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In the ‘70s, THE CO-FOUNDER, co-producer, writer and guitarist of the pop soul group The Commodores, Thomas McClary's ambition was to form a group that would be heralded as “the black Beatles.” That thought danced in his head while in line to enroll at Tuskegee Institute in Alabama in 1968, when he heard a young man behind him whistling a song from jazz saxophonist Eddie Harris.Are you a musician?” McClary asked. “No, no” the young man said. They chatted a while, then agreed to meet at the house of the young man’s grandmother. “She lives across the street from the campus. “ I’ll have some guys you can choose from to put your band together.” The shy kid ended up making the cut, too. His name was Lionel Richie. At that moment, when Thomas met Lionel, the nucleus for one of the world’s most legendary musical Pop, R&B groups of the ‘70’s was formed. These two freshmen did not stop until they found William King, Milan Williams, Ronald LaPread, and last but certainly not lease, Walter Orange to complete the mission of putting a legendary Group together, the Commodores. The rest is history.

LOTLRADIO WELCOMES                                                            Dr. Jacqueline Del Rosario, America's Marriage Doctor, and learn how to cultivate and nourish a healthy marriage.She’s received keys to cities, multimillions in federal funding, and helped thousands! Dr. Jacqueline Del Rosario is “The How to lady.” She teaches people to have better marriages, live life better, and recapture lost visions .                                      Keys to the city of Opa Locka & Miami-Dade County, FL Over 20 million in federal funding Recognition from Governor Jeb Bush, President George W. Bush, and President Barack Obama for her work. Hundreds of successful studies after 20 years of marital counseling! CEO of Recapturing Your Vision and Best Marriage Keys.

TwinSpirit's eclectic flavor is a tasty blend of soul & jazz, Sprinkled with a hint of funk. Her sound is organic and the pictures it paints are filled with sincerity & strength as well as vulnerabilities and human-ness. Its been coined "Hypnotic Soul" which charismatically describes her artistic expression and vocal abilities. Since the first note was created, TwinSpirit's unique crowd capturing performance style and songwriting abilities were apparent. Originally from various parts of the US, TwinSpirit & her band of individually talented musicians all settled in Atlanta and as if by fate they were drawn together to form this collective. This young women is slowly but surely gaining attention. "TwinSpirit" was voted UK based SaveOurSoul Artist of the Year. She was also selected as a finalist in the Indie Music Awards 2006 & 2007. TwinSpirit most recently placed as a Finalist in Paris, France's Sankofa Soul Contest 2009. The newest addition to TwinSpirits list of passions is the creation of her mobile concert series:The SofA Series. Twinspirit says “We decided to create a space that finally allows performers to refocus their energy on their craft and put the "Art" back in Artist. A space that allows the listening audience to connect with the Artist & the music on deeper level. An intimate, cozy, comfortable space where creative energy is not only allowed but encouraged to FLOW........” With vocals so deeply hypnotic, they penetrate to the core of the soul of the listener. Her live performances are so honest and real that many have called it "a spiritual experience". TwinSpirit keeps her performance real with a raw edge. She sways from soulful poetic melodies to delivering deeply felt power vocals.  

  Born and raised in the beach 40 projects of Far Rockaway Queens in New York, Doc G has been entertaining fans all around the world for more than 15 years. As half the duo of P.M. Dawn, Doc G will resurrect the bliss. With new music from an all new solo album (THE PURR-SCRIPT-SHUN) and a P.M. Dawn live album ready to roll out, there is no stopping the Doc Of The Dawn!!! At the young age of five, Doc developed a passion for emulating other hip hop artists. He became a local celebrity performing music by legendary hip hop artists that included Run DMC, Sugar Hill Gang, and LL Cool J, just to name a few. As a teenager, Doc G would learn the art of freestyle and combine this newfound skill into his very entertaining and comical performances. His family would prove to be active in the music world as DJ’s and hip hop artists. Two of Doc’s cousins came together to form the highly successful group P.M. Dawn. In the early days of P.M. Dawn, Doc G was called upon to serve in the U.S. Navy. While Doc G was in the Navy, P.M. Dawn would reach world-wide success with “Set a drift on memory bliss.” After receiving a postcard from his mother about an attack on Prince Be from KRS One and Boogie Down Productions, he would reunite with his cousin and then joined the crew as the hype man (forfeiting his G.I. Bill). After a brief hiatus, Doc G would reform P.M. Dawn with his cousin, Prince Be.    

