We’ve lost another great. Virginia-born Soul singer / songwriter Bill Withers died in Los Angeles on March 30th as a result of heart complications. He was 81.
Tag Archives | Eric B & Rakim
Chuck Brown
By Greg Wilson on May 18, 2012 in Black Culture, DJ / Club Culture, Hear, RIP, The Eighties, The Seventies
Only just heard that a third black music icon died this week – Chuck Brown, the Godfather of Go-Go, the Washington DC Funk style that came to prominence during the ’80s, and which, for a short time, stood alongside the newly emerging Hip Hop genre at the cutting edge of black music.
Recent Comments