Bell Biv Devoe

As members of the teenage R&B vocal group New Edition [see entry], Ricky Bell, Michael Bivins, and Ronnie DeVoe kept fairly low profiles, leaving the limelight to singers Ralph Tresvant and Bobby Brown, and later Johnny Gill. But when Brown went solo in 1986, Bell, Bivins, and DeVoe began thinking about pursuing their own separate paths together. Two years later - with some prodding from prominent...