I know there was a thread about young acts a while back, but I wanna do a thread on family acts that came before and after the Jacksons, talk about any family act, with the exception of the Jacksons (which was very popular thread I plan to revive pretty soon). You could talk about acts like The Sylvers, The Jets, Five Star, The Moffats, etc.

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Andrews Sisters

The Emotions

Donny & Marie

Mandrell Sisters

The Jets

Lennon Sisters

The Carpenters

Gap Band

5 Star

Jackson Sisters (I Believe In Miracles)

Brothers Johnson

Sister Sledge

Isley Brothers

Tavares

The Sylvers

The Judds

Clark Sisters

Pointer Sisters

Zapp (some of them were related)

Bee Gees

Doobie Brothers

Without the Isleys, there wouldn't have been a Stairsteps/Jacksons...

The Wayans

The Millers (Master P, nem')

Timmy84 said:

Without the Isleys, there wouldn't have been a Stairsteps/Jacksons...

They are their biological parents?

LiLi1992 said:

Timmy84 said:

Without the Isleys, there wouldn't have been a Stairsteps/Jacksons...

They are their biological parents?

Even farther back.

The Berry Brothers and the Nicholas Brothers of 1930-1940s dance fame

LiLi1992 said:

Timmy84 said:

Without the Isleys, there wouldn't have been a Stairsteps/Jacksons...

They are their biological parents?

What I meant to say was the Isleys were the "first family of soul music" before those two...

LittleBLUECorvette said:

LiLi1992 said:

They are their biological parents?

Even farther back.

The Berry Brothers and the Nicholas Brothers of 1930-1940s dance fame

Mills Brothers

Timmy84 said:

LittleBLUECorvette said:

Even farther back.

The Berry Brothers and the Nicholas Brothers of 1930-1940s dance fame

Mills Brothers

The Marx Brothers.

Debarge

The Winans

Soul For Real (at least the one single Candy Rain)

Out of Eden (now defunct group of sisters who sang Christian music)

The Hawkins Family (Edwin, Walter, Tremaine, etc.)

Toni Tony Tone (they weren't SIBLINGS but they were family)

datdude said:

Debarge

The Winans

Soul For Real (at least the one single Candy Rain)

Out of Eden (now defunct group of sisters who sang Christian music)

The Hawkins Family (Edwin, Walter, Tremaine, etc.)

Toni Tony Tone (they weren't SIBLINGS but they were family)

Aren't Raphael and Dwayne brothers?

Forgot to mention DeBarge/Switch...

Timmy84 said:

datdude said:

Debarge

The Winans

Soul For Real (at least the one single Candy Rain)

Out of Eden (now defunct group of sisters who sang Christian music)

The Hawkins Family (Edwin, Walter, Tremaine, etc.)

Toni Tony Tone (they weren't SIBLINGS but they were family)

Aren't Raphael and Dwayne brothers?

And a few others are cousins.

These guys by far

Timmy84 said:

Aren't Raphael and Dwayne brothers?

Yeah, and Timothy is their cousin. On their debut album, Raphael is Wiggins, not Saadiq.

Is Marc from Levert related to the Levert brothers? Some say he was their cousin and others say he's not related at all.

MickyDolenz said:

Timmy84 said:

Aren't Raphael and Dwayne brothers?

Yeah, and Timothy is their cousin. On their debut album, Raphael is Wiggins, not Saadiq.

Is Marc from Levert related to the Levert brothers? Some say he was their cousin and others say he's not related at all.

From looking at his "Unsung", Marc was just a family friend who attended Jehovah Witness churches together...

Timmy84 said:

MickyDolenz said:

Yeah, and Timothy is their cousin. On their debut album, Raphael is Wiggins, not Saadiq.

Is Marc from Levert related to the Levert brothers? Some say he was their cousin and others say he's not related at all.

From looking at his "Unsung", Marc was just a family friend who attended Jehovah Witness churches together...

I didn't know Eddie Levert was a JW.

MickyDolenz said:

Timmy84 said:

From looking at his "Unsung", Marc was just a family friend who attended Jehovah Witness churches together...

I didn't know Eddie Levert was a JW.

I'm not sure if it was just his wife Martha that was one or he joined too... but it's possible.

JabarR74 said:

I know there was a thread about young acts a while back, but I wanna do a thread on family acts that came before and after the Jacksons, talk about any family act, with the exception of the Jacksons (which was very popular thread I plan to revive pretty soon). You could talk about acts like The Sylvers, The Jets, Five Star, The Moffats, etc.

The McCrarys

The Jackson Sisters

The Sylvers

Five Star

The Isley Brothers

Isley Jasper Isley

Tom Tom Club

Body

DeBarge

The Staple Singers

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We can NOT have a thread about family acts without mentioning Ziggy Marley & The Melody Makers.

And lets not forget about their half-brother Damian Marley:

We also can not forget about The Pointers Sisters, Sister Sledge, and/or Ann & Nancy Wilson of Heart.

^^The OP did say name acts you like, not just name people because they're family and you don't know about their music. The Pointer Sisters & Sister Sledge has been mentioned above.

the whitehead bros - i'm assuming they are related, but not sure.

Jodeci

mancabdriver said:

the whitehead bros - i'm assuming they are related, but not sure.

Jodeci

When I first heard "Your Love is a 187" I think the deejay did say that they were sons of that late songwriter.

Jodeci, I forgot them. Two bands of brothers haha