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The Biz is a 1995 album by The Sea and Cake.

Track listing[link]

1. "The Biz" – 4:01
2. "Leeora" – 4:23
3. "The Kiss" – 3:46
4. "Station in the Valley" – 4:54
5. "Darkest Night" – 3:49
6. "Sending" – 2:29
7. "Escort" – 4:28
8. "An Assassin" – 3:07
9. "The Transaction" – 3:33
10. "For Minor Sky" – 3:33

Personnel[link]

• Sam Prekop – vocals, guitar
• Archer Prewitt – guitar, organ, vibes
• Eric Claridge – bass
• John McEntire – drums, electric piano

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Guvna B (born 13 June 1989) is a British urban contemporary gospel rapper and composer. He is also a long standing supporter of West Ham United Football Club.

He was born in Barking, London, England to parents originating from Accra, Ghana. He attended St Luke’s Primary School and St. Edwards Church of England School. Guvna B graduated in 2011 with a BA in Business Management from the University of Hertfordshire.

The name is an acronym for God’s Unique Vessel Now Assigned. As a Christian performing artist, Guvna aims to create inspiring music that is relevant to today’s world.

At twenty years of age, Guvna B delivered two independent releases, and was featured on an award winning album by G Force entitled 'Destroy & Rebuild'. He reached the number one slot on MySpace charts for Gospel & Christian rap in July 2009.

The year 2009 saw Guvna’s musical activities and achievements include:

• Gospel Music Award “Best Gospel Artist” 2009
• Joins Black Grape Management artist roster
• Sold out stalls of the Hackney Empire with show “An Evening with Guvna B”
• Released DVD “Guvna B Live at the Hackney Empire”
• Supported Fred Hammond in Birmingham
• Won Urban Music Award “Best Gospel” Award 2009
• Supported Marvin Sapp at Birmingham concert
• Supported Kirk Franklin at London concert
• Headed a concert at the Jazz Café London

Guvna B became the first gospel artist to appear on Radio 1’s DJ “Westwood's Crib Sessions” and has shared the stage with some of UK’s leading urban talent including Chipmunk, Tinie Tempah and Bashy. Guvna B’s key musical collaborations include working alongside artists G Force, YolanDa Brown, Noel Robinson, LZ7, Four Kornerz, Jahaziel and Victizzle.

Guvna B started 2010 with his "NEXT TING 140" project he moved on to participate in T3M (The Three Musketeers) campaign^[1] which saw him come together with Faith Child and Victizzle to take “gospel music mainstream” as they performed at the Indig02 at the O2 Arena.

In August 2010 Guvna B played again at the O2 Arena supporting Eddie Kadi. He also performed at the annual Black Police Association "Celebration of Life" 2010 event at London’s Royal Festival Hall in October.^[2]

Guvna B won Best Gospel Act in the 2010 MOBO Awards and collected his award at the ceremony on 20 October in Liverpool, which was televised live on BBC Three.

The year 2011 saw Guvna B appointed a Youth For Christ ambassador and an ambassador for the Terence Higgins Trust working with commitment to help promote and support the work and agenda of these organisations. Guvna B is also a celebrity ambassador for The Prince's Trust. He was invited to a Downing Street reception in April 2011 along with some of the UK's most noted Christian figures where he met and had opportunity to speak with the Prime Minister David Cameron.

The 2011 England riots saw some of the themes that Guvna B was keen to pursue with the Prime Minister come to pass. At the height of the troubles he released a specially recorded track called “Hometown Riots” calling for calm.

The musical highlights for Guvna B in 2011 included:

• being featured on soul legend Jocelyn Brown’s single “Stand Up” from her album True Praises.
• a UK nationwide tour with Lethal B, Ghetts and LZ7
• the “Next Ting 140” album debuting at No.2 on the Amazon Christian Chart
• the “Scrapbook” mixtape being downloaded over 30,000 times
• being nominated for “Best Mixtape of 2011” in the Official Mixtape Awards^[3]

From 11 January 2012 Guvna B began presenting “Hip Hop Sessions” on Premier Gospel Radio, every Wednesday from 19:00 to 21:00.^[4]

Discography[link]

• The Narrow Road (released 31 May 2008)
• Scrapbook (1 January 2011)^[5]
• Next Ting 140 (released 18 August 2011)

Awards and nominations[link]

References[link]

External links[link]

• Guvna B Website
• Guvna B and YolanDa Brown Hackney Empire (YouTube)
• Next Ting 140 Project
• T3M at Indig02 (YouTube)
• Hometown Riots (YouTube)
• Scrapbook Documentary (YouTube)

