Jamie Grace .

Jamie Grace has stolen the hearts of many Christianmusic lovers with her number one single “Hold Me.” But looking at the successful teen, it would be difficult to tell that she battles with Tourette's Syndrome and is persevering to complete her college education.

It's been an exciting year for Grace. With releasing her first album on tobyMac’s Gotee Records, touring, and being well received by fans, the 19-year-old has had her hands full.

Life has greatly changed for Grace, who started from a humble place, by making YouTube videos of cover songs and some original tunes, along with being a BREATHEcast intern.

Amassing about 100 videos, she caught the eye of producer tobyMac, who tweeted about working together. Initially believing the tweet was fake, the authenticity of it was realized when her manager-mom was contacted on behalf of tobyMac.

A spokeswoman for Tourette’s Syndrome, the teen had been making moves before she began with Gotee Records but is now continuing to help change lives through her music, managing her illness and pursuing her scholastic goals.

In a BREATHEcast interview, the busy renaissance woman took time out to let her BREATHEcast fans into her world

Florence Ballard was born in Detroit in 1943. The ninth of fifteen children, Ballard's parents Lurlee (née Wilson) and Jessie Lambert Ballardhad migrated from Rosetta, Mississippi, to participate in Detroit's then booming job market. Jessie Ballard eventually found work at General Motors but still struggled to take care of his growing brood. The Ballards moved constantly around Detroit, living in 7 Mile for a brief time and then living at the Black Bottom projects. Ballard's family eventually settled at the then-newly developed Brewster-Douglass housing projectsby the time Ballard was fifteen.

Ballard's cousin was rock and roll and soul music pioneer Hank Ballard. Ballard began singing in church at an early age. Ballard, often called "Flo" by family and friends, also acquired the nickname "Blondie" due to her light auburn hair and fair complexion that reflected her mixed heritage. In 1958, Ballard met Mary Wilson and became acquainted with her after they participated in the same talent competition.

Milton Jenkins, a local man then best known for his work with the all-male group the Primes (who became The Temptations), was scouting for girls to become members of his group's sister act, the Primettes. Jenkins took an interest in Ballard's voice after Ballard auditioned for him and Primes members Paul Williams and Eddie Kendricks. Jenkins recruited Ballard as the first member of the Primettes and asked her to enlist other members. Immediately Ballard convinced Mary Wilson to join the group; Wilson then contacted fellow neighbor Diana Ross. Eighteen-year-old Betty McGlown, who was dating Paul Williams at the time, rounded out the quartet. In 1960, McGlown left and was replaced by Barbara Martin. Martin eventually left in 1962, and the group decided to remain a trio.

Described by Wilson and friend Jesse Greer as having been a generally happy if somewhat mischievous and sassy teenager, Ballard experienced a change in personality, from which she seemingly never recovered, as the result of an incident that occurred in the summer of 1960. Leaving a sock hop at Detroit's Graystone Ballroom one evening, Ballard accidentally was separated from her brother Billy, with whom she had attended the event. Accepting a ride home from a young man she felt she recognized, local high-school basketball player Reginald Harding,^[3] Ballard was instead driven north to an empty parking lot off of Woodward Avenue. There, Harding raped Ballard at knife point.

After weeks of sequestered silence that confused Wilson and Ross, Ballard finally told her groupmates what had happened to her. The girls were sympathetic but as confused as Ballard herself, whom they had considered strong-willed and unflappable. Consequently, Ballard's assault was never mentioned again, either in clinical therapy or in social conversation^[4]—something that Wilson believes heavily contributed to the more self-destructive aspects of Ballard's adult personality, such as her cynicism, pessimism, and fear or mistrust of others.

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Tammi Terrel - April 24 1945- March 16 - 1970

Tammi Terrellreal name is  Thomasina Winifred,she was born  in Philadelphia. Members of her family have said her parents figured their eldest child would be a son and had settled on "Thomas". After Terrell's birth, they added in "-ina". Terrell was called "Tommie" by family. Terrell has a younger sister, Ludie (born 1949). Terrell began singing in church at an early age. Terrell developed a rebellious, free-spirited streak and changed her name to "Tammy" after seeing the film Tammy and the Bachelor in the summer of 1957 and hearing its theme song "Tammy". Around this time, Terrell began complaining of migraines and headaches. Terrell's family said that this foreshadowed her later struggle with brain cancer but that at the time they did not regard it as a major issue.

By the age of thirteen, Terrell had begun a professional singing career. In 1960, prior to her fifteenth birthday, she signed with Scepter Records, and recorded the doo-wop single "If You See Bill" , releasing it under the name "Tammy Montgomery". Though the record wasn't a success, it did establish Terrell in some R&B circles and Terrell went on tour with some of Scepter's biggest artists and other popular R&B artists of the Philadelphia area, including Chubby Checker and Patti LaBelle and the Bluebelles. She also opened for R&B star Gene Chandler, with whom she had a friendship. In 1962, Terrell came to the attention of James Brown and the seventeen-year-old found herself in Brown's popular Revue becoming one of Brown's first female headliners. In 1963, Terrell recorded for Brown's Try Me Records, releasing the ballad, "I Cried", which gave her some chart success. Terrell and Brown also had a personal relationship, which was hampered by Brown's physical abuse towards her. After a horrific incident backstage after a show, Terrell asked Chandler (who witnessed the incident first hand) to take her to the bus station so she could go home. He later called her mother to come pick her up. This ended Terrell's two-year relationship with Brown. Ludie Montgomery stated in her memoirs of Terrell that she met Sam Cookein 1964 after Cooke showed a romantic interest in Terrell. Before a relationship could forge, however, Cooke was murdered in Los Angeles that December.

