Loleatta Holloway
- MatchLoleatta Holloway
- 100%First Choice
- 96%The Salsoul Orchestra
- 53%Instant Funk
- 52%Inner Life
- 47%Skyy
- 44%Melba Moore
- 43%Sister Sledge
- 43%Sylvester
- 42%Double Exposure
- 41%Change
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