra (9 July 1954), Joan (b. 13 September 1956), Kim (b. 21 August 1957) and Kathy Sledge (b. 6 January 1959) were all born and raised in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA. They started their recording career on the Money Back label with 1971's "Time Will Tell". A short time...
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Teena Marie
- 84% match to Evelyn "Champagne" King
Mary Christine Brockert, 5 March 1957, Santa Monica, California, USA. A singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, arranger and producer, Teena Marie is rightly fêted as one of the few white artists to sustain a consistent career in the US soul market. Spotted by Motown...
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Change
- 83% match to Evelyn "Champagne" King
Although the group was led by Paolo Granolio (guitar) and David Romani (bass), this was ostensibly a studio creation by producers Jacques Fred Petrus and Mauro Malavasi, who first linked to form Goody Music in 1975. With material recorded in Bologna (where the producers' own...
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Stephanie Mills
- 81% match to Evelyn "Champagne" King
22 March 1957, Brooklyn, New York, USA. Mills found early fame at the age of nine, winning an influential talent show at Harlem's famous Apollo Theatre for six weeks running. Soon afterwards, she appeared on Broadway in the play Maggie Flynn. She toured with the Isley Brothers,...
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Cheryl Lynn
- 79% match to Evelyn "Champagne" King
Cheryl Lynn Smith, 11 March 1957, Los Angeles, California, USA. The full-throated Lynn became a hit-maker at the height of disco's popularity, singing dance tunes that retained the gospel vocal approach of classic soul. Lynn grew up in the church where her mother was a minister...
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Rose Royce
- 78% match to Evelyn "Champagne" King
Formed in the USA as a multi-purpose backing group, the original nine-piece worked under a variety of names. In 1973 Kenji Brown (guitar), Victor Nix (keyboards), Kenny Copeland, Freddie Dunn (trumpets), Michael Moore (saxophone), Lequient "Duke" Jobe (bass), Henry Garner and...
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