Waiters joined southern soul blues artists such as Marvin Sease, Denise LaSalle and Willie Clayton on the Jackson based Malaco recording label. He is survived by his wife, Portia, and a daughter, Brittney. Before his recording career, he worked as a radio DJ and as an entertainer on military bases. Waiters was born and raised in San Antonio, Texas, where he honed is voice in both the church choir and in nightclubs beginning in the early 1970s. Waiters was popular for years on the blues festival and touring circuit across the south, thanks in part to his soulful party songs like 'Hole In The Wall' and 'The Smaller The Club'. A longtime performer on the famed Mississippi recording label Malaco Records, Waiters died early Thursday after a short battle with cancer, his booking agent's office confirmed. Soul and rhythm and blues singer Mel Waiters has died at the age of 58. Over the next ten years, Sease recorded a string of albums for London/Mercury (Breakfast, 1987 The Real Deal, 1989 Show Me What You Got, 1991) and the New York-based Jive (The Housekeeper, 1993 Do You Need a Licker?, 1994 Please Take Me, 1996) that sold consistently well, although none have yet matched the performance of Marvin Sease, which hit number 14 on Billboard's R&B chart and number 114 on the pop chart.Our new desktop experience was built to be your music destination. While shopping the LP, released on his own Early label, to record stores, Sease stumbled upon a contact who eventually got him a deal with Polygram, which re-released the LP on London/Mercury in 1987 with the addition of the newly recorded, ten-minute track 'Candy Licker.' 'Candy Licker' became an underground success on jukeboxes across the South it was too explicit for radio airplay, but audiences - especially female ones - flocked to see Sease in concert. Gunning for greater success, Sease recorded a self-titled LP in 1986 featuring one of his most popular songs, 'Ghetto Man,' and began working the South's so-called chitlin circuit of ghetto bars, rural juke joints, and blues festivals.
When this venture failed, Sease began singing to pre-recorded backing tracks at local dances and clubs, self-released several 45s, and eventually scored a regular gig at a Brooklyn nightspot called the Casablanca. Preferring R&B, though, Sease put together a backing band (called Sease) featuring his three brothers. Born in Blackville, S.C., Sease got his start by joining a gospel group in nearby Charleston called the Five Gospel Singers, and moved to New York at age 20, where he joined another gospel group called the Gospel Crowns.
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