Contents
1 Musical solace
2 First recording; first gold record
3 Solo career
4 Recent years
5 External links
Musical solace
The mid-1950s had a profound impact on Butler’s life. He grew up poor,
having lived in Chicago’s rough and tumble Cabrini Green housing complex.
Music and the church provided solace from a city that was as segregated as
those in the Deep South.[citation needed] He performed in a church choir with
Curtis Mayfield[citation needed]. As a teenager, Butler sang in a gospel quartet
called Northern Jubilee Gospel Singers along with Mayfield. Mayfield, a guitar
player, became the lone instrumentist for the six-member acappella group,
which later became The Impressions. Inspired by music icons Sam Cooke and
the Soul Stirrers, the Five Blind Boys of Mississippi and the Pilgrim Travelers[citation
needed], getting into the music business seemed inevitable.
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