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Sugar Pie DeSanto – A Little Taste of Soul
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1. Sugar Pie DeSanto is the name of a popular rhythm and blues songstress of the 1950’s and 1960’s. She was born Umpeylia Marsema Balinton in Brooklyn, New York on October 16, 1935 to an African American mom and a Filipino dad. She spent most of her early life in San Francisco, California, where she moved with her family at a young age.
In 1955, DeSanto did some touring with The Johnny Otis Revue after being given the nickname Sugar Pie by the bandleader. In 1960, DeSanto rose to national prominence when her single, “
I Want to Know,” rose to number four on Billboard’s Hot R&B Sides chart.
DeSanto continued to write & release popular songs throughout the 1960’s, including some collaborations with Etta James.
From 1959-1960, she toured with The James Brown Revue, where she was known to perform backflips on stage. DeSanto is proud to say, despite numerous proposistions, she stayed professional, and claims to be the only woman in his revue who never slept with the lascivious Brown, nor any of the other “old goats” like Willie Dixon, and Muddy Waters she met on the met on the blues touring circuit while supporting her Chess recordings. Sugar Pie went along on the 1964 Folk-Blues Fest tour of Europe, but as the only female artist, and basically an opening act… She also let the other musicians on that run she wasn’t part of the backstage buffet, telling the SF Bay Guardian in 2004 “I refused all them old goats,”
She cut 30 sides for Chess records, most of which were shelved and never hit the streets.
In 1955, DeSanto did some touring with The Johnny Otis Revue after being given the nickname Sugar Pie by the bandleader. In 1960, DeSanto rose to national prominence when her single, “
I Want to Know,” rose to number four on Billboard’s Hot R&B Sides chart.
DeSanto continued to write & release popular songs throughout the 1960’s, including some collaborations with Etta James. From 1959-1960, she toured with The James Brown Revue, where she was known to perform backflips on stage. DeSanto is proud to say, despite numerous proposistions, she stayed professional, and claims to be the only woman in his revue who never slept with the lascivious Brown, nor any of the other “old goats” like Willie Dixon, and Muddy Waters she met on the met on the blues touring circuit while supporting her Chess recordings. Sugar Pie went along on the 1964 Folk-Blues Fest tour of Europe, but as the only female artist, and basically an opening act… She also let the other musicians on that run she wasn’t part of the backstage buffet, telling the SF Bay Guardian in 2004 “I refused all them old goats,”
She cut 30 sides for Chess records, most of which were shelved and never hit the streets.
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