Sisters Love was an American R&B and funk

Funk

Funk is a music genre that originated in the mid-late 1960s when African American musicians blended soul music, jazz and R&B into a rhythmic, danceable new form of music. Funk de-emphasizes melody and harmony and brings a strong rhythmic groove of electric bass and drums to the foreground...

 ensemble active in the late 1960s and early 1970s.

Sisters Love was founded in 1968 by former members of The Raelettes. Several members of Ray Charles

Ray Charles

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's backing ensemble quit the band at the same time and soon after organized into their own vocal group. They recorded their first single in 1968 for Los Angeles label Manchild Records and soon after signed with A&M Records

A&M Records

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. They remained on A&M for several years, appearing in the Willie Hutch

Willie Hutch

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-scored blaxploitation

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 film The Mack

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singing the funk

Funk

Funk is a music genre that originated in the mid-late 1960s when African American musicians blended soul music, jazz and R&B into a rhythmic, danceable new form of music. Funk de-emphasizes melody and harmony and brings a strong rhythmic groove of electric bass and drums to the foreground...

 song "Now Is the Time". They scored a hit single

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 in 1971 with the song "Are You Lonely?", which reached #27 on the Billboard R&B charts and #108 on the Billboard Singles Chart.

In 1972 the group left A&M and signed with MoWest Records, a Motown subsidiary. They toured with the Jackson Five and had a full-length scheduled for release in 1972, but this LP was shelved and the group disbanded in 1973; the recordings for the album remained unreleased until 2010.

Members

• Merry Clayton
  Merry Clayton
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• Jeannie Long
• Vermettya Royster
• Lillie Fort
• Gwen Berry
• Odia Coates