Madam CJ Walker
Berry Gordon
Marvin Gaye
George Clinton (Creating Funkadelic and Parliament, the whole Funk movement in the '70s and its transition into the 80s)
Prince
R Kelly
Marcus Garvey
Luther Vandross
Fela Kuti (Creating the conscious Afrobeat movement, meeting his wife from the States, and being a global icon)
Chuck Berry
Sister Rosetta Tharpe (Godmother of Rock and Roll)
Ike Turner et Tina Turner
Mariah Carey (Becoming a backup singer to being discovered as one of the greatest singers in her era)
Jay Z
Nas
Eddie Murphy (His emergence as a comedian, an actor and putting black actors on the spotlight)
George Washington Carver
BB King
Duke Ellington (The Harlem Renaissance needs a biopic)
Sam Cooke (The first black man to own his own masters)
Celia Cruz
Chaka Khan
Beyonce
Rakim
This is just a few....