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‘I Want To Know’: Sugar Pie DeSanto Starts Her Soulful Mission

Summary by uDiscover Music
In the glorious canon of Chess Records, other better-known names sometimes overshadow the wonderful work of New York-born soul songbird Sugar Pie DeSanto. But the lady born Umpeylia Balinton made some outstanding records for the label and continued to perform live into her 80s, based in her longtime home of Oakland, California. We’re remembering September 5, 1960 when, before she arrived on Chess, Sugar Pie made her US R&B chart debut with the t…
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uDiscover Music broke the news in on Friday, September 5, 2025.
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