The 84-year-old soul stalwart has survived alcoholism, segregation, a dramatic mid-career trough, and a relationship in which ...
Yet it was also a time in which she and fellow artists such as Sam Cooke and Lou Rawls were forced to travel in “caravans” of vehicles for strength in numbers, parking up for the night in ...
Just 27-years-old when he died, on the brink of super- stardom, Texas-born, LA-raised Belvin had been dubbed a “sepia Sinatra” – destined to be bigger than Sam Cooke – Nat Cole ... One of many eminent ...