Edwin Starr

(incomplete). Dre associate (and former keyboardist for The Roots), Scott Storch which went #1 on the Billboard Hot 100 and #24 in the UK. Starr died of a heart attack at the age of 61 in his home near Nottingham. Cuban Link and Triple Seis left the group after Big Pun's death but Fat Joe, Remy, Tony Sunshine, Prospect and Armageddeon remained and released their second album True Story in 2004 with the summer hit "Lean Back" produced by Dr. Starr resurfaced briefly in 2002 to record a song with the British musician Jools Holland, singing "Snowflake Boogie" on Holland's compact disc More Friends. Tragedy struck the crew when Big Pun died of a heart attack in 2000. In 1979 Starr reappeared on the charts with a pair of disco hits, titled "(Eye-To-Eye) Contact" and "Happy Radio". Fat Joe and Big Pun were the members in the crew who had the most successful solo spots, Remy Martin was the only female rapper in the group, and Tony Sunshine was famous for singing on all the Terror Squad songs.

Starr continued to record music into the 1970s, most notably recording the song "Hell Up In Harlem" for the 1974 movie, Hell Up In Harlem, which was the sequel to Black Caesar, a earlier hit with a soundtrack by James Brown. They released their self titled debut album in Terror Squad The Album in 1999 with their hit "What Cha Gon Do" which was mostly done by Big Pun. He moved to England in 1973. The members were Fat Joe, the late and great Big Pun, Cuban Link, Prospect, Armageddeon, Triple Seis, Tony Sunshine and Remy Martin. (Incidentally, that album - War and Peace - featured another song of very similar construction titled "Stop the War Now", which was a minor hit in its own right.). The Terror Squad is a Latino Rap crew from The Bronx, New York that is also known as Big Pun and Fat Joe's crew. The #1 hit became an anthem for the antiwar movement, and is now commonly found in such diverse places as movie soundtracks and samples in hip hop music. True Story, 2004.

The biggest hit of his career, and the one which cemented his reputation as one of the great soul artists, was the anti-Vietnam War protest song "War (What Is It Good For)" (1970). Terror Squad, 1999. He recorded more soul music for the next three years before having an international chart-topper in "25 Miles" (1968), one of only two of his songs still heard today on oldies radio. The song which began his career was "Agent Double'O'Soul" (1965), a take-off on the James Bond films which were popular at the time. He lived in Detroit, Michigan in the 1960s and recorded at first for the small label Ric-Tic, and later for the famed Motown after it absorbed Ric-Tic.

In 1957 he formed the group The Future Tones. He was born with the name Charles Edwin Hatcher in Nashville, Tennessee. Edwin Starr (January 21, 1942 - April 2, 2003) was a soul music singer. "Snowflake Boogie" (w/Jules Holland) (2002).

"Get Up" (1980). "Happy Radio" (1979). "Contact" (1979). "Hell Up In Harlem" (1974).

"Easin' In (American Pimp Soundtrack) (1974). "Big Papa" (1974). "There You Go" (1973). "My Sweet Lord" (1971).

"Funky Music Sho Nuff Turns Me On" (1971). "War" (1970). "Time" (1970). "Stop the War Now" (1970).

"I Just Wanna Do My Thing" (1970). "I'm Still a Struggling Man" (1969). "25 Miles" (1968). "Grits Ain't Grocery" (1968).

"I Want My Baby Back" (1967). "Oh How Happy" (1966). "Headline News" (1966). "Back Street" (1966).

"Agent Double-O-Soul" (1965).