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| | Singer, pianist, producer, songwriter and record executive.
Born on 31.12.1922 in Bessemer, Alabama
Died on 06.01.2002.
Nicknamed the Godmother of Detroit soul, as she founded Detroit's Northern Recording Company in 1958, a label where quite a few future Motown stars started their recording career. Johnnie Mae founded many other record labels in Detroit including , , , (named after her husband), (named after her daughter), , , and .
As a recording artist she was most active during the 1960s. During the 1970s she mainly focused on producing Black Nasty, later reincarnated as the ADC Band, a group that featured her son Artwell Matthews on drums and her daughter Audrey Matthews as a lead singer. |
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