Baby Huey didn’t just sing soul music, he prophesied it. Born James Thomas Ramey in Richmond, Indiana, Baby Huey was a once-in-a-generation vocalist whose power, vulnerability, and raw presence made him one of the most influential artists most people have never heard of. Fronting Baby Huey & the Babysitters in late-1960s Chicago, he fused psychedelic soul, funk, gospel, and spoken-word urgency into something that felt more like a sermon than a performance. His 1971 album The Baby Huey Story: The