About: Sonny Charles

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Sonny Charles (born Charles Hemphill, September 4, 1940) is an American soul singer born to a sharecropping family at Blytheville, Arkansas. At the age of 10. he moved with his parents and six sisters to Fort Wayne, Indiana. He was the lead singer of the Checkmates, Ltd. in the 1960s and 1970s, and it is his vocals that are heard out front on their 1969 Phil Spector-produced hit, "Black Pearl". Charles launched a solo career in the early 1970s, and had a brief reunion with the Checkmates during the 1980s. Thereafter, from the mid- to late 1990s, he toured with another member of the Checkmates, Ltd., Marvin "Sweet Louie" Smith, under the Checkmates name.

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  • سوني تشارلز (بالإنجليزية: Sonny Charles)‏ هو مغني أمريكي، ولد في 4 سبتمبر 1940 في فورت واين في الولايات المتحدة. (ar)
  • Sonny Charles, narozen jako Charles Hemphill (* 4. září 1940, Fort Wayne, Indiana, Spojené státy americké), je americký zpěvák. V šedesátých a sedmdesátých letech působil v R&B kapele , která debutovala v roce 1967 koncertním albem Live! at Caesar's Palace a o dva roky později dosáhla značného úspěchu se singlem „Black Pearl“ (produkoval jej Phil Spector). V roce 1982 vydal Sonny Charles své první sólové album The Sun Still Shines, které se umístilo na 136. přížčce hitparády časopisu Billboard. Singl „Put It in a Magazine“ se vyšplhal až na 40. místo žebříčku Billboard Hot 100. V letech 2008 až 2011 působil v kapele Steve Miller Band, s níž nahrál desky Bingo! (2010) a Let Your Hair Down (2011). (cs)
  • Sonny Charles (born Charles Hemphill, September 4, 1940) is an American soul singer born to a sharecropping family at Blytheville, Arkansas. At the age of 10. he moved with his parents and six sisters to Fort Wayne, Indiana. He was the lead singer of the Checkmates, Ltd. in the 1960s and 1970s, and it is his vocals that are heard out front on their 1969 Phil Spector-produced hit, "Black Pearl". Charles launched a solo career in the early 1970s, and had a brief reunion with the Checkmates during the 1980s. Thereafter, from the mid- to late 1990s, he toured with another member of the Checkmates, Ltd., Marvin "Sweet Louie" Smith, under the Checkmates name. (en)
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  • سوني تشارلز (بالإنجليزية: Sonny Charles)‏ هو مغني أمريكي، ولد في 4 سبتمبر 1940 في فورت واين في الولايات المتحدة. (ar)
  • Sonny Charles, narozen jako Charles Hemphill (* 4. září 1940, Fort Wayne, Indiana, Spojené státy americké), je americký zpěvák. V šedesátých a sedmdesátých letech působil v R&B kapele , která debutovala v roce 1967 koncertním albem Live! at Caesar's Palace a o dva roky později dosáhla značného úspěchu se singlem „Black Pearl“ (produkoval jej Phil Spector). V roce 1982 vydal Sonny Charles své první sólové album The Sun Still Shines, které se umístilo na 136. přížčce hitparády časopisu Billboard. Singl „Put It in a Magazine“ se vyšplhal až na 40. místo žebříčku Billboard Hot 100. V letech 2008 až 2011 působil v kapele Steve Miller Band, s níž nahrál desky Bingo! (2010) a Let Your Hair Down (2011). (cs)
  • Sonny Charles (born Charles Hemphill, September 4, 1940) is an American soul singer born to a sharecropping family at Blytheville, Arkansas. At the age of 10. he moved with his parents and six sisters to Fort Wayne, Indiana. He was the lead singer of the Checkmates, Ltd. in the 1960s and 1970s, and it is his vocals that are heard out front on their 1969 Phil Spector-produced hit, "Black Pearl". Charles launched a solo career in the early 1970s, and had a brief reunion with the Checkmates during the 1980s. Thereafter, from the mid- to late 1990s, he toured with another member of the Checkmates, Ltd., Marvin "Sweet Louie" Smith, under the Checkmates name. (en)
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