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April 22, 2005

The Immortals - The Greatest Artists of All Time: 99) Curtis Mayfield

By Boz Scaggs

Recordings and Reviews

Superfly

This soundtrack to the flash and clever Super Fly is as pleasing and pretty in your living room as it is mingled with the images that it aurally represents. In fact the anti-drug message on the record is far stronger and more definite than in the film, which was diluted by schizoid cross purposes....

2007 RS: Not Rated

Superfly

2007

Mayfield: Remixed - The Curtis...

2005

Curtis

2000

New World Order

1996

The Anthology 1961-1977

1992

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Biography

Curtis Mayfield was a driving force in black music from the early '60s through the mid-'70s, as a singer, writer, producer, and label owner.

Mayfield began singing with gospel groups such as the Northern Jubilee Singers, who were part of his grandmother's Traveling Soul Spiritualist Church. He met lifelong friend and collaborator Jerry Butler at a gospel function, and they went on to form the...

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