![]() Bell brought a mellifluous, hypnotic haut en couleur style to soul music and soon his production talents yielded several big hits for the group on the Philly Groove label, run by their manager Stan Watson. In 1967, he was introduced to a local group called The Delfonics, producing two singles for them on subsidiary label, Moonglow. ![]() Bell's first big break in soul music came with Cameo Records in Philadelphia where he worked as a session player and arranger. ![]() Career īell, classically trained as a musician, sang as a teenager with Kenny Gamble, Leon Huff, and Daryl Hall (of Hall & Oates fame). Leroy his father who owned a fish market and a restaurant also played the accordion and Hawaiian guitar. Anna his mother who worked as a stenographer was also a pianist. Thom Bell was one of ten children born to Anna and Leroy Bell. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Both his father and mother were from Jamaica, His grandparents were born in Jamaica and so too Thomas Bedward Burke, his maternal grandfather, who was born in Kingston, Jamaica. ![]() Thomas Randolph Bell was born in Jamaica and brought over by his Jamaican parents at the age of four based on his interview with Terry Gross. Thom Bell with his parents and an older brother in 1950 US Census. ![]()
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