Down On the Basement With Sugar Pie! This Saturday (12/17) from 1-3 PM on Fool’s Paradise with Rex


Soulful spitfire Umpeleya Marsema Balinton, better known as Sugar Pie DeSanto, checks in with Rex this Saturday to talk about her incredible career and her upcoming appearance at The Bell House. Get the scoop behind all her great hits like “I Want To Know”, “Slip In Mules”, and “Soulful Dress.” Plus hear about her time on the road with the Johnny Otis, her back-flipping role as “Lady James Brown” with the James Brown Revue and about her days as a JD in girl gang known as the Lucky 20’s.


Tune in to Fool’s Paradise with Rex this Saturday from 1-3PM and find out how saucy Sugar Pie can make even Millie Jackson blush!

Rock Me Baby - Sugar Pie Desanto. England 1964.