Yarbrough & Peoples

Yarbrough & Peoples burst onto the music scene with the million-selling single "Don't Stop the Music," a sinewy slab of synth-based R&B/funk that was ahead of its time and had a far-reaching influence in the years to come. The sizzling track held down the number one R&B spot for five weeks and hit number 19 pop on Billboard's Hot 100 in 1981. The duo released one album for Mercury, and then three for Total Experience, from 1980 through 1985. Calvin Yarbrough and Alisa Peoples met when they were small children growing up in Dallas, Texas. They took lessons from the same music ...