Mike & The Censations

US doo-wop influenced soul group in the mid 1960s, formed and leaded by Bob Kirkland), and their sister and her husband.

Formerly from Mississippi in a local gospel act, the Seven Seals, along with his two brothers, Walter and Robert, they later moved to Los Angeles around 1956. A bet with his brother Robert, that they could cut a record as good as any Motown work, in the winter of 1965, Mike & the Censations recorded their first official release “Victim Of Circumstance”. A self-released record on Robert's Bryan Records label. It made the top 50 of the R&B Charts.