Soul / Blues / R & B Georgia Music Artists T- Z

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Kristina Train, a native of Savannah, GA, is a singer songwriter. She has performed with Susan Tedeschi, Elton John, Bernie Taupin, Al Green, Tony Bennett, Darius Rucker, Chris Isaak, Jools Holland, Herbie Hancock and other recording artists. 

Inducted into the Georgia Music Hall Of Fame in 2007, Usher is a soul R & B singer songwriter from Atlanta, GA. His debut album, "Usher" and six others went gold and platinum.

Kanye West, born in Atlanta, GA, is a hip hop, rap, soul singer and record producer. He is one of the world's best selling recording artist selling over 160 million records and as producer he has produced more #1 hit songs than any other artist (Hip Hop By The Numbers) . In September 2021, his new full-length "Donda" arrives at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 albums chart with the largest start of 2021, 23 of the 27 tracks featured on the project debut on the Hot 100, giving West control over nearly one-quarter of all the spaces on the most competitive songs ranking in the U.S.  Topping the annual Pazz & Jop critic poll, he has the 5th most appearances on the Billboard Hot 100 - 133 entries and holds the joint record, with Bob Dylan, for most albums - 4. Rolling Stone named him one of the 100 Greatest Songwriters of All Time. West has accumulated 22 Grammy Awards. 

Joe Williams, a native of Cordele, GA, was a jazz singer who sang with the Count Basie Orchestra and the Lionel Hampton Orchestra. Williams won the Best Jazz Vocal Performance Grammy Award for his LP Nothin' but the Blues in 1984; it was also the winning Traditional Blues Album in the Blues Music Awards of the Blues Foundation in the following year. Williams was nominated for seven other Grammy awards: for Prez & Joe (1979); "8 to 5 I Lose" (1982); I Just Want To Sing (1986); Every Night: Live At Vine St. (1987); "I Won't Leave You Again" (with Lena Horne, 1988); "Is You Is or Is You Ain't My Baby" (with Marlena Shaw, 1989); and In Good Company (1989).

Chuck Willis was a R & B singer songwriter from Atlanta, GA. He had several big hits including, " it's Too Late, "Juanita", "C. C. Rider" in 1957 and "What Am I Living For" in 1958, both the 1957 and 1958 hits reaching #1 on the Billboard R & B chart. Willis was inducted into the Georgia Music Hall of Fame in 1994.