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The sister of flutist <a href="spotify:artist:2Mb147hrrMIoAy425UZkhv">Hubert</a>, saxophonist <a href="spotify:artist:4yh5g0DWkL6kRlCH1FPAvC">Ronnie</a>, and vocalist <a href="spotify:artist:6iA5wBxxMxUMr9a4fnJd34">Debra</a>, Eloise Laws was born in 1949, in Houston, TX. She began recording for <a href="spotify:artist:3ig4Yf8S2Bjq2yVsiayKM0">Holland-Dozier-Holland</a>'s Music Merchant label and had a couple singles released in 1972-1973: "Tighten Him Up" and "Love Factory." When the famous songwriting team folded Music Merchant, they signed Laws to Invictus. They released a few singles and her first LP, 1977's Ain't It Good Feeling Good. Due to mismanagement, Invictus folded and Laws jumped to ABC to record Eloise, released later that year. <a href="spotify:artist:2Dk9O4J8UBA3dtuy9CtUcz">Linda Creed</a>, who co-produced the album, produced 1980's Eloise Laws, released on Liberty. All in Time, for Capitol, followed two years later. During this phase of her career, she was also featured on a number of albums by her contemporaries, including Harvey Mason's Funk in a Mason Jar, <a href="spotify:artist:3isYg6esLI9mPQ5IzXp5lD">Aquarian Dream</a>'s Fantasy, <a href="spotify:artist:0ZjB2OpMQL3LKJyEdeIz7o">Lee Oskar</a>'s Before the Rain, <a href="spotify:artist:6gc6oo3u2f7SqTd4mhe81O">Ahmad Jamal</a>'s One, and several releases by her siblings. She went inactive as a solo artist until the late '90s, when she released The Key (1999) and Secrets (2003) on her brother <a href="spotify:artist:2Mb147hrrMIoAy425UZkhv">Hubert</a>'s Scepterstein label. She spent part of the time away from the studio establishing herself in the theater, even co-writing and taking the original lead role in the Tony-nominated It Ain't Nothin' But the Blues. While her recordings have deserved much more recognition than they've been given, the level of notoriety for her stage work -- including several nominations and awards throughout the years -- has been more fitting. ~ Andrew Hamilton, Rovi
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