Biography
Nytro
Effective period / Period of releases: 1977 - 1979
Members: Chris Powell, LaMorris Payne, Earnest Reed, Kenneth Scott, Theodore Willingham, Robert Justice, Ronald A. Smith, John Jackson (12), Benjamin Wilber, Daniel Smithson
American R&B/Funk group from Ohio, produced by Norman Whitfield. Released two albums in the late 1970s: Nytro - Nytro in 1977, and Nytro - Return To Nytropolis in 1979. While Nytro consisted of some very gifted musicians and writers, the group disbanded in 1980. Various group members also regularly worked as session musicians on releases by other Whitfield Records artists, Rose Royce, Junior Walker, Willie Hutch, Stargard, etc.).