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Tavares (also known as The Tavares Brothers) is an American R&B, funk and soul music group composed of five Cape Verdean-American brothers. Some were born in New Bedford, Massachusetts and Providence, Rhode Island, they would move back and forth between the two cities throughout their childhood. The brothers, whose parents were of Cape Verdean descent, started performing in 1959 as Chubby and the Turnpikes when the youngest brother was nine years old. P-Funk keyboardist/architect Bernie Worrell briefly joined the group in 1968 while attending the New England Conservatory of Music. Future Aerosmith drummer Joey Kramer appeared as the "token white-guy drummer" in a later incarnation called The Turnpikes from the fall of 1969 until September 1970, when he was invited to join Aerosmith. He was later replaced with drummer Paul Klodner and bassist Steve Strout, which gave them a tight, punchy rhythm section. Chubby and The Turnpikes signed with Capitol Records in 1967 and had a couple of local hit records including "I Know The Inside Story" in 1967 and "Nothing But Promises" in 1968. By 1973, they had changed their name to Tavares and scored their first R&B Top 10 (Pop Top 40) hit with "Check it Out", and soon began charting regularly on the R&B and pop charts. Their first album included their brother Victor, who sang lead on "Check it Out", but dropped out of the group shortly afterward. In 1974 Tavares had a No. 1 R&B hit with Hall & Oates's "She's Gone", (which became a hit for Hall & Oates as well two years later). "Anonymous vocally, the creatures of various cheerfully crass producers, these five brothers are professional entertainers without apology." — Christgau's Record Guide: Rock Albums of the Seventies (1981) 1975 turned out to be their most successful year chartwise, with a Top 40 Pop album (In the City), the No. 25 hit "Remember What I Told You to Forget". They were inducted into the Rhode Island Music Hall of Fame in 2014. They consist of: Ralph – Ralph Edward Vierra Tavares (b. December 10, 1941) Pooch – Arthur Paul Tavares (b. November 12, 1942) Chubby – Antone Lee Tavares (b. June 2, 1944) Butch – Feliciano Vierra Tavares Jr. (b. May 18, 1948) Tiny – Perry Lee Tavares (b. October 23, 1949)