In 1968, inside Stax’s walls, a young singer named Linda Lyndell cut a song that would echo across decades “What a Man.” Raised on gospel and R&B, she sang with the fire of the Chitlin’ Circuit and brought it straight to Memphis. The record hit the R&B charts, but backlash in the South was fierce a white woman singing soul drew threats so real she walked away from music entirely. For 25 years, her voice was silent. Until 1993, when Salt-N-Pepa and En Vogue flipped her chorus into “Whatta Man”, o
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