Labelle head against the wall until it began to bleed severely. She was removed from the theater in restraints. Feeling the group had reached the end of its rope, Patti LaBelle advised the group to disband as long as their friendship remained intact. Nona Hendryx and Sarah Dash agreed and formally announced their split at the end of 1976 after fourteen years together. Following her departure from the Blue Belles, Cindy Birdsong enjoyed success as member of the Supremes, singing background on hits such as "Stoned Love". Birdsong prominently left the group in 1975, only sporadically recording music as a solo
Mia Birdsong Mia Birdsong Mia Birdsong is a family activist who advocates for the strengthening of communities and the self-determination of low-income people. She has been published in Slate, the Stanford Innovation Review, Salon, the Huffington Post, On Being, the Good Men Project and also recognized as one of the Colorlines‘ “15 Remarkable Women of Color Who Rocked 2015. Her 2015 TED talk, “The Story We Tell About Poverty Isn’t True,” has been viewed over 1.5 million times. Birdsong is co-director of Family Story, alongside Nicole Rodgers. Birdsong was vice president of Family Independence Initiative (FII). Mia Birdsong was raised in a