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Birth name
  
John Colbert

Genres
  
Soul music

Role
  
Singer

Name
  
J. Blackfoot

Years active
  
1967 – 2011


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Born
  
November 20, 1946Greenville, Mississippi, U.S. (
1946-11-20
)

Died
  
November 30, 2011, Germantown, Tennessee, United States

Albums
  
Woof Woof Meow, Having an Affair, At His Best

Associated acts
  
The Bar-Kays, The Soul Children

Similar People
  
The Soul Children, Lynn White, David Brinston, Homer Banks, Sir Charles Jones

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J. Blackfoot (born John Colbert; November 20, 1946 – November 30, 2011) was an American soul singer. A member of The Soul Children in the late 1960s and 1970s, he subsequently had a moderately successful solo career. His biggest hit was "Taxi", which reached the charts in both the US and UK in 1984.

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Biography

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John Colbert was born in Greenville, Mississippi, moving as a child to Memphis, Tennessee with his family. Generally known as "J." or "Jay", he acquired the nickname "Blackfoot" as a child, for his habit of walking barefoot on the tarred sidewalks. In 1965, while spending some time in Tennessee State Penitentiary in Nashville for car theft, he met Johnny Bragg, the founder of the Prisonaires vocal group. After leaving prison, Colbert recorded a single under his own name for the small Sur-Speed label, before returning to Memphis. There he was heard singing in a street corner group by David Porter of Stax Records. After the plane crash that claimed the lives of Otis Redding and four members of The Bar-Kays, Colbert joined the reconstituted group as lead singer, and performed with them for several months, but did not record.

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In 1968, after Sam & Dave had moved from Stax to Atlantic Records, Porter and his songwriting and production partner Isaac Hayes decided to put together a new vocal group of two men and two women. They recruited Blackfoot, together with Norman West, Anita Louis, and Shelbra Bennett, to form The Soul Children. Between 1968 and 1978, The Soul Children had 15 hits on the R&B chart, including three that crossed over to the Billboard Hot 100, and recorded seven albums.

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The Soul Children disbanded in 1979. Blackfoot worked with bands in the Memphis area, and recorded solo for the local Prime Cut label. In 1983, he began working again with writer and producer Homer Banks, with whom he had recorded with The Soul Children. He recorded "Taxi", a song originally written for Johnnie Taylor but not recorded by him. Blackfoot's record rose to no. 4 on the R&B chart and no. 90 on the pop chart, also reaching no. 48 in the UK.

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Colbert recorded several albums, and had several more R&B hits on Banks' Sound Town label before moving to the Edge label formed by Al Bell in 1986. In 1987, he had another significant hit, "Tear Jerker", a duet with Ann Hines, reaching no. 28 on the R&B chart. He later moved to the Basix label, continuing to release albums into the new millennium.

In 2007, Blackfoot and West reformed the Soul Children, with Hines and fourth member Cassandra Graham. In 2010, Blackfoot appeared as part of David Porter's music revue.

J. Blackfoot died of pancreatic cancer on November 30, 2011.

Albums

  • City Slicker (Sound Town, 1983)
  • Physical Attraction (Sound Town, 1984)
  • U-Turn (Edge, 1987)
  • Loveaholic (Basix, 1991)
  • Room Service (Basix, 1993)
  • Reality (Basix, 1995)
  • This Christmas (Basix, 1997)
  • Stealing Love (Basix, 1997)
  • Having An Affair (Basix, 1999)
  • At His Best (Basix, 1999)
  • Same Place Same Time (Basix, 2001)
  • It Ain't Over Til It's Over (JEA Music, 2006)
  • Woof Woof Meow (JEA Music, 2009)
  • Soles Of My Shoes (Locobop, 2009)
  • References

    J. Blackfoot Wikipedia


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