Eloise Laws
title: "Eloise Laws" type: doc version: 1 created: 2026-02-28 author: "Wikipedia contributors" status: active scope: public tags: ["american-musical-theatre-actresses", "1943-births", "living-people", "musicians-from-houston", "actresses-from-houston", "20th-century-american-actresses", "20th-century-american-singers", "21st-century-american-singers", "20th-century-american-women-singers", "21st-century-american-women-singers"] topic_path: "arts" source: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eloise_Laws" license: "CC BY-SA 4.0" wikipedia_page_id: 0 wikipedia_revision_id: 0
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| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| name | Eloise Laws |
| image | File:Eloise Laws 1968.JPG |
| landscape | |
| caption | Laws in 1968 |
| birth_name | Lavern Eloise Laws |
| birth_date | |
| birth_place | Houston, Texas, U.S. |
| death_date | |
| genre | Jazz, R&B |
| occupation | Vocalist |
| years_active | |
| label | Invictus, ABC, Capitol |
| website | |
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| name = Eloise Laws | image = File:Eloise Laws 1968.JPG | image_size = | landscape = | alt = | caption = Laws in 1968 | birth_name = Lavern Eloise Laws | native_name = | native_name_lang = | alias = | birth_date = | birth_place = Houston, Texas, U.S. | origin = | death_date = | death_place = | genre = Jazz, R&B | occupation = Vocalist | instrument = | years_active = | label = Invictus, ABC, Capitol | associated_acts = | website = Eloise Laws (born November 6, 1943) is an American singer and a member of the Laws family of musicians from Houston, Texas.
Biography
Lavern Eloise Laws was born in Houston, Texas, as the fourth of eight children of Miola Luverta Donahue and Hubert Laws, Sr.{{cite web |url=http://www.ancestry.com |title= Texas Birth Index, 1903–1997 [database on-line] |publisher= The Generations Network |location= United States |accessdate=2008-07-20 Born into a family of musicians, her siblings include flutist Hubert, saxophonist Ronnie, and vocalist Debra.
In the 1970s, she was the first replacement for singer Marilyn McCoo in The 5th Dimension. She then began recording for Holland-Dozier-Holland's Music Merchant and later Invictus labels. Her first album, Ain't It Good Feeling Good, was released on Invictus in 1977. Unfortunately, both labels folded. Laws released the LP Eloise (ABC) later the same year and Eloise Laws (Liberty) in 1980, both of which featured the songwriting and producing talents of Linda Creed.
Eloise has been credited as one of the backing singers on her brother Ronnie's 1980 LP Every Generation.
After All in Time, for Capitol, followed two years later, Laws was featured on albums from such artists as Harvey Mason, Lee Oskar, Aquarian Dream, Ahmad Jamal as well as several releases by her siblings. She did not record another solo album until the late 1990s. Meanwhile, she pursued a career on stage, starring in the Tony-nominated musical, It Ain't Nothin' But the Blues, which she also co-wrote.
Discography
Studio albums
- 1977: Ain't It Good Feeling Good (Invictus Records)
- 1977: Eloise (ABC)
- 1980: Eloise Laws (Liberty)
- 1982: All in Time (Capitol)
- 2000: The Key (Scepterstein)
- 2003: Secrets (Scepterstein)
Compilations
- 1999: Love Factory: The Invictus Sessions (Castle)
References
References
- Phillips, McCandlish. (1970-06-17). "Singer Takes Charm to Rikers Island". The New York Times.
- (1971-06-10). "Jet". Johnson Publishing Company.
- (2000-07-15). "Billboard". Nielsen Business Media, Inc..
- (1978-05-18). "Jet". Johnson Publishing Company.
- Romero, Jhair. (2023-01-30). "Stevie Wonder makes surprise performance at funeral of Third Ward matriarch Miola Donahue Laws".
- aframnews. (2023-01-28). "Stevie Wonder Pays Respect to Miola Laws".
- "Miola Donahue Laws 103rd Birthday Car Parade Celebration".
- Dellinger, Hannah. (2022-08-27). "Legendary Houston ‘Matriarch’ receives congressional honor as part of 103rd birthday celebration".
- "Eloise Laws Biography". [[Rovi Corporation]].
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