Cornelius Brothers And Sister Rose
R&B family group from Dania, Florida, USA. Their highly-infectious mid-tempo soft soul was heavily orchestrated, and was more typical of US northern cities than the south. This broke the mode of Miami-based music, which tended to be of the ‘deep soul’ variety. The original group, consisting of Edward (who wrote most of the songs), Carter and Rose Cornelius first recorded in 1971. They immediately hit with a million-seller, Treat Her Like A Lady, a US R&B Top 20 and pop number 3 hit. The next year they added a second sister, Billie Jo, and achieved their biggest hit, another million-seller, Too Late To Turn Back Now a US R&B number 5 and pop number 2 hit. Thereafter, each succeeding record did less well. Their last chart record was the minor placed R&B hit Since I Found My Baby in 1974. The group broke-up in 1976 when Carter joined a black Hebrew sect in Miami and adopted the name Prince Gideon Israel. He wrote, recorded and mixed the sect's music and videos for the next 15 years. He was working on a come-back song to re-enter the pop field when he died on 7 November 1991.