Appointed GOODWILL AMBASSADOR for the permanent memorial at the United Nations to honour the victims of slavery and the transatlantic slave trade * Won a Tony award for her show-stealing role in PURLIE * Replaced Diane Keaton in the lead role of the cult classic musical HAIR on Broadway * Became the first black actress to step into the lead role of Fantine in the acclaimed musical LES MISERABLES * Extensive discography of over 20 albums * Four time Grammy Nominated Artist with a string of Billboard charted hits, including “You Stepped Into My Life”, "Love's Comin At Ya", "Read My Lips", "Falling" * First female pop artist to do a non-operatic solo concert at New York City’s Metropolitan Opera House * Had her own variety show on television and made regular appearances on the Tonight Show with Johny Carson as well as the Flip Wilson Show * Starred with Beyonce and Cuba Gooding Jr. in the motion picture, “The Fighting Temptations” * Honored by Oprah Winfrey at Oprah's Legends Weekend * Most recent single, "Love Is" was #1 on the Billboard R&B Singles chart for 4 weeks     Grammy Nominated Singer SongwriterAARON CAMPER Aaron Camper his worked with Diddy-Dirty Money,Brandy, Kanye West,Jill Scott,Stevie Wonder,Patti Labelle, Jessica Simpson,The Clark Sisters,Tye Tribbett, Rob Thomas

Washington journalist Helena Andrews is a purveyor of all things awesome. HarperCollins published her first book, a memoir in essays entitled BITCH IS THE NEW BLACK, on June 1st, 2010. Grey’s Anatomy creator Shonda Rhimes has optioned the book as a feature film for Fox Searchlight Pictures. A former staff writer at Politico and New York Times Style Section contributor, Helena now writes a popular weekly column called “Single-Minded” on being “free, single and disengaged” for The Root, a division of The Washington Post. On December 10th, 2009 The Washington Post published a front-page profile of Helena that set the Interwebs on fire! The article, “Single Minded Success,” prompted responses from The Huffington Post, Jezebel and Racialicious among others. In it Helena explained why she wrote BITCH IS THE NEW BLACK: “What I’m trying to say about single black women [all women, really] is that you don’t know them as well as you think you do. They may not know themselves as well as they think they do.” She approaches single-hood with rare honesty and grit. Helena has appeared on ABC’s “Nightline,” CBS’s “Early Show,” CNN, XM Radio, NPR and NY1. She’s shared her unique take on everything pop culture from “The Real Housewives of Atlanta” (“totes cray cray”) to Disney’s “Princess and the Frog” (magical indoctrination) with millions of fans across the country.

Stellar Award winner, and evangelist .La Shun Pace stops bye to Debut Her Latest New single " Something to live for" From her upcoming Album "Reborn"  Available in stores June 28th...Pace first emerged during the mid-1970s, performing alongside her siblings in the group The Anointed Pace Sisters. Her singing and ministering skills were further honed while she toured with the Rev. Gene Martin and the Action Revival Team, and in 1988 she recorded In the House of the Lord with Dr. Jonathan Greer and the Cathedral of Faith Church of God & Christ Choirs for Savoy Records. The label signed Pace as a solo artist soon after, and in 1990 she issued her debut He Lives, which reached the number two spot on the Billboard gospel charts and featured her signature song "I Know I've Been Changed"; the follow-up, Shekinah Glory, appeared in 1993. Three years later, Pace returned with Wealthy Place; in addition to successive releases including 1998's Just Because God Said It, she also enjoyed a career as an actress, most notably co-starring as the Angel of Mercy in the 1992 Steve Martin film Leap pf Faith LaShun was inducted into the Christian Music Hall of Fame in 2007.

Since the runaway success of her 1990 debut album Circle of One (which went Platinum), and the impassioned hit single "Get Here" (the Brenda Russell composition that became an unofficial anthem of the 1991 Gulf War) Oleta Adams has inspired a growing legion of fans in the U.S. and Europe with journeys of the heart via songs that draw deeply from her roots in gospel, while crossing effortlessly into the realms of soul, R&B, urban, and popular music. Her success, nurtured by worldwide tours with Tears for Fears, Phil Collins, Michael Bolton, and Luther Vandross, has been solidified by four Grammy nominations and a seemingly bottomless well of creative energy.  David Lewis -As a founding member of the world famous POP/R&B group "Atlantic Starr" he composed, produced, arranged, and performed such smash hits as "Secret Lovers","Always" (1987's #1 Pop song),and "Masterpiece" (The #2 Pop song in 1992).... Marian Lewis Traveling the world as a print and runway model for the "Ford" modeling agency in New York, she worked for some of the world's top designers as well as hosting an national ad campaign for "Oil of Olay." At the top of their careers with fabulous homes, exotic cars, and "Celebrity Status", one would think they had it all. Yet there was an unquenchable emptiness within. DAVID & MARIAN FORMED -Into The Light Ministries This dynamic couple's ministry has left their audiences weeping as they realize their need for God their purpose, and destiny. Everywhere the Holy Spirit has sent them, they've seen souls literally transformed by the awesome power of Christ!  

