This Tampa, Florida-based soul trio originally featured Brenda Hillard, Albert Bailey, and Zulema Cusseaux, and were known as the Lovelles. As Faith, Hope Charity, the trio began recording for the Maxwell label in 1970, also the year they released their first album, a self-titled set. Van McCoy wrote and produced the first three singles. One of them, "So Much Love," reached 14 on the R&B chart. Cusseaux departed in 1971, and Hillard and Bailey remained the front duo -- as heard on 1972's Sussex-issued Heavy Love, produced by McCoy, Joe Cobb, and Mike Stokes -- until Diane Destry joined them in 1974. The following year, the group scored their only number one R&B hit with "To Each His Own," off another self-titled album, this one released by RCA. After a second RCA album, 1976's Life Goes On, they moved to 20th Century for a third self-titled album in 1978. Its "Don't Pity Me" was an R&B Top 20 release that year. It would be the group's last. They split up shortly thereafter. ~ Ron Wynn, Rovi