Lester Chambers

Lester Chambers (born April 13, 1940) is an American recording artist, and former member and lead singer of the 1960s soul rock group The Chambers Brothers, who had the hit single, "Time Has Come Today".

Lester was born into a sharecropping family in a poor part of Mississippi. In addition to the parents, there were eight brothers and five sisters in the family. Lester and his three brothers started out singing at the Mount Calvary Baptist Church in Lee County. Older Brother George was drafted into the army in 1952. After his release he headed to California. And the other brothers followed him and by 1954, the four brothers were together in California.

As a member of the Chambers Brothers, he sang lead on the Chambers Brothers songs "All Strung Out Over You", "People Get Ready", "Uptown", "I Can't Turn You Loose", and "Funky". He also sang lead on "I Can't Stand It" and "A New Time – A New Day".

As a solo artist he released singles and albums, and teamed up with ex-Electric Flag bassist Harvey Brooks to form the Lester Chambers Harvey Brooks Band.

Chambers performs with his son Dylan as The New Chambers Brothers as part of the band Moonalice which is led by Roger McNamee.

Biography summary from English Wikipedia, photograph via Wikimedia Commons.