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Art Neville

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Septuagenarian keyboardist & vocalist Art Neville aka "Poppa Funk" is an R&B legend from New Orleans, who founded the Hawkettes and had a solo career on Specialty records in the late 1950's before becoming a founding member of influential funk & soul group The Meters in the late 1960's.

Al Green

6,161,994 plays (566,556 listeners)

Reverend Al Green (b. 13 April 1946 in Forrest City, Arkansas) is an American gospel and soul singer who enjoyed great popularity in the early- and mid-1970s. "Let's Stay Together" and "Tired of Being Alone" were two of his biggest hits.

Luther Vandross

1,487,417 plays (229,024 listeners)

Luther Ronzoni Vandross (April 20, 1951 - July 1, 2005) was an American R&B singer. A formidable soul artist whose career spanned four decades- 70's (as backing singer to David Bowie's Young Americans) and Chic, as well as his own explosion on the decades music with "Superstar, A House is not a Home".

Allen Toussaint

222,038 plays (29,109 listeners)

Allen Toussaint (born January 14, 1938) is an American musician, songwriter and record producer and one of the most influential figures in New Orleans R&B who was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1998.

Percy Sledge

559,375 plays (141,650 listeners)

Percy Sledge (born 25 November 1941 in Leighton, Alabama) is a US-American R&B and soul performer.

Irma Thomas

341,023 plays (68,656 listeners)

Irma Thomas (b. February 18, 1941, Ponchatoula, Louisiana) who's only national chart hit in a 50 year career is 1963's "Wish Someone Would Care", is an enduring, Grammy winning, soul, gospel, rhythm and blues singer from New Orleans.

Dr. John

918,652 plays (129,340 listeners)

There are at least two bands/artists with the name (band name) Dr. John. (1) Malcolm John "Mac" Rebennack, Jr. (born November 21, 1940), better known by the stage name Dr. John (also Dr. John Creaux), is an American singer-songwriter, pianist and guitarist whose music combines blues, boogie woogie and rock and roll.

Lou Rawls

500,452 plays (115,593 listeners)

Louis Allen Rawls (December 1, 1933 – January 6, 2006) was an American soul music, jazz, and blues singer. He was known for his smooth vocal style: Frank Sinatra once said that Rawls had "the classiest singing and silkiest chops in the singing game".