In Search Of The L.A. Black Beat
Don Snowden, Los Angeles Times, 8 May 1983
LOS ANGELES IS the home of black music stars. Stevie Wonder, Michael Jackson, Quincy Jones, Donna Summer, Lionel Richie, Dionne Warwick, Earth, Wind & Fire, Smokey Robinson, the Gap Band. Al Jarreau, Ray Parker Jr. and Natalie Cole, among others, all live and record here.
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