Opal Louis Nations

Opal Louis Nations has worked in the music business for many years as producer of over a hundred CD collections for various record companies and has been a collector of all types of Post-War black music since he was a teenager. During the mid-1960s he worked as lead vocalist in London clubs with his own group, the Frays, and later the Alexis Korner Quartet. He helped popularize American soul-based R&B and gospel music in Great Britain. He currently spends his time researching and preserving...See more

Opal Louis Nations has worked in the music business for many years as producer of over a hundred CD collections for various record companies and has been a collector of all types of Post-War black music since he was a teenager. During the mid-1960s he worked as lead vocalist in London clubs with his own group, the Frays, and later the Alexis Korner Quartet. He helped popularize American soul-based R&B and gospel music in Great Britain. He currently spends his time researching and preserving music on indie labels, writing articles for various music magazines and producing CD collections for a number of reissue record labels both in the U.S. and in England. His biography of the gospel group The Sensational Nightingales was recently published by Black Scat Books. See less