Ellas McDaniel (born Ellas Otha Bates, December 30, 1928 – June 2, 2008), known as Bo Diddley, was an American R&B singer, guitarist, songwriter and music producer who played a key role in the transition from the blues to rock and roll, and influenced artists including Elvis Presley, Buddy Holly, the Beatles, the Rolling Stones, the Yardbirds, Eric Clapton, the Who, Jimi Hendrix, George Thorogood, Parliament-Funkadelic, and The Clash.
Cassie Berman (born Cassie Marrett) was a member of the indie rock band Silver Jews, which was fronted by her husband David Berman.
 She contributed vocals and occasionally bass to the albums "Bright Flight", "Tanglewood Numbers", and "Lookout Mountain, Lookout Sea".
 She also played bass and sang backup during live concerts.
Minnie Julia Riperton-Rudolph (November 8, 1947 – July 12, 1979), known professionally as Minnie Riperton, was an American singer-songwriter best known for her 1975 single "Lovin' You" and her five-octave vocal range.
 Born in 1947, Riperton grew up in Chicago's Bronzeville neighborhood on the South Side.
 As a child, she studied music, drama, and dance at Chicago's Lincoln Center.
 In her teen years, she sang lead vocals for the Chicago-based girl group, The Gems.
 Her early affiliation with the legendary Chicago-based Chess Records afforded her the opportunity to sing backup for various established artists such as Etta James, Fontella Bass, Ramsey Lewis, Bo Diddley, Chuck Berry, and Muddy Waters.
 While at Chess, Riperton also sang lead for the experimental rock/soul group Rotary Connection, from 1967 to 1971.
Afrodiziak was a British singing group composed of Caron Wheeler, Claudia Fontaine, and later Naomi Thompson, that was active in the 1980s.
 As a duo, Wheeler and Fontaine were best known for performing backing vocals on The Jam's final single "Beat Surrender" in 1982 (with whom they also performed on their final tour) and Elvis Costello's 1983 album "Punch the Clock", especially its single, the international hit "Everyday I Write the Book".
 After the addition of a third member, Naomi Thompson, they went on to sing for acts such as Heaven 17 and Howard Jones.
 Afrodiziak performed backing vocals on the hit single Free Nelson Mandela, including the a cappella intro, staging it at The Tube (Channel4) in March 1984.
 Heaven 17's 1984 album, "How Men Are", featured them prominently, especially on the singles "Sunset Now" and "And That's No Lie".
 In 1984 and 1985 they performed on Madness's albums "Keep Moving" and "Mad Not Mad" respectively, also appearing in the video for the Madness single "Sweetest Girl".
 Also in 1985, they performed backing vocals on the first two songs on Howard Jones' second album, "Dream Into Action", both of which ("Things Can Only Get Better" and "Life in One Day") became worldwide hit singles; later that year, they went on tour as part of Jones' band.
 Other acts the group sang backup for include Japan, Ian Gillan, Aztec Camera, Maxi Priest, Aswad, Sam Brown, and Julia Fordham.
 Besides "The Tube", Afrodiziak also appeared on "Top of the Pops", "The Old Grey Whistle Test", "Solid Gold", and "American Bandstand".
 They performed live at the Montreux Jazz Festival, Live Aid Japan, Red Nose Day of Charity, and the first Free Nelson Mandela Concert.
Devyn June Puett (born November 22, 1977 in Gary, Indiana) is an American actress, singer, dancer, and real estate agent.
 She is best known for her role as Devyn on Kids Incorporated.
 Devyn is the little sister of former Life Goes On (TV series) star Tommy Puett.
 She made her acting debut in Kidsongs under the stage name Poochie Puett.
 After Devyn's acting career took off she and her family moved from Gary, Indiana, to Diamond Bar, California.
 After her time on "Kidsongs" ended she was cast as Devyn on "Kids Incorporated" from Season 5 through Season 6.
 As a singer, Puett was featured in the children's chorus on Martika's hit single "Toy Soldiers".
 In her early twenties she worked for many producers writing and recording.
 Devyn sang backup vocals on Tommy's only album "Life Goes On".
 She was in American Masters as Virginia Poe in 1995.
 "American Masters" was Devyn's final acting project.
Donna Allen is an American dance-pop singer, born in Key West, Florida, and raised in Tampa.
 At one point a cheerleader for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, she got her start performing in the bands Hi-Octane, Trama and Maxx.
 During her tenure with MAXX she was courted by Alan Walden (Capricorn Records/Hustler Productions) before launching a solo career.
 She also sang backup on tour for Gloria Estefan for nine years.
Larry Edward Smith, (born 27 October 1945) is a Canadian musician, composer, recording artist, and computer programming expert.
 He studied Engineering Science at the University of Toronto where he graduated in 1968 with a Bachelor of Applied Science degree.
 In 1970 the 24-year-old Smith joined the Canadian rock band Lighthouse, a rock group that sold millions of records and earned three Juno Awards as one of Canada’s leading pop bands.
 Smith composed, arranged and sang Old Man from the One Fine Morning gold album, as well as composing and co-composing various other songs for the group.
 Starting out on valve trombone with Lighthouse, he later moved to trumpet, and then to keyboards when Paul Hoffert left the band.
 Smith also sang backup vocals on most of the recordings.
David Lucas (born David Helfman April 21, 1937) is an American rock and roll composer, singer, and music producer.
 He has written a number of commercial jingles, such as AT&T's "Reach Out and Touch Someone."
 In 1981, he received a Clio Award for composing the music to Pepsi's "Catch That Pepsi Spirit."
 As a record producer, he worked with many new artists such as Blue Öyster Cult.
 On the 1976 Blue Öyster Cult song "Don't Fear the Reaper" which he co-produced, Lucas sang backup vocals and came up with the idea for using a cowbell, parodied by Christopher Walken in the "More cowbell" skit on "Saturday Night Live".
 In June 2011, Lucas was inducted into Buffalo's Music Hall of Fame.
Karen Lawrence is an American singer and songwriter who has worked with the L.A. Jets, 1994, Karen Lawrence and the Pinz and Blue by Nature.
 She sang backup vocals on "Get it up" from "Draw the Line" by Aerosmith and also sang on a Jeff Beck album.
The 411 were an English female R&B group formed in late 2003.
 The band formed after a couple of the members sang backup vocals on Lemar's version of Al Green's "Let's Stay Together".
 The band took its name after the 1992 Mary J. Blige album "What's the 411?
".
 During their time together as a group, they released one studio album "Between the Sheets" and three top-forty singles before disbanding in 2005.

Question: Of the singers that Minnie Julia Riperton-Rudolph sang backup for, which one was born with the name Ellas Otha Bates?
Answer: Bo Diddley