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courtesy of The Buddah Group - Curtis Mayfield Story intro page Curtis Mayfield 
Listen to the PowerhouseRadio.com production of The Curtis Mayfield Story featuring Curtis 10 minutes, 15 seconds The circumstances that brought Curtis Mayfield into his singing career, the flow of events that resulted in the creation of The Impressions, sound, in retrospect at least, like fateful moves on a large-scale board game. The game is set in the city of Chicago, where Curtis was born, June of 1942. Events started converging in the year 1956, shortly after fourteen year old Curtis and his family moved to Chicago's North Side. Curtis had left behind him on the West Side a group of his own called the Alphatones, but his new neighbor was Jerry Butler, several years older and an old friend from the time Jerry sang with a group in the church Curtis' grandmother headed. About the same time, three fellas from Chattanooga, Tennessee, moved into Chicago's North Side. Continued 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | Next |