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irst, there was Berry Gordy, the pioneering founder of Motown Records in Detroit. He took average people with extraordinary talent and made them famous. He believed in them, nurtured them and together they became the Motown family whose strong ties still bind those artists together more than 50 years later, even as the artists have gone on to critical acclaim in other arenas.
Now meet Keith Martin, founder of 2 Save Souls Records in Baltimore. His desire is to create a similar musical family here in Baltimore. Beginning with humble roots, too, Martin started his label in 2011 to honor the memory of his late mother, a nightclub singer who performed simply as Opherral, whose hit record rose to #3 on the charts in the 1960s. Opherral was also a songwriter, who wrote for some of the chart toppers of that era under the pseudonym Betty Jose.
Growing up in West Philly, Martin was exposed to some of the originators of the Philadelphia Sound in the sixties and seventies as they passed through his home to work with his mother. Eavesdropping on rehearsals in their living room, sitting in on studio sessions and hiding out in the back of clubs as his mother performed are among Martin’s earliest and fondest childhood memories.
When his mother died in 1997, Martin was left behind with her catalog of songs both published and unpublished. He felt there would be no greater tribute to Opherral’s legacy than to share her music with the world. But in preserving her music, Martin discovered similarly talented singers and musicians who needed an outlet for sharing their music with the world. And, worldwide distribution was key, 2 Save Souls Records was born.
