They are probably best known for their 1976 hit " Heaven Must Be Missing an Angel". Some were born in New Bedford, Massachusetts, and Providence, Rhode Island, and they would move back and forth between the two cities throughout their childhood. Tavares (also known as The Tavares Brothers) is an American R&B, funk and soul music group composed of five Cape Verdean-American brothers. Tiny Tavares also invited his grandson Anthony Paul Verville to sing on stage with him during a live family concert.Tavares at Harrah's Casino & Hotel, Atlantic City in 2015 (left to right: Chubby, Butch, Tiny and Ralph Tavares)Ĭhubby and the Turnpikes, The Tavares Brothers In early 2009, Tiny Tavares rejoined and is currently touring with the group.
In 1984, Ralph Tavares stepped down from the group, and Tiny left in the mid-1990s, but the other three brothers continued to tour. They had one last major hit, the ballad “A Penny for Your Thoughts”, for which they were nominated for a Grammy in 1982 their last major release was Words and Music in 1983.
At the start of the 1980s, Tavares left Capitol Records, signing with RCA. Later albums, such as Madam Butterfly and Supercharged, strayed from the disco format and were less successful on the pop chart (although they continued to have Top 10 R&B hits such as “Never Had a Love Like This Before” and the popular sociopolitical “Bad Times” written by British singer-songwriter Gerard McMahon). The soundtrack became one of the most successful in history, giving Tavares their only Grammy. Tavares recorded the Bee Gees song “More Than a Woman”, and their version reached the Pop Top 40 that year. This perception was reinforced by their appearance on the soundtrack to the film Saturday Night Fever in 1977. Many of their hits, however, underplayed their R&B background and gave the group the image of being a disco act. In 1977 they also recorded “I Wanna See You Soon”, a duet with Capitol labelmate Freda Payne which received airplay on BBC Radio 1 but failed to chart. “Minute” was followed by a string of hits: “Heaven Must Be Missing an Angel” (1976), “Don’t Take Away the Music” (1976), and “Whodunit” (1977, another #1 R&B hit). KC and The Sunshine Band was also on this tour. They parlayed this success into a spot as an opening act for The Jackson 5.
Tavares followed up that success with “Remember What I Told You to Forget”.ġ975 turned out to be their most successful year chartwise, with a Top 40 Pop album (In the City) and their biggest hit, the Top 10 Pop/#1 R&B smash “It Only Takes a Minute”, which was later successfully covered by both Jonathan King and Take That, and sampled by Jennifer Lopez. In 1974 Tavares had a #1 R&B hit with Hall & Oates’s “She’s Gone”, (which became a hit for Hall & Oates as well two years later). Their first album included their brother Victor, who sang lead on “Check it Out”, but dropped out of the group shortly afterward. By 1973, they had changed their name to Tavares and scored their first R&B Top 10 (Pop Top 40) hit with “Check it Out”, and soon began charting regularly on the R&B and pop charts. Future Aerosmith drummer Joey Kramer appeared as the “token white-guy drummer” in a later incarnation called The Turnpikes from the fall of 1969 until September of 1970, when he was invited to join Aerosmith.Ĭhubby and The Turnpikes signed with Capitol Records in 1967 and had a couple of local hit records including “I Know The Inside Story” in 1967 and “Nothing But Promises” in 1968. The Tavares brothers, whose parents were of Cape Verdean descent, started performing in 1959 as Chubby and the Turnpikes when the youngest brother was 9. They were inducted into the Rhode Island Music Hall of Fame in 2014. Born and raised in Providence, Rhode Island, they would later move to New Bedford, Massachusetts. Tavares (also known as The Tavares Brothers) are an American R&B, funk, and soul music group, composed of five Cape Verdean-American brothers.
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