Arthur Miles (born November 14, 1949, Indianapolis, Indiana) is an American musician. He started his career as a singer at a very young age in Richmond, San Francisco. The influence of the music of his uncle, the great guitarist Wes Montgomery, and his father’s night club “Arthur’s” which allowed him to observe, absorb and jam with the most famous blues, jazz and soul artists of the time played an important part in his musical orientation.

Since the age of 14 he has played as a professional musician with his own bands. He perfected his singing technique at the School of Natural Voice at Los Angeles tutored by Patricia Warner, and contemporarily completed his formal studies in musical theory. He also majored in journalism at the Pasadena City College.

While in Los Angeles his bands included The Curb Feelers, Good Clean Fun, Days Band and Hardworking.

He has worked as both an individual artist and vocalist to great names such as Edwin Starr, José Feliciano, Big Joe Turner, Johnny Otis, Eddie Clean-Headed Vincent, Jimmy Bo Horn. He toured with The Blues Society performing all over California.

In 1974 he spent several years in Japan, touring the entire country and performing in the principal cities with the Days Band.

In 1984 he came to Italy for a short period of work only to remain up to the present. Italian artists he has worked with include Paolo Conte, Loredana Bertè, Pierangelo Bertoli, Gerry Scotti, Panariello, Fiorello, Andrea Mingardi. He has participated in the festivals Carnevale di Venezia e Umbria Jazz Festival and has made appearances in television shows such as “Festivalbar”, “Torno Sabato”, “Domenica In”, “La Bella e la Bestia”, “Nonsolomoda”and “Cantagiro”.

Following an appearance at the famous “Scimmie” night club in Milan, he was invited by Renzo Arbore to participate in his popular show “Quelli Della Notte” on RAI Uno. His voice interpreted the Frank Raya Band hit “Eyah! Eyah!” featured in the album “The King Of money”.

In 1987, Miles began to work with Zucchero. As his vocalist great successes such as “BLUES”, “Oro Incenso & Birra”, “Spirito Divino” and “Shake” were made. His is the Reverend’s introduction in “Un diavolo In me” (Devil In Me). Zucchero’s most sold hits including “Senza una Donna”, “Hey man”, “Baila”, “Ahum” include Miles’ participation. He also performed in Zucchero’s LP “Fly” released in September 2006 which includes the single “Bacco Perbacco”.

In 1990, he toured with Gloria Gaynor in Italy and recorded ”I Will Survive” and “Love Affair” with her.

In 1992 his hit “Helping Hand” reached number 2 in the London Top Ten and was followed by the hit “Trippin’ On Your Love”, “Ride on the Power” and “Oh Woman”. Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.