MILLS BROTHERS, THE

MILLS BROTHERS, THE. Popular-music singers (fl. late 1920s to 1970s; orig. in Piqua, Ohio). They came from a musical family. The grandfather, Billy Mills , sang in the McMillen and Sourbeck Jubilee Singers (later called Stinson's Jubilee Singers), one of the first of the professional groups that emulated the Fisk Jubilee Singers of the 1870s. Their parents were musical, and the boys received their early musical training from their mother. They began singing professionally in 1922...