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 founded by Northern soul DJ Richard Searling and Soul Bowl owner John Anderson. In 1989 DJ, Author & Journalist Ralph Tee joined the label, which both he and Searling run to this day.

Label history

In 1986 Expansion released its first twelve inch record with the catalogue ref: EXPAND1 (in 1986) - "Love Me Anyway" by US band WQBC (via a distribution deal with PRT).

In 2010 Expansion released EXPAND100 ("Weatherman" by Adriana Evans).

At various times in its 25 year history artists that have signed to Expansion have included Leon Ware, Stephanie Mills, Leroy Hutson, Angie Stone, Gwen McCrae
Gwen McCrae
Gwen McCrae is an American R&B singer, best known for her March, 1975 hit "Rockin' Chair".-Career:...

, Howard Hewett, Keni Burke, Lenny Williams, Rick James, Ronnie McNeir, Evelyn ‘Champagne’ King, Maysa to name a few.

Current/former artists

  • Adriana Evans
    Adriana Evans
    Adriana Evans, is an American R&B/soul singer-songwriter. She was born 1974 in San Francisco, California and was one of the first neo soul artists in the 1990's, along with Erykah Badu, D'Angelo and Maxwell...

  • Dira
  • Frank McComb
    Frank McComb
    Frank McComb is a soul singer and keyboardist. Often compared to Donny Hathaway and Stevie Wonder, McComb has collaborated with many renowned recording artists including Prince, Chaka Khan, Teddy Pendergrass, Gerald Levert, and Teena Marie.- Early career :Frank McComb began his career in February...

  • Leon Ware
    Leon Ware
    Leon Ware is a soul music singer, songwriter and producer. Best known for crafting the hit album, I Want You, originally recorded for Ware, until friend and Motown icon Marvin Gaye was assigned to the album in 1976...

  • Maysa Leak
    Maysa Leak
    Maysa Leak is an American jazz singer better known by her mononym Maysa. She is well known by fans of smooth jazz both for her solo work and for her work with the British band Incognito.-Biographical sketch:...

  • Stephanie Mills
    Stephanie Mills
    Stephanie Dorthea Mills is an American R&B and soul singer, and a former Broadway star.-Career:Mills began her career appearing in her first play at the age of nine. Two years later, Mills won Amateur Night at the Apollo Theater a record six times...

  • Keni Burke
    Keni Burke
    Kenneth M. Burke , better known as Keni Burke, is an American R&B, soul, funk, and jazz singer, songwriter, record producer, and multi-instrumentalist who began his career as a member of the 1970s soul outfit, the Five Stairsteps.-Five Stairsteps:As a member of the Five Stairsteps, Burke wrote the...

  • Lenny Williams
    Lenny Williams
    Leonard Charles "Lenny" Williams is an American singer known for his work in the R&B and soul music genres. During the 1970s, he was the lead vocalist for Tower of Power...

  • Helen Baylor
    Helen Baylor
    Helen Baylor is an American gospel singer.Baylor was born in Tulsa, Oklahoma and raised in Los Angeles, where she first performed as a secular nightclub act. She opened for Aretha Franklin, Stevie Wonder, and B.B. King while still in her teens, and performed in the musical Hair...

  • Cool Million
    Cool Million
    Cool Million was a detective drama aired in the United States by NBC as an element in its "wheel series" The NBC Wednesday Mystery Movie during its 1972-73 schedule....

  • Angie Stone
    Angie Stone
    Angie Stone is an American R&B and soul singer-songwriter, record producer, and occasional actress. She has been nominated for three Grammy Award. She is more successful on the charts R&B charts, with four Top 10 albums, forms including a number one album and 10 singles on the R&B chart,...

  • Howard Hewett
    Howard Hewett
    Howard Hewett is an American R&B and gospel singer and former lead vocalist of the R&B group Shalamar.Raised in Akron, Ohio, Hewett moved to Los Angeles. He would eventually meet Soul Train dancer and future first wife Rainey Riley-Cunningham, then a secretary of the show's creator and original...

  • Jean Carne
    Jean Carne
    Jean Carn is an American jazz and pop singer known for her unique vocalising and her impressive interpretative and improvisational skills...

