Timmie Rogers

In the early 1960s, a quintet of hopeful, young African-American men form an amateur vocal group called The Five Heartbeats. After an initially rocky start, the group improves, turns pro, and rises to become a top flight music sensation. Along the way, however, the guys learn many hard lessons about the reality of the music industry.

Three sisters start out singing in their church choir in Harlem in the late 1950s and become a successful girl group in the 1960s.