Reply With QuoteOh Brother! she's gonna be missed. I used to love to play her signature hit and show the younger generation where the famous loop came from (THINK ABOUT IT).
no other has felt the funk as her... :cry:
Gold Record [Level 7]
Lyn Collins, singer and James Brown Revue member, dead at 56
ALEX VEIGA
Associated Press
LOS ANGELES - Lyn Collins, whose funky vocals landed her a spot early in James Brown's stage show and the nickname "Female Preacher," has died. She was 56.
Collins, whose voice was also sampled in the 1980s hip-hop hit "It Takes Two," died of cardiac arrhythmia Sunday night at Huntington Memorial Hospital in Pasadena, her son Bobby Jackson said Monday.
"It was very sudden. Very unexpected," he said, adding that she arrived at the hospital Wednesday night.
Collins, who lived in Abilene, Texas, was visiting the Los Angeles area after having returned from a tour in Europe last month, Jackson said. She was due to start touring again next month.
Born in Dime Box, Texas, Collins took up singing as a teenager. At 14, she married a man who worked as the local promoter for the James Brown Revue. Brown heard Collins sing and in 1970 she was invited to join his traveling show.
Her powerful voice led Brown to nickname her the "Female Preacher," and two years later, she cut her first solo album, "Think (About It)."
In 1975, Collins released "Check Me Out If You Don't Know Me By Now."
Over the years, Collins' songs have also appeared in various compilations, but it was hip-hop duo Rob Base & D.J. E-Z Rock who exposed Collins' work to a new generation when they sampled one of her songs for their 1988 hit "It Takes Two."
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Gold Record [Level 7]
Oh Brother! she's gonna be missed. I used to love to play her signature hit and show the younger generation where the famous loop came from (THINK ABOUT IT).
no other has felt the funk as her... :cry:
Gold Record [Level 7]
Terrible News indeed. I still love her voice and that "Rock Me Again (x6)" cut. A female JB if their ever was one!
Indie Release [Level 4]
:( i feel very sad to hear this bad new......we must continu to share,play and listen her music all over the world....
"take your time and make me love you good...."
R.I.P lynn
Acetate [Level 1]
:( lemme say 2005 was a deep devastating and mostly lil' overshadowing. Man we lost so many greats in the music biz: Luther Vandross, Tyrone Davis, Lyn Collins, Jimmy Smith, Eugene Record, Willie Hutch, to name a few on my list.
She was a fine, strong and positive woman with alot of sense alot of creativity. God may her rest in peace. Her music, her legacy, her voice, and her preach is never been forgotten, nor stolen, nor taken away, nor disappearing, for example, IT NEVER DIES, lemme say 1 'mo time, IT NEVER DIES!!!
Platinum Record [Level 8]
I'm a huge James Brown et al. fan (The JBs, Bobby Byrd, etc...) and didn't even hear that Lyn Collins died. Thanks for resurrecting this thread. She was a great singer. I believe she was the last of the successful James Brown revue female singers, making hits as late as '75 for the Godfather of Soul. Wasn't she in that documentary about James Brown that aired on PBS or A&E recently?
She still had the pipes for singing, if you go by the concert she did only a month before her death:
Put It On The Line:
http://www.lyncollins-video1.ch.vu/
Think:
http://www.lyncollins-video2.ch.vu/
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