From left to right: Bill Spoon, Jesse James, Eltonez Salton (August Heat) and Oliver Cheatham.
 

Janet Wright arrived in Detroit as a six month old babe in arms when her family migrated north from their former home in Georgia in 1947. As a child Janet absorbed all the musical influences that surrounded her growing up in the Motor City. She first started dancing at the age of 8 and it soon became apparent that she too had a vocal talent when her mother discovered her singing along to Sarah Vaughn’s “Broken Hearted Melody” on the radio.

In the mid 19 60’s Janet often performed in local talent shows often competing against other notable future female performers from her neighbourhood. Sisters, Joyce and Pam Vincent .Who later went on to record for Golden World and Solid Hit records as part of the all girl group, The Debonaires. As well as Gwen Owens who recorded for the Velgo, Oncore, Josie, Lau-reen  and Casablanca  labels .
At the age of 20 Janet was recruited by Jack Ashford  for his Just Production company where she worked as a session singer  under the supervision of Lorriane Chandler  for a short while.
Janet then later signed on at Ernest Burt’s Magic City Label under the recommendation of Ernest’s wife Barbara. It was Barbara who suggested to Janet that she should adopt the performing name of Pixie Wright. At Magic City Janet worked as a backing singer and performed with several of the artists on the Magic City label. Although no solo recording of Janet’s are believed to have been made.
 

Following the closure of Magic City Janet moved over to Don Davis’s United Sound Studio’s where she worked as a backing singer with Pam and Joyce Vincent, Krystal Davis and Yolanda McCullough featuring on many of the records that the United Sound produced at that time. This continued until Joyce’s departure to join Tony Orlando & Dawn. Yolanda and Krystal then made the move to New York with Janet soon following them.  Once in New York Yolanda and Krystal recommended Janet to Producer Harold Wheeler.  Wheeler had worked on the hit Broadway play ‘The Wiz’( a modern adaptation of the Classic film ‘The Wizard Of Oz’)  and was by now running the sort lived Atlantic disco subsidiary label ‘Wing & A Prayer’. Here he created two studio groups one of which he signed Janet to under the name of ‘Consumer Rapport’.
 Wheeler recorded two single on Consumer Rapport, “Ease On Down The Road b/w Go On With Your Bad Self” (HS-101) followed by “Everybody Join Hands b/w Love Takes Tears” (HS-102) a later promo only 45 “A Holiday Gift/A Holiday Gift (HS-75) was later issued which featured Wing & A Prayers other studio group the “Wing & A Prayer Fife Drum Corps”.

Throughout late the 70’s Janet worked on many projects with many established artists such as Phylis Hyman, Luther Vandross, Change, Patti Austin, Eddie Kendricks, Jimmy Ruffin, Billy Idol and Jocelyn Brown. Janet a lifelong friend of Jocelyn’s incidentally sang backing vocals to Jocelyn’s lead vocals on Inner Life’s disc hit “I’m Caught Up (In A One Night Love Affair)” in 1979.
In 1984 Janet was signed by Henry Allen to Atlantic/Cottilion where she released the disco influenced dance track “I Can’t Take It”. After her Atlantic release Janet continued to do session work, which on several occasions allowed her to travel to Europe , touring with the likes of Gerald Alston, David Peaston, Natalie Cole and Whitney Houston amongst others. Janet enjoyed her European excursions so much that at one point she was seriously considering taking up residence in Holland. This ambition was sadly to be short lived following the death of her step-father in 1991 as Janet chose to return to Detroit to be closer to her mother.

In 2005 Janet became a fully trained myomassology therapist and herbal consultant, and currently spends three days a week treating her client’s sciatic problems.
In 2011 Janet returned to the studio to record a solo vanity project. Which yielded  the cd single “Even A Fool”. A second vanity project began 2013 which  will soon see the release of her  own  unique  cover version of the Rose Royce hit “ Love Don’t Live Here Anymore” which will also be featured on the forthcoming Soul Junction “Extra Rich In Soul” SJCD5007 various artists album.

David Welding  2014

Lola 

is a dynamic blues and R&B singer/keyboard player who has been igniting stages in the Atlanta area and is just beginning to break out as a national artist. Blessed with a deep soul voice, a funkified keyboard style and an intense, high energy stage presence, Lola combines traditional blues with hard-edged R&B to create her own brand of contemporary music.

Lola was born in New York and grew up as a "military brat" in Oceanside, CA before her parents moved to Mobile, AL. It was there that she began sitting in with her father's funk band, playing trumpet and drums before switching to keyboards. Stevie Wonder, Donnie Hathaway, Jimmy Smith and Joe Sample were her key piano influences, along with her father's favorite, bluesman Amos Milburn. She worked her way through college playing in three different Mobile churches, absorbing a huge dose of gospel influence that you can hear every time she sings. Her other vocal inspirations include Aretha Franklin, Bonnie Raitt, B.B. King and Stevie Wonder.
Finishing college, Lola won a berth as a keyboard player with the late soul great Johnnie Taylor, touring across the country and learning first hand how to work a crowd into a frenzy.
In 1996, after winning a nationwide talent contest on BET television contest, she was signed by Andre Harrell to a Motown recording contract, but the album remains unreleased since Harrell's departure from the company.
Since striking out on her own as a band leader, Lola has shared the stage with The Pointer Sisters, Bobby Womack, Bobby "Blue" Bland, Betty Wright and Chubby Checker. Now she's taking the spotlight herself. With her firebrand stage presence, a heap of original songs, high powered keyboards, a tight band and most of all, her deeply soulful, rich and powerful voice, Lola is a major new figure stepping on to the national blues scene.
During one of her concerts she was noticed by William Bell and subsequently signed to his record label Wilbe Records and has a new CD release titled “Cleaning House” which is getting rave reviews!

 

 

Smooth, sultry, and soulful vocalist, multi-instrumentalist, songwriter, and producer, Lionel Cornelius (LC) is the baby brother of the 70’s performing artists Cornelius Brothers & Sister Rose.

 

Lionel began singing and playing the trumpet and piano at the age of 5. At that time, he began entering local talent shows and later performed with his brothers in the group The Power House Band. Lionel was discovered and hired as an extra for the TV series, Miami Vice. After working two episodes as an extra, Lionel was interviewed and cast by Michael Mann to work alongside Clarence Williams III in the "Tale of the Goat” as his first supporting role. Lionel's passion for the stage still exists today as he returns to the music industry with this his debut single as a solo artist. While working on his first solo project in 2011, Lionel was selected by Mr. Fred Cash as the lead vocalist for “The Impressions,” but decided to
pursue a solo career instead.
 

Lionel is the owner and CEO of Lionel Cornelius Entertainment, a subsidiary of Lionel Cornelius Enterprises, Inc founded in 2001. LC Entertainment provides multimedia entertainment services to artists in the areas of recording, production, post production (music, video, film), artist management, and digital music sales.