Brigitte Zarie-Stops bye to debut her latest Album "MAKE ROOM FOR ME" Brigitte Zarie has been as unforgettable as her music. Hailing from Toronto, Canada, she had the benefit of being raised in a home that thrummed with the rhythms and melodies that shaped her into the artist she would become. With parents originally from Casablanca, Morocco—her father was a multi-instrumentalist while her mother was a singer—she was exposed to the world of jazz at an early age, and developed a love for classic artists like Frank Sinatra and Stan Getz. “I used to go to sleep listening to ‘Strangers In The Night’ or break up with a boyfriend and cry myself to sleep with the music of Stan Getz in the background,” From that moment on, Brigitte answered her calling, knowing exactly what she wanted to do with her life: devote it to creating the music that she was so struck by as a young girl. She kept singing and crafting songs, many of which were recorded by other artists. She played in bands and was a featured vocalist in films and commercials. She even explored other musical genres. But throughout it all, jazz remained her utmost passion, and soon she chose to focus exclusively on her own material. “ Seeking to express the experiences of her own life, she penned the songs that would become her debut CD “Make Room For Me,” a searingly emotional collection that offers a freshness and originality uncommon in the world of jazz. Brigitte Zarie carries forth the classic jazz musical tradition in her own unique and distincive way. She brings bold determination, sassiness, originality, and unwavering insight to every song she writes. The result is a listening experience that is warm and uplifting. And a work of art that is timeless. Brigitte Zarie. A songwriter who moves the heart, stirs the soul, and is the voice of whole new generation of jazz.

The Impressions provided a critical link between Fifties rhythm & blues and Sixties soul. They pioneered and epitomized the sound of Chicago soul, a marriage of gospel and pop influences with a timely conscience. From the beginning, leader Curtis Mayfield was an innovative songwriter and producer whose work with the Impressions was typified by sophisticated yet celebratory grooves, elaborately detailed vocal arrangements, and lyrics that addressed and advanced the black freedom movement of the Sixties. On the strength of such indelible songs of striving and transcendence as “People Get Ready,” “Keep On Pushing,” and “We’re a Winner,” Mayfield has been credited with authoring “the soundtrack to the civil-rights movement.” The Impressions came together as a union between Sam Gooden and brothers Richard and Arthur Brooks (members of a vocal group called the Roosters) and songwriter/producers Jerry Butler and Curtis Mayfiled (of the Northern Jubilee Gospel Singers). Their debut single, “For Your Precious Love,” was a masterpiece of dramatic, resonant soul testifying that sold 900,000 copies and rose to #11 on the Top Forty. Released in 1958, it was credited to “The Impressions Featuring Jerry Butler,” and the spotlighting of the song’s lead vocalist resulted in jealousies leading to Butler’s departure that same year. For a few years thereafter the Impressions foundered, but they regained their footing and discovered their signature sound in the early Sixties with Mayfield in command. First, Mayfield cowrote and performed on “He Will Break Your Heart,” a stately soul gem that became Jerry Butler’s first solo hit. In 1961, a re-formed Impressions, which found Butler replaced by Fred Cash, released “Gypsy Woman,” a marriage of Brazilian rhythms and sensuous soul distinguished by Mayfield’s sweet, supple falsetto.

  In the mid-Sixties Peaches & Herb were "The Sweethearts Of Soul," chart-bound contemporaries of Marvin Gaye & Tammi Terrell and many other blessed musical pairings.  By the mid-Seventies, the duo had reinvented itself; one moment disco darlings, the next heart-and-soul honeys. The duo's career began in earnest in the mid-‘60s.  Herb was teamed with Francine Barker, a member of vocal trio The Sweet Things. As Peaches & Herb their first singles for the label failed, until radio d.j.s flipped the duo's very first release, "We're In This Thing Together," and found "Let's Fall In Love" in late 1966. Follow up tunes like "Close Your Eyes" and "For Your Love" were crossover dreams but Herb was less than satisfied. "We never reached the ultimate in success," he later confided in an interview with Britain's Blues & Soul magazine." SECOND HOUR MR. RUSSEL BLAKE DEBUT NEW ALBUM (FIERCE SOLITUDE ) As an educator, Mr. Blake has taught as an Adjunct Professor of Electrical Bass Studies at five universities across the country. He is the creator of “The Universal Language Music History & Cultural Program” of which Mr. Blake has taught to a variety of audiences from elementary through high school, colleges and universities, Senior Centers, Prisons, Hospitals, Military Installations, and Art Galleries about the history of Music.

