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Louisiana native Roosevelt Nettles walked away from a promising recording/entertaining career more than 30 years ago and doesn't really know why. He grew up in New Orleans with seven siblings and sung professionally as a teenager in Mobile, AL, (where his late brother Willie Roy resided); he assembled and blew notes with the Flames, a doo wop group, before joining the Air Force in 1958 where he formed another non-recording group of doo woppers, the Enchanters. A member of Special Forces, Nettles received orders to go to an Air Force base in Chandler, AZ, then a base near Phoenix. He fell in love with Arizona and made it home after his military duties ended in 1962. In Phoenix he sung in bars, i.e. Stage Seven took on a manager and cut a demo his manager wrote that never got exposed.
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