SC Music Legends

Singer/Songwriter Angela Brown was born in Columbia, South Carolina on December 18, 1961. She began singing gospel music at First Nazareth Baptist Church. At the age of 16, she formed the rap [...]

Songwriter/Producer/Bandleader Horace Ott was born in St. Matthews, South Carolina on April 15, 1933. He learned to play piano during his childhood. Once in high school, he played in the school [...]

William Alonzo Anderson was born in Greenville, South Carolina on September 12, 1916. At the age of four he lost both of his parents and was sent to live at Jenkins Orphanage in Charleston, where [...]

Significance with Jazz The Jenkins Orphanage was established in 1891 by Rev. Daniel Joseph Jenkins in Charleston, South Carolina. Rev. Jenkins, a former orphan himself, stumbled across four [...]

Guitarist (Count Basie Orchestra) Freddie William Green was born on March 31, 1911 in Charleston, South Carolina. He was exposed to music at a very early age. Green learned to play the banjo [...]

Singer (La Bouche) Melanie Thornton was born on May 13, 1967, in Charleston, South Carolina. She began studying music at an early age. She grew up listening to Aretha Franklin and Roberta Flack. [...]

Chubby Checker was born Ernest Evans on October 3, 1941 in Spring Gully, South Carolina and raised in Philadelphia, PA. As a child his mother took him to see Sugar Child Robinson (a child piano [...]

Singer/Actor/Activist/Dancer Born Eartha Mae Keith on January 17, 1927 in North, South Carolina. During her childhood, she was ostracized because of her mixed-race heritage. At the age of eight, [...]