Nona Hendryx
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Nona Bernis Hendryx is an American vocalist, record producer, songwriter, musician, and author. Hendryx is known for her work as a solo artist as well as for being one-third of the trio Labelle, who h
Nona Hendryx appearing at 2009 Pop Conference, Experience Music Project, Seattle, Washington. (April 6, 2009)
Patti LaBelle
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Patricia Louise Holte, known professionally as Patti LaBelle, is an American R&B singer and actress. She is also known as the "Godmother of Soul". LaBelle began her career in the early 1960s as lead s
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…heritage, was born on October 9, 1944, in Trenton, New Jersey. There, she met fellow New Jersey native Sarah Dash and later met Philadelphia-born singer Patricia Holte (Patti LaBelle). After a short-lived tenure as a member of the Del-Capris, Hendryx and Dash formed a singing group with Holte (once the lead singer of a girl group in…
LaBelle at Black Excellence Brunch 2026
LaBelle (center) with her Labelle bandmates Nona Hendryx and Sarah Dash in a 1974 promotional photo
LaBelle promoting AIDS awareness in the 1980s
LaBelle singing at an Obama presidential campaign event in 2008