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Freddi Poole is an African-American singer, known best for her work with the Former Ladies of the Supremes.
Biography
Early Years
Raised in Los Angeles, she started her singing career in the church at the age of four, and got her first recording contract at the age of fourteen with the girl group "The Delicates." The quartet recorded several singles for the Challenge, Soultown, and Pulsar Record labels. Poole went on to become a founding member of the female trio: Wild Honey. R&B star Vesta Williams, and Marie Marsh were her groupmates. Ron Townson (of The Fifth Dimension) was their mentor. In 1976, the trio had the distinction of being the first act to release a single on the legendary T.K. Disco Records label. The group disbanded in the early '80s. Freddi's impressive list of musical associations include performances with Lola Falana, former Supreme Jean Terrell, Lisa Stansfield, Phyllis Hyman, Patti LaBelle, Ron Townsend, and Sammy Davis Jr.. Her television appearances include the Tonight Show, Merv Griffin, and the Arsenio Hall Show. Freddi gained recording experience with acts including Liza Minelli, Lou Rawls and Jermaine Jackson. She managed her own 12 piece band "The Motorcity Angels" and prior to joining Scherrie Payne and Lynda Laurence's group, Freddi was touring extensively with the legendary Motown songstress Gladys Knight.
Scherrie Payne and Lynda Laurence, Former Ladies of the Supremes
Freddi made her debut with the group in July 1996.
Their most recent song was 2006's "Sisters United (We're Taking Control)", which was debuted at the group's twentieth anniversary concert at The Music Box in Hollywood in July 2006. September saw the group depart for a tour of Australia.
In April 2007, the group were set to depart Los Angeles for a tour in Japan when, due to the death of her mother, Freddi was unable to make the tour. Rather than cancel the tour, Scherrie and Lynda called upon Joyce Vincent Wilson to temporarily join the group to round-out the trio. Likewise, in June of 2008, Joyce filled in for Laurence to round out the trio on a tour of the United Kingdom.
Recently, in an effort to no longer confuse unsuspecting concert-goers that Freddi Poole was ever a Supreme, the group has changed their billing from The FLOS to "Scherrie Payne and Lynda Laurence: Former Ladies of the Supremes".