MAXAYN/MANDRE SUPER POST

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I thought i'd post up a few acts that morphed during their time in the spotlight..

Im going to start with Maxayn.

Like the members of Blondie (who still explain to fans and press that Debbie Harry was one member of the group Blondie, that her name is not “Blondie,”)

Maxayn was husband & wide Maxayn Lewis & Andre Lewis, Emilio Thomas, and fellow super-session musician Marlo Henderson (later, Hank Redd).

While the group did not have much commercial success, though their music is respected by fans of rare groove and is remembered fondly by those who had hip musical tastes in the early 70s. Their music was in my opinion, what Sly Stone's Back up singers "little Sister's album would have sounded like if it was written and produced by Sly & Roberta Flack


Maxayn called it quits after 3 albums in 1974, BUT the group did not die.

Rather, it morphed into a new group, born in 1977, was called Mandre and kept the core of the Maxayn group intact.

This time the concept was futuristic space funk/disco complete with tons of synthesizers and blipping electronics. Maxayn’s hubby Andre was at the helm, Maxayn Lewis was no longer singing lead in this group, but doing backup vocals, as well as songwriting and playing.

And the Motown promotions machine tried to hype Mandre as being “funkier than Parliament.” I have a differnt feeling which i go into in the post..

anyway, Mandre finally called it quits in 1979.

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