Willie Clarke (songwriter)

Willie Clarke
Anita Ward, Raphael Munnings, and Willie Clarke at a film festival showing The Record Man
Background information
Born
United States
GenresRhythm and blues, soul
OccupationsSongwriter, musician, record label owner
Websitewillieclarke.com (Archived)
Preview warning: Page using Template:Infobox musical artist with deprecated parameter "associated_acts". It should be removed.

Willie Clarke is an American musician and songwriter known for songs including "Clean Up Woman", "Rockin' Chair" and "Willing and Able."

Clarke and a college friend, Johnny Pearsall, started the record label Deep City, based out of Johnny's Records in Liberty City, Florida. It was the first African American owned independent record label in Florida.

Clarke was featured on the Miami 2015 episode of the CNN television show Anthony Bourdain: Parts Unknown.

This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is available under Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 unless otherwise noted. Additional terms may apply for the media files.