  • Ronnie McNeir
    Ronnie McNeir
    Ronnie McNeir is an American singer and songwriter born Lewis Ronald McNeir on December 14, 1951 in Camden, Alabama. As a solo artist, he recorded for the De-to, RCA, Prodigal, Motown, Capitol, Expansion and Motor City labels, recording his first song when he was seventeen...

  • Leroy Hutson
    Leroy Hutson
    Leroy Hutson is an American soul and R&B singer, songwriter, arranger, producer and instrumentalist, best known as former lead singer of the R&B band, which came to fame vocal group, The Impressions....

  • Trina Broussard
    Trina Broussard
    Trina Broussard is a R&B singer and songwriter. Trina Broussard began career in 1997 when she covered Minnie Riperton's song Inside My Love. A year later in 1998, Broussard signed a record contract with Jermaine Dupri's label So So Def, later leave after first album was stalled...

  • Evelyn 'Champagne' King
  • Rick James
    Rick James
    James Ambrose Johnson, Jr. , better known by his stage name Rick James, was an American singer, songwriter, musician and record producer. James was a popular performer in the late 1970s and 1980s, scoring four number-one hits on the U.S. R&B charts performing in the genres of funk and R&B...


12" Discography

  • EXPAND 1 WQBC: Love Me Anyway
  • EXPAND 2 ANDREW BARRAX: Just Can’t Seem To Forget
  • EXPAND 3 LEO’S SUNSHIPP: Give Me The Sunshine
  • EXPAND 4 CHAS: For Your Love
  • EXPAND 5 CLARENCE MANN I’ll Be Around
  • EXPAND 6 RONNIE McNEIR: Follow Your Heart
  • EXPAND 7 GENERAL CROOK: Mainsqueeze
  • EXPAND 8 JAMES KING: Memory
  • EXPAND 9 CURTIS REED: Exit 23
  • EXPAND 10 LESLIE DRAYTON: Dreamer
  • EXPAND 11 RONNIE MCNEIR: I’m So In Love With You Baby
  • EXPAND 12 JAMES KING: Storyteller
  • EXPAND 15 DUTCH ROBINSON: Low Down
  • EXPAND 16 SNOW : Every Time You’re Around
  • EXPAND 17 RONNIE McNEIR: Searching
  • EXPAND 18 GLAZE: Promises
  • EXPAND 19 HELEN BAYLOR: There’s No Greater Love
  • EXPAND 20 HELEN BAYLOR: Oasis
  • EXPAND 21 LEON WARE: Shoulda Been You
  • EXPAND 22 AJA: Shine
  • EXPAND 23 CALVIN BROOKS: My Favourite Thing
  • EXPAND 24 LEROY HUTSON: Share Your Love
  • EXPAND 25 CORNELL BROWN: 5 Minutes Of Love Talk
  • EXPAND 26 HELEN BAYLOR: Victory
  • EXPAND 27 BILLY & SARAH GAINES: I Found Someone
  • EXPAND 28 JOSIE JAMES: Win Your Love
  • EXPAND 29 MATT COVINGTON: We Got One
  • EXPAND 30 VERNESSA MITCHEL: Be For Real
  • EXPAND 31 SOUL SAUCE SAMPLER
  • EXPAND 32 JOSIE JAMES: Morning Glow
  • EXPAND 33 CHRIS BALLIN: Stay Away From You
  • EXPAND 34 FRESH AIR: Miss You
  • EXPAND 35 LORENZO: Tic Toc
  • EXPAND 36 GWEN McCRAE: I Can Only Think of You
  • EXPAND 37 EL COCO: One Step Back For Love
  • EXPAND 38 GARY TAYLOR: A.P.B.
