Earl Scruggs
Earl Scruggs created the defining sound of bluegrass with his three-finger or Scruggs-style playing on the banjo.
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2009 Inductees
Clyde McPhatter
In 1945, when Clyde McPhatter was 12, his family moved from Durham, North Carolina to New York City where they joined Harlem’s 132nd Street Mount Lebanon Church and Clyde sang with the Mount Lebanon’s Singers.
Ben E King
Ben E. King is known as the lead vocalist for The Drifters on their hits “There Goes My Baby,” “This Magic Moment” and “Save The Last Dance For Me” and as a solo artist who recorded “Spanish Harlem” and “Stand By Me.”
George Clinton
George Clinton was born on July 22, 1941 in Kannapolis, North Carolina and later grew up in Plainfield, New Jersey, where he ran a barber salon; while there, inspired by Frankie Lymon and the Teenagers, he formed a doo wop group,
Max Roach
Artist Max Roach was born Maxwell Lemuel Roach on January 10, 1924 in Newland, North Carolina; died on August 16, 2007 in New York City.
Eddie Ray
Eddie Ray is an African-American who rose from a stock boy to a major record label executive and then became a key figure in a governmental body that makes major decisions on copyrights, the foundation of the of the entertainment industry.