David Corio/Michael Ochs Archive/Getty Frankie Beverly ... Born Dec. 6, 1946, Beverly grew up singing gospel music and formed a group called the Blenders while in high school, according to ...

Recently, Frankie Beverly was honored with the Urban One Living Legend Honor by TVOne, alongside Dionne Warwick, Mary J. Blige, gospel music super producer Donald Lawrence, and Chloe. After ...

he started calling himself Frankie after hearing Frankie Lymon & the Teenagers (a major doo wop group) when he was only nine years old in 1956. Before that, Beverly had been singing gospel in church, ...

Their 1977 debut album, “Maze Featuring Frankie Beverly,” went gold ... chops were developed early as a member of his family’s gospel group. While at the New School, Walker had a chance ...

gospel-music mainstay Dr. Bobby Jones, early English punk-rock firebrands the Clash, and — posthumously — Prince and Frankie ...