  • EXPAND 39 BILLY & SARAH GAINES: Love’s The Key
  • EXPAND 40 VICTOR HAYNES: Caught Up
  • EXPAND 41 DENNIS AUSTIN: I’ll Shine For You
  • EXPAND 42 RICK WEBB: Think About It
  • EXPAND 43 THE VALENTINE BROTHERS: This Kind of Love
  • EXPAND 44 BILLY VALENTINE: Ja Miss Me
  • EXPAND 45 SOUL SAUCE SAMPLER VOL.3
  • EXPAND 46 JAMARIAH: Beverly
  • EXPAND 47 INGRAM: My Sabrina Tequina
  • EXPAND 48 KYMIZTRE: Come Share Your Love
  • EXPAND 49 DAWKINS & DAWKINS: Miracle
  • EXPAND 50 JOUS: Another Lonely Night
  • EXPAND 51 VICTOR HAYNES: Don’t Want Nobody Else
  • EXPAND 52 GARY TAYLOR: Restless
  • EXPAND 53 GARY: Rockin U Tonite
  • EXPAND 54 SOUL SAUCE SAMPLER VOL.4
  • EXPAND 55 HOWARD HEWETT: This Love Is Forever
  • EXPAND 56 TRINA PERRY: I Can’t Get Enough
  • EXPAND 57 TERRY GARMON: Anyway
  • EXPAND 58 EVELYN ‘CHAMPAGNE’ KING: I Think About You
  • EXPAND 59 NICOLE JACKSON: I Like
  • EXPAND 60 SOUL SAUCE SAMPLER VOL.5
  • EXPAND 61 JIVE: Jive
  • EXPAND 62 VOICES IN CONTROL E.P
  • EXPAND 63 REBBIE JACKSON E.P.
  • EXPAND 64 SYLVIA STRIPLIN
  • EXPAND 65 RONDEY MANNSFIELD Call Me
  • EXPAND 66 KENI BURKE I Need Your Love/Indigenous Love
  • EXPAND 67 KASHIF: Good Ol’ Days/Bed You Down
  • EXPAND 68 PHILLIPPE: Listen To Me
  • EXPAND 69 PATTERSON TWINS: I Need Your Love
  • EXPAND 70 KUH LEDESMA: rReaming
  • EXPAND 71 LEW KIRTON: Heaven In The Afternoon
  • EXPAND 72 HOLLOWAY: Everything You Do
  • EXPAND 73 ROBBIE DANZIE (Love) Undeniable
  • EXPAND 74 ATLANTIC STARR: You
  • EXPAND 75 GERRY DeVEAUX Front Of The Line
  • EXPAND 76 JIMMY COBB So Nobody Else Can Hear
  • EXPAND 77 LENNY WILLIAMS Gotta Lotta Luv
  • EXPAND 78 MAYSA LEAK The Bottle
  • EXPAND 79 WIZDOM I'm So In Love With You/DeBOUSE Every Fellas Girl
  • EXPAND 80 ANDRE DE LANG Could You Be My Favourite Girl
  • EXPAND 81 MYSTIC MERLIN Mr. Magician
  • EXPAND 82 4 BELOW ZERO My Baby's Got E.S.P.
  • EXPAND 83 RENE & ANGELA: Secret Rendezvous
  • EXPAND 84 SHEREE BROWN: It’s A Pleasure
  • EXPAND 85 FREEDOM: Get Up & Dance
  • EXPAND 86 KLOUD 9: On Kloud 9 EP
  • EXPAND 87 MAYSA: Family Affair/The Bottle
  • EXPAND 88 KLOUD 9 EP
  • EXPAND 89 LONNIE HILL: Galveston Bay/Cold Winter In The Ghetto
  • EXPAND 90 CARMEN RODGERS: The Way/Dream
  • EXPAND 91 ALYSON WILLIAMS: Soft & Warm
  • EXPAND 92 STEPHANIE MILLS: Born For This EP
  • EXPAND 93 RICK JAMES Taste (Withdrawn)
  • EXPAND 94 EVERYDAY PEOPLE EP
  • EXPAND 95 HOPE COLLECTIVE: Give And Let Live
  • EXPAND 96 STEPHANIE MILLS: Free (Master At Work remixes)
  • EXPAND 97 DIPLOMATS OF SOUL: Someday
  • EXPAND 98 MAYSA: Runnin’ (Original/Reel People Remixes)
  • EXPAND 99 KARL FRIERSON: Ten Minutes/Tall Green Grass
  • EXPAND 100 ADRIANA EVANS: Weatherman/Surrender
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