Willie Clarke is an American musician and songwriter known for songs including "
Clean Up Woman", "Rockin' Chair" and "Willing and Able".
Clarke and a college friend, Johnny Pearsall, started the record label Deep City, based out of Johnny's Records in
Liberty City, Florida. It was the first
African American
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owned independent record label in Florida.
Clarke was featured on the Miami 2015 episode of the
CNN
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television show ''
Anthony Bourdain: Parts Unknown''.
Deep City Records
Deep City Records was a record label run out of a music store in the
Liberty City section of Miami. Clarke was one of the founders.
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TK Records
TK Records was an American independent record label founded by record distributor Henry Stone and Steve Alaimo in 1972. and based in Hialeah, Florida. The record label went bankrupt in 1981.
"TK" was inspired by the initials of sound engineer ...
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African-American songwriters
American male songwriters
Living people
American businesspeople
Soul musicians
Grammy Award winners
Year of birth missing (living people)
21st-century African-American people
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