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Houston's Fifth
Ward has produced some of the best blues in the world. Gloria Edwards
lived in Fifth ward hood with neighbors like the Crusaders, Joe
Sample, Calvin Owens and Trudy Lynn. Growing up all around music,
Gloria got her start singing gospel at New Pleasant Grove Baptist
Church and listening to her mother sing the blues with Big Walter
Price downstairs from her grandmother's house at the Red Rooster
Club, it was fate that Miss Firecracker would be playing in bands
with Clifton Chenier, Johnny Clyde Copeland, & Joe Hughes. Soon
afterwards, she started recording under her own name for King Records
and Crazy Cajun, where Huey Meaux produced her. Now, with more than
forty years of singing she is currently recording and performing
with Calvin Owens and with The New Jack Hippies.
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The lady of
the blues is from Natchitoches La. After moving to Beaumont TX,
Miss Candy started playing with George Daughtery and the blues and
zydico Rollers. Her first recording was with Roscoe Chenier. She
has always been self-taught in singing and in the music business.
After producing couple of own cds, she is now playing and recording
with Tom" The Blues Man" Hunter and the Hurricane.
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From Austin
Texas, Glenda started singing at the age of 3 in her uncle, Rev.
Mac Robinson's Church in Georgetown TX. Her dad, Matthew Robinson,
Sr. came from a big family of Ministers and sang with the Royal
Light Humphries. Glenda's step-dad sang and played bass with the
Bells of Joy. Her mother sang in programs in and around Texas and
wrote the song "There is a Bright Side Some Where" and gave it to
the Mighty Clouds of Joy to record on their album. Glenda started
singing in gospel bands, but when she saw her brother play on stage
singing the blues, she knew what she wanted to do with her future.
She is now been gigging for man y years and playing with her brother
Matthew Robinson and has recorded with him on his last cd.
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Miss Soul Situation
is the singer of singers. Miss Lavelle White born in Louisiana moved
to Houston TX at an early age and immediately started recording
for Duke Records 1958 1964. Writing her own songs and for other
artists like Bobby Bland (Lead Me On). Her first band was with Sweets
and Clarence Hollimon. She played later in a bands with Albert Collins
and Guitar Slim. Lately, she has recordings with Antone's Records.
Lavelle has shared the stage with such artist as the Isley Brother,
Aretha Franklin, Sam Cook and James Brown.
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