Rose Royce is a Grammy-nominated American soul band. The Los Angeles-based group composed of Henry Garner (drums), Terral "Terry" Santiel (congas), Lequeint "Duke" Jobe (bass), Michael Moore (saxophone), Rose Norwalt (real name Gwen Dickey, lead vocals), Kenny Copeland (trumpet, lead vocals), Kenji Brown (guitar, lead vocals), Freddie Dunn (trumpet), and Michael Nash (keyboards) — began in the early 1970s, when members of several backup bands fro...
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Rose Royce is a Grammy-nominated American soul band. The Los Angeles-based group composed of Henry Garner (drums), Terral "Terry" Santiel (congas), Lequeint "Duke" Jobe (bass), Michael Moore (saxophone), Rose Norwalt (real name Gwen Dickey, lead vocals), Kenny Copeland (trumpet, lead vocals), Kenji Brown (guitar, lead vocals), Freddie Dunn (trumpet), and Michael Nash (keyboards) — began in the early 1970s, when members of several backup bands from the Watts and Inglewood areas of Los Angeles united under the name Total Concept Unlimited. It was while T.C.U. was incubating, in 1973, that they toured England and Japan behind Motown soul star Edwin Starr. And it was Starr who introduced them to Norman Whitfield, Motown's 'psychadelic shaman' who was responsible for bringing a progressive funk-rock slant to the company via such productions as Starr's War, The Undisputed Truth's Smiling Faces Sometimes and The Temptations Papa Was A Rolling Stone.
Whitfield , after a decade at Motown,...
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