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• Name: Johnnie Gee
• Genre: blues, pop, r&b, singer-songwriter
• Location: Milwaukee, WI, United States
• Johnnie Gee story is the stuff of which legends are made. It is a saga that began in America's heartland at age 13 in Milwaukee Wisconsin, where Johnnie Gee was born on September 29th, 1959 to Elgie and D.W Gee, into a family of seven brothers and sisters.
  
  When Mama Gee, herself a blues lover, noticed her sons' growing interest in music and performing, she devoted herself to the careful development of their nascent talents. Through hard work and dedication, Johnnie, Dewitt, Jerome, and other friends became ,The Exclusive Step By Step. The group began performing professionally in and around Milwaukee and Chicago in 1969; later that year, the siblings took their polished song-and-dance act  to New York's famed Brunswick Records. The Step By Step Band turned the place out, winning over Nat Tarnopol.
  
  The staff reaction was welcoming , the founder of the New York-based Brunswick Records, then the most successful R&B label around. Captivated by what they saw and heard, Nat signed the group immediately. Thus began one of the most successful runs by a recording group in soul, pop, R&B music history.
  
  Johnnie Gee was a major artist at age 13, and shared some of his best singing career years with Brunswick Records. home of the Chi- lites - Record Producers/Media/Friends: Dick Clark - Clive Davis -Tommy Matolla - Nat Tarnopol - Carl Davis - Classic "Time After Time" Featuring Lil Johnnie Gee (Age 9),
  
  Aretha Franklin - Barbara Acklin - Erma Franklin - Jackie Wilson - Lionel Hampton - Isaac Hayes - Johnnie Gee & "Step By Step" -Louis Armstrong - Count Basie - Little Richard - Bohannon - Billy Butler - Percy Mayfield - Young & Company - The Chi-Lites - Otis Clay - Tyrone Davis - The Eliminators - And many more Soul Icons.
  
  Sidetraxx Records is the only major Wisconsin based Label with classic catalog music, and owned by the Soul legend "Johnnie Gee".
  
  BRUNSWICK RECORDS WAS THE ONLY SOUL LABEL WITH ELITE ARTISTS FROM 1934 - 1989, THE ONLY MAJOR LABEL THAT STILL PUBLISH CLASSIC GOLDEN HITS.
  
  For more history visit www.myspace.com/johnniegee