Eloise Laws | |
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| Background information | |
| Birth name | Lavern Eloise Laws |
| Born | November 6, 1943 Houston, Texas, U.S. |
| Genres | Jazz, R&B |
| Occupation(s) | Vocalist |
| Labels | Invictus, ABC, Capitol |
Eloise Laws (born November 6, 1943) is an American singer and a member of the Laws family of musicians from Houston, Texas. [1] [2] [3] [4]
Lavern Eloise Laws was born in Houston, Texas, as the fourth of eight children of Miola Luverta Donahue and Hubert Laws, Sr. [5] Born into a family of musicians, her siblings include flutist Hubert, saxophonist Ronnie, and vocalist Debra. [6] [7] [8] [9]
In the 1970s, she began recording for Holland-Dozier-Holland's Music Merchant and later Invictus labels. Her first album, Ain't It Good Feeling Good, was released on Invictus in 1977. Unfortunately, both labels folded. Laws released the LP Eloise (ABC) later the same year and Eloise Laws (Liberty) in 1980, both of which featured the songwriting and producing talents of Linda Creed.
Eloise has been credited as one of the backing singers on her brother Ronnie's 1980 LP Every Generation.
After All in Time, for Capitol, followed two years later, Laws was featured on albums from such artists as Harvey Mason, Lee Oskar, Aquarian Dream, Ahmad Jamal as well as several releases by her siblings. She did not record another solo album until the late 1990s. Meanwhile, she pursued a career on stage, starring in the Tony-nominated musical, It Ain't Nothin' But the Blues , which she also co-wrote. [10]
Stevland Hardaway Morris, known professionally as Stevie Wonder, is an American singer-songwriter, musician, and record producer. One of the most acclaimed and influential musicians of the 20th century, he is credited as a pioneer and influence by musicians across a range of genres that include R&B, pop, soul, gospel, funk, and jazz. A virtual one-man band, Wonder's use of synthesizers and other electronic musical instruments during the 1970s reshaped the conventions of contemporary R&B. He also helped drive such genres into the album era, crafting his LPs as cohesive and consistent, in addition to socially conscious statements with complex compositions. Blind since shortly after his birth, Wonder was a child prodigy who signed with Motown's Tamla label at the age of 11, where he was given the professional name Little Stevie Wonder.
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