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Biography
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Curtis Mayfield
Real name: Curtis Lee Mayfield
Effective period / Period of releases: 1970 - 2019
American singer, guitarist, songwriter and producer.Born: 3 June 1942 in Chicago, Illinois, USA.
Died: 26 December 1999 in Roswell, Georgia, USA (aged 57).
Co-founder of R&B vocal group The Impressions in the late 1950s. He left The Impressions in 1970 to embark on a solo career and co-founded the record label Curtom, alongside Eddie Thomas.
Father of Kirk Mayfield.
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