Edwin Starr
Bill Millar, Soul Music Monthly, February 1967
Edwin Starr was born Charles Hatcher in the country-music capital of Nashville, Tennessee, on 21st January 1942. Neither his mother, Amanda, nor his father, William, was especially musical and he grew up at home with them and two brothers and a sister.
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