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Rotary Connection

CTL-E-0517 · Person · group · 1966–1974

PROVISIONAL evidence grade of this record

Rotary Connection was a Chicago psychedelic-soul group on Cadet Concept (a Chess subsidiary) featuring Minnie Riperton. Producer Charles Stepney's arrangements for the group connected Chess's soul experiments to later Earth, Wind & Fire work.

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Merged into canonical KG 2026-10-03 from MUSIC-001; source entity IDs: CTL-DR-MUSIC-001:music-001-group-008; source research type(s): group. Description completed 2026-10-03 from the source research record (claims) during the KG completion pass.

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