J. Blackfoot

J. Blackfoot was an American soul singer. A member of The Soul Children in the late 1960s and 1970s, he subsequently had a moderately successful solo career. His biggest hit was Taxi, which reached the charts in both the US and UK in 1984.

John Colbert was born in Greenville, Mississippi, moving as a child to Memphis, Tennessee with his family. Generally known as J. or Jay, he acquired the nickname Blackfoot as a child, for his habit of walking barefoot on the tarred sidewalks. In 1965, while spending some time in Tennessee State Penitentiary in Nashville for car theft, he met Johnny Bragg, the founder of the Prisonaires vocal group. After leaving prison, Colbert recorded a single under his own name for the small SurSpeed label, before returning to Memphis. There he was heard singing in a street corner group by David Porter of Stax Records. After the plane crash that claimed the lives of Otis Redding and four members of The BarKays, Colbert joined the reconstituted group as lead singer, and performed with them for several months, but did not record.

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