Loleatta Holloway

Biography

5 November 1946, Chicago, Illinois, USA. With her full-bodied gospelized vocals, which lent tremendous energy to her disco recordings, Holloway, as one of the leading disco divas, epitomized like no other singer of her day the transition of African-American popular music from soul to disco in the late 70s. She started in the church singing gospel, and sang with the famed Caravans from 1967-71. She was first recorded by her manager/husband Floyd Smith in Chicago on his Apache label, releasing... Read more

Genres

Dance Disco Funk Jazz Pop / Rock R&B / Soul

Tags

disco

soul

house

dance

funk

70s

female vocalists

club

chicago

80s

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