Posted by admin on December 6, 2011
Laura Lee was born in Chicago as Laura Lee Newton (March 9, 1945), but as a child relocated to Detroit with her mother. Her music laid the groundwork for artists like Millie Jackson and Denise LaSalle to expand this proud, sexy, brash-talking corner of "women's" soul music. She joined The Meditation Singers Gospel Group at an early age. In 1965, as...