Doris Troy
USA
Born: 06 January 1937
Died: 16 February 2004
Genres: R&B
Styles: Soul, R&B/Soul, Pop-Soul
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Surely one of the most talented one-hit wonders of the rock era, Doris Troy hit the Top Ten with "Just One Look" in 1963, but also recorded many other fine pop-soul sides for Atlantic between 1963 and 1965. Unlike many soul performers of the time, Troy wrote most of her own material (under the pseudonym Payne), and had already written for other artists and sung backup with Dionne and Dee Dee Warwick and Cissy Houston on New York soul records before striking out on her own. More melodically ambitious and stylistically eclectic than many of her p...
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- Mick Clarke (19)
- Cissy Houston (0)
- Dee Dee Warwick (0)
- Sweet Inspirations (0)
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Influenced by
- Ella Fitzgerald (139)
- Billie Holiday (109)
- Etta James (33)
- Sarah Vaughan (23)
- Dinah Washington (12)
- Big Mama Thornton (10)
- Lena Horne (5)
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- The Hollies (35)
- Gary Wright (28)
- Soft Cell (22)
- Patti Labelle (21)
- James Hunter (3)
- Shirley Brown (1)
- P.P. Arnold (1)
- Barry St. John (0)
- Liza Strike (0)
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- George Harrison (67)
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