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Shirley Brown is tagged as: soul, female vocalists, stax, southern soul, funk

Shirley Brown is a soul singer, born January 6, 1947 in West Memphis, Arkansas. She had a classic Soul background, having started to sing in a Baptist Church in St Louis, Missouri at the end of 10. Very much a singer in the southern Deep Soul tradiiton, she is one of the few vocalists whose range and power invite comparison with Aretha Franklin.
She had sung professionally since the age of 22, and recorded for small labels in St Louis and Nashville. Her manager, bluesman Albert King negotiated a recording deal with Stax records in Memphis, and, resulted in national attention with the 1974 hit ‘Woman to Woman’ taken from the 1974 album of the same name. Soul critic Ron Wynn went on to call ‘Woman to Woman’ a ‘seminal confessional and confrontational soul masterpiece,’ and it was actually the last hit for the Stax label and its success actually delayed its collapse into bankruptcy for several months.
Left musically orphaned by the collapse of Stax in 1975, Shirley Brown looked around for another label, and was one of the first signings to Clive Davis’ Arista where she cut the undervalued ‘Shirley Brown’ album in 1976. She then recorded for several other labels, including 20th Century, the revamped and relaunched Stax, and ...
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Top 10 Shirley Brown Songs
Woman To Woman
Between You And Me
It Ain't No Fun
Stay With Me Baby
Long As You Love Me
Passion
So Glad To Have You
I've Got To Go On Without You
If You're Weak Enough
YOU AIN'T WOMAN ENOUGH TO TAKE MY MAN
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Top 10 Shirley Brown Albums
Woman To Woman
Diva of Soul
For The Real Feeling
Unleashed
Intimate Storm
Woman to Woman [Stax Remasters]
Joy & Pain
Fire & Ice
The Soul of a Woman
Holding My Own
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