GREEN, AL. Rhythm n
blues singer ( in Forrest City, Arkansas). His family moved to Grand Rapids, Michigan, when he was a child. He obtained his musical education in the public schools of that city. When he was nine years old, he and his brothers formed a gospel quartet that sang in local churches. During his high-school years he organized a rhythm n
blues group,
Al Green
and the Creations, which toured in the South and Midwest. He made...