Gwen Guthrie: Soul and Substance
Lesley White, The Face, October 1983
Despite all the changes in black music, it's still possible to start in the church and end up in the charts. Maybe that's one of the reasons why, in an idiom where substance is so often sacrificed to surface, GWEN GUTHRIE stands apart. She has been singing professionally for the best part of a decade, usually in the shadow of vocalists like Roberta Flack and Aretha Franklin. Now she's ready to stake her own claim to the title of First Lady.
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