Soulful Divas

Lorraine Ellison is almost a perfect cult soul singer: she was blessed with a unique, powerful voice, she had two stone-cold classics to her...

Singer Lurlean Hunter made five albums on her own during the second half of the '50s, starting out as a Lonesome Gal on RCA and winding ...

During the mid-'60s, singer Lynne Randell reigned as Australia's first teen pop star. Dubbed "Little Miss Mod" for her tre...

America's loss is France's gain. Nancy Holloway migrated to France primarily because of a sour, premature marriage and has remained ...

Generally considered one of the most influential Gospel singers of all time, Marion Williams sung with a full-body growl so intense that any...

It was the British supermodel Twiggy who alerted Paul McCartney to the Welsh singer Mary Hopkin when Apple Records was looking for talent in...

This is just to let you know, once and for all, that if you want the music from the playlist on this page to stop - to be able to listen to ...

Wonderful work from Madeline Bell, a great singer with a sound that's equal parts American soul and British '60s female pop. The rec...

The popular appraisal of Lesley Gore is that she sang teen soap opera songs that never pulled their substance much above puppy love, and whi...

Jazz Patterns, de debut album from obscure Chicagoan jazz singer Patricia "Pat" Thomas, is a pretty hip collection of jazz vocal n...