Willie Clarke is an American musician and songwriter known for songs including "
Clean Up Woman", "Rockin' Chair" and "Willing and Able".
Clarke and a college friend, Johnny Pearsall, started the record label Deep City, based out of Johnny's Records in
Liberty City, Florida. It was the first
African American
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owned independent record label in Florida.
Clarke was featured on the Miami 2015 episode of the
CNN
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television show ''
Anthony Bourdain: Parts Unknown''.
Deep City Records
Deep City Records was a record label run out of a music store in the
Liberty City section of Miami. Clarke was one of the founders.
See also
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TK Records
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African-American songwriters
American male songwriters
Living people
American businesspeople
Soul musicians
Grammy Award winners
Year of birth missing (living people)
21st-century African-American musicians
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