Tally Taliaferrow

Singer and guitarist, from The Bronx, New York, active beginning mid 1970s. Died May 18, 2015. The late Tally Taliaferrow, a pioneer of Black rock, was the longtime singer in the second (and best known) version of The Planets, one of New York City's great unsung legends, and his own band, The Heat. The Sovereign Lords was named after a Brooklyn street gang his grandfather was part of in the 1930s.