Baby Huey

Baby Huey was the stage name of James Ramey, a singer from Chicago who led the band Baby Huey & the Baby Sitters in the late 1960s. Their sound was a raw, energetic mix of soul and funk, built around his distinctive voice and the group's tight playing. They released just one album, 1971's 'The Baby Huey Story,' which came out after his death.

That album included their version of 'A Change Is Gonna Come,' a song that became their best-known track. It's a soulful, pleading take that captured a particular moment. Other songs from their brief catalog, like 'Hard Times,' carried a similar gritty, emotional weight.

Baby Huey died in 1970 at 26. The band's work, especially that one album, found a later audience and has been sampled by hip-hop producers, giving his voice a second life in a different musical context.