Richmond Heights. Very interesting historic military veteran's area of Miami, Florida with a rich past in the world of music as well going all the way back to the early 1950's, and a lively gospel scene as evidenced in the newspaper clip below from the Miami Times in 1957 which talks about the Bethel Baptist Church, music nightly, with a guest preacher from Brooklyn.
The article is written by Ora D. Taylor, a local broker and sales associate of a realty company, in the Richmond Heights Flashes section of the paper
Miami Gospel scene, very significant. Sometimes for the talent it raised into popular entertainers, more often than not for talent that stayed in the community and performed and emoted for the love not the fame or the industry
The article also talks about The Martinettes, a local musical group, and the talent in the area looking for positive ways to spend leisure time
Plenty of talent and unique culture in the whole Down South region of Miami including South Miami, Coconut Grove (even though it is technically the city).
A nightclub in the south Dade area was the Club Downbeat, close by in
Goulds, where rapper Trick Daddy is from, and if you ever wonder where
he got his style and sound from, that's it.
Richmond
Heights, Naranja, Goulds, Homestead, Leisure City, Florida City, Perrine, Cutler Ridge, Redlands, all the way on down to Key Largo all connected throughout all the other parts of Miami Dade County as in this 2004 article from David Ovalle in the Miami Herald about the hip hop group Basic Vocab, with producer Tony Galvin from Richmond Heights
