Doris Troy has been played on NTS in shows including Shells, featured first on 7 January 2019. Songs played include What'cha Gonna Do?, What'Cha Gonna Do About It and Just One Look.

Doris Troy (January 6, 1937 – February 16, 2004) was an American Rhythm & Blues singer, known to her many fans as "Mama Soul".

She was born as Doris Elaine Higginsen, in The Bronx, the daughter of a Barbadian Pentecostal minister. She later took her grandmother's name and grew up as Doris Payne. Her parents disapproved of "subversive" forms of music like rhythm & blues, so she cut her teeth singing in her father's…