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Arziel Hill (September 30 1935, Naples, Texas � April 27 1984, Dallas, Texas[|Z|HILL&sql;=11:kifyxq95ldke~T1 All Music Guide biography - accessed January 2008]) known popularly as Z
. Z. Hill, was an African American blues singer, in the soul blues tradition, known for his 1970s and 1980s recordings for Malaco. His Down Home Blues album (1982) stayed on the Billboard soul album chart for nearly two years.
LifeHill began his singing career in the late 1950s as part of a gospel group called The Spiritual Five, touring Texas. Around 1960, he started collecting records by B. B. King, Freddie King, Sam Cooke, Bobby "Blue" Bland and Wilson Pickett and began singing and writing songs influenced by these styles.
In 1964, Hill moved to California and recorded "You Were Wrong" on his brother's M.H. record label.
In 1971, Williams recorded Hill in Muscle Shoals, Alabama and they had hits including "Faithful & True" (Cash Box Top 100) and "Chokin' Kind" (Cash Box R&B; #50). With his brother's help, Hill then signed to United Artists, where he released several successful singles. During the United Artist period in the mid 1970s, he was aided by arrangements and compositions by established R&B; talents like Lamont Dozier and Allen Toussaint.
Hill's biggest seeling hit came while signed to Columbia, "Love Is So Good When You're Stealing It," which spent 18 weeks on the Billboard R&B; chart in the summer of 1977.
Hill's career was cut short when he died suddenly of a heart attack, after a road accident in 1984( oh no)
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