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Delbert McClinton (born November 4, 1940)^[2] is an American blues rock and electric blues singer-songwriter, guitarist, harmonica player, and pianist.^[1]

Active as a side-man since 1962 and as a band leader since 1972, he has recorded several major record label albums, and charted singles on the Billboard Hot 100, Mainstream Rock Tracks, and Hot Country Songs charts. His highest-peaking single was "Tell Me About It", a 1992 duet with Tanya Tucker which reached No. 4 on the Country chart. He has also had four albums that made it to No. 1 on the U.S. Blues chart, and another that reached #2.

He was inducted into the Texas Heritage Songwriters Hall of Fame,^[3] in March 2011, along with Lee Roy Parnell, Bruce Channel, Gary Nicholson and Cindy Walker.

Career[link]

Early years[link]

Delbert McClinton was born in Lubbock, Texas, United States, but relocated with his family to Fort Worth, Texas when he was age 11.^[2] He worked in a bar band, The Straitjackets, who played backing to Sonny Boy Williamson II, Howlin' Wolf, Lightnin' Hopkins, and Jimmy Reed. McClinton recorded several regional singles before hitting the national chart in 1962, playing harmonica on Bruce Channel's "Hey! Baby."^[2] On a subsequent package tour to the United Kingdom, McClinton instructed John Lennon on the finer points of blues harmonica playing.^[4]

1970s[link]

Relocating to Los Angeles in 1972, McClinton partnered with fellow Texan, Glen Clark, to perform a combination of country and soul music. They achieved a degree of artistic success, releasing two albums before splitting and McClinton embarked on a solo career.^[2]

Emmylou Harris had a No. 1 hit in 1978 with McClinton's composition "Two More Bottles of Wine," and his "B Movie Boxcar Blues" was covered on the first The Blues Brothers album, Briefcase Full of Blues.^[2]

1980s and 1990s[link]

McClinton's 1980 album, The Jealous Kind, contained his only Top 40 hit single, "Givin' It Up for Your Love", which peaked at number 8 on the Billboard Hot 100. After an inactive period during much of the 1980s, McClinton made a return in 1989 with the Live From Austin album, recorded during an Austin City Limits appearance.^[2]

He won a 1991 Grammy Award for his duet with Bonnie Raitt, "Good Man, Good Woman", and reached the Top 5 of the Country chart with the Tanya Tucker duet, "Tell Me About It."^[2] McClinton recorded the opening title song "Weatherman" for the Bill Murray film Groundhog Day. The fledgling label Rising Tide released One of the Fortunate Few in 1997, before the label went out of business.^[2]

2000–present[link]

In addition to releasing two new studio albums in the early 2000s, New West Records issued Delbert McClinton Live in 2003, a compilation album of songs from throughout his career. In 2006, McClinton won a Grammy Award for his album The Cost of Living in the Best Contemporary Blues Album category.^[2]

McClinton was a judge for the fourth annual Independent Music Awards to support independent artists' careers.^[5]

McClinton is the feature of the musical documentary, Rocking the Boat: A Musical Conversation and Journey, by the film maker Jay Curlee. In December 2011, McClinton is still active and appeared on the Fox Business Network Channel.

Discography[link]

Studio albums[link]

Compilation albums[link]

Singles[link]

Guest singles[link]

References[link]

External links[link]

• Official website
• http://www.allmusic.com/artist/p448/biography

Joel Edwards
Personal information
Full name	Joel Ashley Edwards
Born	(1961-11-22) November 22, 1961 (age 50) Dallas, Texas
Height	6 ft 0 in (1.83 m)
Weight	190 lb (86 kg; 14 st)
Nationality	United States
Career
College	North Texas State University
Turned professional	1984
Current tour(s)	Champions Tour
Former tour(s)	PGA Tour
Professional wins	3
Number of wins by tour
PGA Tour	1
Nationwide Tour	1
Other	1
Best results in Major Championships
Masters Tournament	DNP
U.S. Open	T62: 1993
The Open Championship	DNP
PGA Championship	T39: 2002

Joel Ashley Edwards (born November 22, 1961) is an American professional golfer.

Edwards was born in Dallas, Texas. He attended North Texas State University and turned professional in 1984.

Edwards has played on both the PGA Tour and the Nationwide Tour. He has won once on each tour: the 2001 Air Canada Championship and the 1999 NIKE Mississippi Gulf Coast Open. He lost his PGA Tour card in 2004 and competed on the Nationwide Tour through 2007.