Over the past two decades, saxophonist Walter Beasley has artfully and dynamically redefined the phrase "musical Renaissance Man" for the modern generation. Considered by fans and critics alike as "the heir to Grover Washington Jr.'s throne," the Boston-based musician has long mastered an exhilarating high wire act of balancing a successful career as a contemporary jazz recording artist and performer with an equally thriving presence in the field of music education. Since 1998, Beasley has been one of the ten highest selling saxmen in the world while continuing his highly influential work as a full professor of music at his alma mater, The Berklee School of Music, where he began teaching in the mid-80s. In 2007, Beasley— also the highest selling full-time teacher ever—celebrated his 20th year as a best selling artist in the grand style to which he's accustomed, adding to his extraordinary total of over 800,000 units sold. His second Heads Up release, Ready For Love, peaked at #2 on the Billboard Contemporary Jazz Chart and reached #1 on Smoothjazz.com.  THE SECOND HOUR OF THE SHOW Jean Baylor stops bye to discuss her career with Zhane and Debut her Latest Album "Testimony: My Life Story " Do you know who Jean Baylor is? Does the name Zhane ring a bell? Yes that stylishly suave female dynamic duo that sprinkled the 90's Billboard Charts' with dance jams infused with soulful grooves like "Hey Mr. DJ", "Groove Thang", and "Sending My Love." Remember? She was the shorter of the two who wove her vocal end with that of siren-mate, Renee Neuville, to produce some of the hottest hits of day. 

Multi-platinum recording artist Taylor Dayne Stops Bye to Discuss Her Career & Debut Her New Single From Her  Upcoming Album Taylor  has seventeen individual Top Tens on Billboard charts including, most recently, her 2008 Billboard #1, "Beautiful". Dayne's career ignited with seven consecutive Top Ten Billboard Hot 100 hits, including the #1, "Love Will Lead You Back"; she has also topped the U.S. Billboard Hot Dance Club Play chart three times.

The Smooth Balladeer Heston Stops bye to discuss His Album"Warm Human Cold World" The globe-trotting performer has come a long way from that shy boy child. Dominica born, Philly schooled, and Atlanta refined, the largely self-taught singer/songwriter/arranger/producer and guitarist with the smooth, singular sound and then bohemian appearance soon attracted a devoted following in ATL. At the urgings of fellow musicians, Heston created his self-titled EP in 2003 and a follow-up in 2008, Storyteller, through his own label, World Soul Music, and landed multiple distribution deals, including the UK’s Dome Records. Learning to be self-sufficient, Heston partnered with Grammy-winning producer Phil Driver, Khari Simmons (Jiva), and Sam Sims on Storyteller. The results? The radio-hits "If" and "Angel" landed on several much sought-after compilations, including: The Soul Lounge, Vol. 1: The Vibe Compilation, This Is Soul 2005, Atlanta Soul - Soulful Kinship From The Phoenix City CD, became among the most downloaded indie soul singles on iTunes. For its part, the critically-acclaimed Storyteller earned Heston nominations for a BET-J Virtual Award for "Best Underground Artist" for "No Way" and two SoulTracks Readers Choice Awards for "Best R&B/Soul Male Artist" and "Best New Artist of the Year." With, Warm Human, Cold World, wait ‘til you see what’s next.

Singer, Songwriter, Musician, Producer, Author, Playwright, Artist  Miles Jaye Stops Bye to debut his 3 New Albums his upcoming tour also to discuss   being a Avant Garde painter Singer, songwriter, Miles Jaye, is a native New Yorker; it is there that he studied music theory and classical violin for more than ten years at the Brooklyn Conservatory of Music, Saratoga School for Orchestral Studies and Brooklyn College. An accomplished musician and producer, Jaye is best known for his chart-topping hits, "Let’s Start Love Over", "Heaven" and "Objective" featuring Grover Washington, Jr. His heart wrenching "I’ve Been A Fool For You" has become one of radio’s favorite R&B classics. While Jaye laid the groundwork for excellence with his three highly acclaimed CD’s on Island Records, MILES, STRONG and IRRESISTIBLE; he continued that standard of excellence on his own Black Tree Records with titles such as the ODYSSEY, DIVINE ASCENSION, ROMANTIC STORM, TIME TO GET MY MIND RIGHT and HUMANITY."Miles is an artist in the true sense of the word." -- Tony Brown, WDAS-FM