But if there’s anything that’s made the group legends, it’s the fact that they turned another group into the biggest band of all time. And ever since their last R&B hit in 1989, the Isley Brothers have been hanging on in the “oldies but goodies” category. They even crossed over into soul-flavored remakes of rock hits like Summer Breeze. Rudolph Isley, Ronald Isley, Marvin Isley, Ernie Isley, Chris Jasper, Neil Portnow. They were the R&B band that introduced Jimmy James (but you know him better as Jimi Hendrix) and the funk band that finally hit the pop Top 5 with It’s Your Thing and Fight the Power. The Isley Brothers have done it all – they were the pre-Motown, pre-Beatles vocal trio that recorded the first versions of Shout and Twist and Shout.
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and Sally Bell Isley: O'Kelly Jr., Rudolph and Ronald, and recorded with small labels singing doo-wop and rock 'n' roll. The band were formed in Cincinnati, Ohio in 1954, from the three elder sons of O'Kelly Isley, Sr. The group's lineups have ranged from a quartet to a trio to a sextet and are currently a duo. Over the years, the act has performed in a variety of genres, including doo-wop, R&B, rock 'n' roll, soul, funk, disco, urban adult contemporary and hip-hop soul. In 2006, they reached the Top Ten of the Billboard album chart for the ninth time.
Their music has developed from 1950's R&B, through Motown soul to 1970's funk, and they have had long-running success on the Billboard charts, being the only act to appear in the Top 40 in six separate decades. The founding and central members were O'Kelly Isley, Jr., Rudolph Isley and Ronald Isley. The Isley Brothers (pronounced /ˈaɪzliː/ IZE-lee) are a successful and long-running American group consisting of different line-ups of six brothers, and a brother-in-law, Chris Jasper.