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The Sweet Inspirations

Formé en 1963

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The Sweet Inspirations est un groupe féminin de rhythm and blues américain formé par Cissy Houston, avec Dionne Warwick, qui le quitte en 1963. Doris Troy a aussi fait partie du groupe à sa formation, reconnue par la suite pour ses talents de choriste, notamment sur l'album The Dark Side of the Moon de Pink Floyd.

Le groupe signe chez Atlantic Records en 1967 et par la suite chez Stax Records en 1973. Il assure les chœurs sur les enregistrements des plus grandes vedettes du rhythm and blues, notamment Aretha Franklin, Esther Phillips, Wilson Pickett, Solomon Burke, elles accompagnent aussi le chanteur Van Morrison sur son tout premier album solo Blowin' Your Mind!, sur deux chansons Brown Eyed Girl et Midnight Special, sorti en 1967. On les retrouvera plus tard sur une compilation de Van Morrison sortie en 1974, TB Sheets. Les Sweet Inspirations élargissent leur audience et leur popularité en accompagnant Elvis Presley sur scène, à partir de 1969.

Les Sweet Inspirations obtiennent leur meilleure place dans les charts du magazine américain Billboard en 1968 en se classant 5e du Hot Soul Single avec Sweet Inspiration, composée par Dan Penn et Spooner Oldham. La chanson de Gilbert Bécaud Let It Be Me (Je t'appartiens) est un autre de leurs grands succès : 13e en 1967 du même classement.

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The Sweet Inspirations are an American R&B girl group from Newark, New Jersey, founded by American singer Cissy Houston. The group was mostly known for their work as backup singers on studio recordings for other popular music artists but were also a relatively successful group in their own right, earning several charted singles between 1967 and 1970.

Formed by Houston in 1963 in Newark under the informal title "The Girls", they were the offshoot of a previous group called the Gospelaires, founded by Houston's nieces and future soul stars Dionne and Dee Dee Warwick, along with Sylvia Shemwell. Under Houston's direction, the group would include Shemwell, Myrna Smith and Estelle Brown.

As session singers, they participated in hit records by Aretha Franklin, Solomon Burke, Otis Redding, Jimi Hendrix, Van Morrison, Dusty Springfield and Elvis Presley. Signed to Atlantic Records in 1967, the group had their biggest hit with the aptly titled "Sweet Inspiration", which won them a Grammy Award nomination, making them just the third all-female vocal group in history to earn a Grammy nomination. They were also known for their rendition of "I'm Blue", which was the b-side of "Sweet Inspiration" and later was sampled famously by Salt-N-Pepa's hit "Shoop".

Following their first couple of months performing with Presley in Las Vegas, Houston left the group to raise her family and forge a successful solo career while the rest of the group carried on with Presley and as a recording act.

The original Sweet Inspirations were inducted into the second class of the National Rhythm and Blues Hall of Fame in 2014.

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