Fans of the renowned soul band Maze, founded by the late Frankie Beverly, will be delighted that TMF (The Music Forever), consisting entirely of former Maze members and featuring singer Chris Walker, ...

Let’s get one thing settled off the top: TMF, the sextet playing a show with vocal group The Whispers at Township Auditorium Nov. 22, is not a tribute band. Sure, they play the silky soul music of ...

Soul singer Frankie Beverly, the lead vocalist and co-founder of the soul-funk band Maze, has died. He was 77. Beverly’s family announced his death Wednesday in a Facebook post but did not include ...

NEW ORLEANS — In a sea of white in the 6th Ward, New Orleansians celebrated the life of Frankie Beverly, the frontman of the iconic band MAZE, with a mixture of joy and pain. The sheer number of ...

Picture a gathering of happy Black people: laid-back, smiling, content and unconcerned (however briefly) with any of life’s problems. The occasion may be a family member’s graduation from high school ...

Subscribe to The St. Louis American‘s free weekly newsletter for critical stories, community voices, and insights that matter. Sign up Frankie Beverly spent more than five decades as the frontman for ...

NEW ORLEANS — Frankie Beverly, who with his band Maze inspired generations of fans with his smooth, soulful voice and lasting anthems including “Before I Let Go,” has died. He was 77. His family said ...

Frankie Beverly, a singer-songwriter whose smooth baritone and exuberant soul-funk anthems — about love and harmony, joy and pain — helped make his band Maze one of the most enduring acts in R&B, died ...

Singer Frankie Beverly led the soul group Maze through a number of R&B hits in the 1980s. Beverly died on Tuesday at the age of 77. MAZE FEATURING FRANKIE BEVERLY: (Vocalizing). SIDNEY MADDEN, BYLINE: ...

MAZE FEATURING FRANKIE BEVERLY: (Vocalizing). SIDNEY MADDEN, BYLINE: For over 50 years, Frankie Beverly's voice kept fans dancing. (SOUNDBITE OF ARCHIVED NPR BROADCAST) FRANKIE BEVERLY: That is ...

FRANKIE BEVERLY: That is unquestionably the favorite part of this whole thing to me. MADDEN: That's Beverly in an interview with NPR in 2005. (SOUNDBITE OF SONG, "BEFORE I LET GO") MAZE FEATURING ...