BUTLER, JERRY (THE ICEMAN
). Rhythm n
blues singer ( in Sunflower, Mississippi). His family moved to Chicago, Illinois, in 1942. He sang in church choirs as a child, and when he was twelve years old became a member of the choir of the Traveling Souls Spiritual Church, in which
Curtis Mayfield
also sang. Later he and Mayfield sang together in a gospel group, The Modern Jubelaires, and in a rhythm n
blues group,
The Impressions
. He left The Impressions...