After recording a single for Checker Records in 1964, produced by the legendary Bert Berns and paired with singer Jimmy Radcliffe on a now-released duet version of the song "If I Would Marry You" wherein she debuted as a co-writer with Berns, Terrell semi-retired from show business and enrolled in the University of Pennsylvania where she stayed for two years majoring in pre-med. In 1965, Jerry "The Ice Man" Butler asked Terrell to sing with him in a series of nightclub shows, which Terrell agreed to with a schedule that would allow her to continue her studies in Pennsylvania. In March 1965, Motown Records CEO Berry Gordy spotted Terrell performing in Detroit and asked Terrell to sign with Motown. Terrell agreed and signed with Motown on April 29, 1965, her 20th birthday.

Chandra Currelley

Chandra Wow Magazine . 

Most recently seen in the motion picture, "Madea’s Big Happy Family" as the choir soloist, Sister Laura, and you probably recognize her as the singer in the nightclub "Chandra’s" in the #1 box office movie, "Diary of a Mad Black Woman" and as "Shirley" in Tyler Perry’s "Madea’s Big Happy Family", the stage play. Ms. Currelley is the former lead singer for the legendary recording group, the S.O.S. Band, replacing the original lead singer. She continued the band’s string of Top Twenty Billboard hits with the CD’s "Diamonds In The Raw", and "One Of Many Nights", where she wrote several songs, including the single "Broken Promises". Chandra also starred in the world premier of "Jesus Christ Superstar Gospel", and as Mother Shaw in Regina Taylor’s "Crowns".

The 2009 Gospel Choice Award nominee has performed at The White House and toured Europe and Asia leaving audiences wanting more. She has also starred in "Dinah Was", "Blues In the Night", "The Hot Mikado", "Amen Corner" (The Alliance Theatre/ Arena Stage). "Two Queens, One Castle" with T.C. Carson (Horizon Theatre),"What’s Done In the Dark", (Fox Theatre) "Slam!" "Sophisticated Ladies" and Kenny Leon’s "Rejoice".

Because of her ability to legitimately cross musical and theatrical styles, Chandra has had the opportunity to work with some of the greats from Clarence Avant, jazz legend Roy Ayers, where she recorded the duet, "Let Me Love You", to the phenomenal Tyler Perry. Television credits include VH-1, Say Yes! (TBN) , (BET) Jazz Showcase (PBS) and Good Day Atlanta (Fox), Bobby Jones Artist Showcase (The Word Network) and the upcoming Tyler Perry’s "For Better Or Worse"(TBS).

The Helen Hayes and NAACP Phoenix Award Nominee has released two solo CD’s "The Real Me" and "Love Songs", which contains the hit song "Love Again" from the movie, "Diary of a Mad Black Woman". Available at cdbaby.com, i tunes and Rhapsody. 

Cheryl pepsii riley .

 A  Singer , An Actress ,  The women who sung the hit  ballad thanks for my child in the 80's
A women Who is yet unrecognized but still loved by many fans. A woman with a great spirit, heart and soul


BIO ,
.heryl Riley was born in Brooklyn, New York. She worked as a nurse for handicapped children for ten years before beginning her singing career, topped the US R&B chart and hit the Top 40 on the pop chart at #32 with the 1988 ballad, "Thanks for My Child," a song written by Full Force. It peaked at #75 in the UK Singles Chart in January 1989.^[1] The genesis of "Thanks for My Child" began with Full Force member Bowlegged Lou's experience with the complications of his wife's first pregnancy.

As pivotal as "Thanks for My Child" was for Riley's career, it was not the first song Lou offered to her. She refused his offer to record "I Wonder If I Take You Home" because she did not want to spread herself too thin, but after it became a million-selling hit for Lisa Lisa and Cult Jam in 1985, she thought she had missed her big break. Lou then offered her "Thanks for My Child". Riley still had her nurse's job when the song went to number one on the R&B chart.

The title track single to her debut LP Me Myself and I made it to number 18 on the R&B charts in early 1989. Another single, "Every Little Thing About You," peaked at number 55 on the R&B charts later that year. Her second LP, Chapters, was issued and yielded the singles "How Can You Hurt the One You Love" and a cover of Aretha Franklin's 1968 hit "Ain't No Way". Her third album All That! was released by Reprise, and featured the singles "Gimme" and "Guess I'm in Love."

After a hiatus from the entertainment industry, Riley re-emerged in the early 2000s as a star in a number of gospel plays for best-selling playwright Tyler Perry, including Madea's Class Reunion, Madea Goes to Jail, Why Did I Get Married?, Laugh to Keep from Crying, Madea's Big Happy Family and the most recent, A Madea Christmas. Riley also appeared in the filmversions of Diary of a Mad Black Woman and Madea's Big Happy Family. On June 27, 2006, she released her first album in fourteen years, called Let Me Be Me.

TO Be UNRECOGNIZED.

There are many people that have talents that are unrecognized or maybe a few who were recognized but then Something changed . Something like the type of talent.  Have you ever heard a song before and not know who the artist was.