Edwards played occasionally on the Nationwide Tour from 2009 to 2011 before being eligible for the Champions Tour in 2012.

Professional wins (3)[link]

PGA Tour wins (1)[link]

No.	Date	Tournament	Winning Score	Margin of Victory	Runner-up
1	Sep 2, 2001	Air Canada Championship	-19 (65-67-68-65=265)	7 strokes	Steve Lowery

Nationwide Tour wins (1)[link]

No.	Date	Tournament	Winning Score	Margin of Victory	Runner-up
1	Feb 21, 1999	NIKE Mississippi Gulf Coast Open	-8 (68-70-73-69=280)	1 stroke	John Riegger

Other wins (1)[link]

• 1988 North Dakota Open

Results in major championships[link]

DNP = Did not play
CUT = missed the half-way cut
"T" = tied
Green background for wins. Yellow background for top-10.

External links[link]

• Joel Edwards at the PGA Tour official site

Otis Clay
Otis Clay (1997)
Background information
Born	(1942-02-11) February 11, 1942 (age 70)
Origin	Waxhaw, Bolivar County, Mississippi, United States
Genres	Soul, R&B, gospel
Occupations	Singer
Instruments	Vocals
Years active	1957–present
Labels	One-Derful Records Cotillion Records Hi Records Bullseye Blues Blind Pig Records Echo Records
Website	otisclay.net

Otis Clay (born February 11, 1942, Waxhaw, Bolivar County, Mississippi, United States) is an American R&B and soul singer, who started in gospel music.

Life and career[link]

Clay was born in rural Bolivar County, Mississippi to a musical family, who moved in 1953 to Muncie, Indiana. After singing with local gospel group, the Voices of Hope, he returned to Mississippi to sing with the Christian Travelers, before settling in Chicago in 1957. There, he joined a series of gospel vocal groups including the Golden Jubilaires, the Famous Blue Jay Singers, the Holy Wonders, and the Pilgrim Harmonizers, before making his first solo secular recordings in 1962. They were unissued, and Clay joined the Gospel Songbirds, who recorded in Nashville in 1964 and who also included Maurice Dollison who sang R&B under the name Cash McCall, and then the Sensational Nightingales.^[1]

In 1965 Clay signed with One-derful! Records in Chicago, to make secular recordings.^[2] After releasing a series of gospel-tinged soul records, his first hit came in 1967 with "That's How It Is (When You're In Love)", which reached # 34 on the R&B chart, followed by "A Lasting Love" (# 48 R&B).^[3] In 1968 the record company folded and his contract was bought by Atlantic Records, who launched their subsidiary Cotillion label with Clay's version of the Sir Douglas Quintet hit, "She's About A Mover", produced at the FAME Studios in Muscle Shoals. The record became Clay's biggest pop hit, reaching # 97 on the Hot 100 (# 47 R&B). However, follow-ups on Cotillion, including "Hard Working Woman" produced by Syl Johnson, and "Is It Over?" produced by Willie Mitchell in Memphis, were less successful.^[1][3]

Clay moved to Mitchell's Hi Records in 1971, and made many of his best known soul blues records for the label. His biggest hit came with "Trying To Live My Life Without You," a # 24 R&B hit in late 1972, which he followed up with "If I Could Reach Out". "Trying To Live My Life Without You" was later covered by Bob Seger, whose version made # 5 on the pop chart in 1981.^[4] After several more Hi singles and the album I Can't Take It, Clay moved to Kayvette Records, where he had his last national hit single in 1977, "All Because Of Your Love" (# 44 R&B).^[1][3] He later recorded for the Elka and Rounder labels, as well as his own Echo Records for whom he recorded the original version of "The Only Way is Up" in 1980.

He has remained a popular live act in Europe and Japan, as well as the US, and has recorded two live albums, Soul Man: Live in Japan and Respect Yourself, recorded live at the Lucerne Blues Festival in Switzerland.^[1][5] In the 1990s he also recorded two soul albums for Bullseye Blues: I'll Treat You Right and the Willie Mitchell-produced This Time Around. In 2007, he recorded the gospel album Walk a Mile in My Shoes.^[4]

He has been a nominee for a Grammy for Best Traditional R&B Vocal Performance. As a resident of Chicago's West Side, he is actively involved in community-based economic and cultural initiatives, including the development of The Harold Washington Cultural Center.^[5]

References[link]

External links[link]

• Official website