Solid As a Rock: The Musical Marriage of Nickolas Ashford and Valerie Simpson

The Birmingham Times
Nickolas Ashford and Valerie Simpson were a solid duo long before the pair married in 1974. Lovers of soul music know the couple best as Ashford & Simpson, the songwriting, production and recording duo behind some of the biggest hits of the 1970s and 1980s.
Ashford was born in Fairfield, South Carolina, and Simpson in the Bronx, New York City. The two met in 1964 at the White Rock Baptist Church in Harlem shortly after Ashford moved to New York City to pursue a music car