We were influenced a lot by soul music, and a lot of soul music is kind of very sad.
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While folk music was blowing up, soul music was too.
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They played a great selection of soul music and blues.
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Growing up, my mom played a lot of old soul music.
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Mom would put on her soul music first thing Sunday morning.
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It had folk songs about longing and soul music about feelings.
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As a little kid, soul music made me go, Yeah, that's right.
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"Most of the soul music back then was in Memphis," he added.
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Northern Soul was an up-tempo offshoot of black American soul music.
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I went through the whole 80s and 90s anti-everybody, besides soul music.
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"Really, all good music is just soul music," he told NPR in 2014.
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But I do listen to a lot of soul music and other things.
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One of the first dudes to ever use drum machines in funk/soul music.
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Punk, heavy metal, soul music, Barry Manilow, Rocky Horror, Apocalypse Now — anything went, right?
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Butler crystallizes both Overtown's status as a soul-music mecca and its fraught history.
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Is that something that you think soul music has a particular ability to do?
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My description of soul music is coming from the spirit, coming from the soul.
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Jazz and rock and soul music were inseparable from Berman's life and working method.
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Honoring a soul music legend, recovering from a bridge collapse, and protesting at Google.
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For starters, she has a deep appreciation for soul music, particularly from the 1960s.
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"Squeeze" with Guilty Simpson, "Soul Music" with A.G., and then there's "456" with Action Bronson.
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The resulting recordings are some of the most striking in the history of soul music.
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Also soul music, like Curtis Mayfield from the era when he was in The Impressions.
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Now that she is gone, Paul said that to him, Aretha Franklin embodied soul music.
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Ahead, shop the full 4-piece collection, and cue up some soul music as you scroll.
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Honoring a soul music legend, protesting at Google and hiding a river of trash in Indonesia.
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Ensemble member "in my twenties" My parents listened to a lot of gospel and soul music.
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There was nothing apart from this one club called Andromeda in Colchester, which played soul music.
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Fans of soul music icon Aretha Franklin line up outside Greater Grace Temple at 2300:224 a.m.
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My elder brother, Dan Man, had a studio but he was doing more reggae music, soul music.
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I feel like it becomes soul music because you feel that emotional connection as you're writing it.
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Al successfully crossed over from jazz to R&B and soul music ... many times in his career.
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White guys had to listen to soul music and black guys had to listen to country music.
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Both had a deep appreciation for the classic R&B and soul music of the '23000s and '20163s.
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The record was a throwback to the grooves, live instrumentation, and gospel-indebted background vocals of soul music.
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To the decorous phrasing of a big band singer she brings a steady current of soul-music sassiness.
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As you can see I'm a big fan of soul music and huge fan of soul trains history.
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"Empathizers prefer mellow styles of music, soft rock, R&B and soul, music that is slower," Greenberg said.
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But soul music, as it always had, let her turn both suffering and sexual yearning into one freedom cry.
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Shuggie Otis: "Aht Uh Mi Hed"As the 1960s come to a close, psychedelia has spread into soul music.
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I grew up listening to whatever my parents were listening to: Motown, soul music, The Beatles, Coldplay, Barry White.
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And one of the many phases in which David Bowie really wanted to make R&B and soul music.
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The 36-year-old singer and songwriter's "genre-fluid" country-soul music has been nominated for four Grammy Awards.
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What's most striking about this album is how it expands upon Mr. Mars's longstanding interest in American soul music.
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"Come Home" transports you to the "ain't too proud to beg" rhetoric that was the thesis of soul music.
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In 2006, rapper CeeLo Green teamed up with music producer Danger Mouse to form a soul music duo, Gnarls Barkley.
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Mr. Edwards's resonant, powerful voice, burnished from years singing gospel, was perfect for the driving soul music of the 1970s.
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It's illogical, and yet not — an alliance of soul- music opposites who are both committed to tradition, in different ways.
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" Mr. Ritz said that the two shared "an orchestral view of soul music" that was "very lush and harmonically complex.
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"Retrograde," which slows rave music to the pace of soul music, melted the club in a fountain of black sparks.
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The British songstress, who cites Jill Scott and Lauryn Hill as major influences, weaves beautiful soul music with creative orchestral accompaniment.
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" Jackson's nephew TJ also weighed in on the matter, tweeting , "Sam Smith made a career on singing R&B/soul music.
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I love Blowfly, I love Clarence Reid, and his soul music is a perfect counterpoint to his triple-X party jams.
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Paak did the hardest thing possible: he divined a new definition of soul music in a place that needed it desperately.
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His fervent delivery, rooted in blues and soul music, makes compelling listening out of this process, on record or in concert.
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The film is steeped in the atmosphere of speakeasies, set to Arthur Harrington Gibbs's "Runnin' Wild, Lost Control!" and soul music.
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It's cyclical and deliberate, like late-1970s big-band soul music, and only barely bothers to showcase Mr. Timberlake's lithe voice.
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But in the end it made sense, considering the history of soul music — and Northern Soul in particular — comes from Detroit.
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Often recorded in basic studios with no overdubs and no nonsense, this was soul music in its rawest and purest form.
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Bholoja, who brands himself as the father of Swazi-soul music, is one of the few artists who lives off his art.
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My teacher used a gong today, and played old-school soul music, not very traditional, but exactly what the class was feeling.
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"The list seems consistent and coherent with a particular style, which has that influence of late '70s soul music," Ms. Rae said.
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And then working class communities in England have always had this great love for American soul music and American rock 'n' roll.
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Listen: Yola, an English singer and songwriter, talked about her "genre-fluid" country-soul music, which has received four Grammy Award nominations.
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Soul-music completists will no doubt appreciate the minute detail with which Fletcher recounts Pickett's recording sessions, even his subpar later ones.
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Off the Shelf When I become emperor, three things will happen immediately: • Blue-eyed soul music will be banned from the radio.
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When I write "soul" here, I am thinking of soul as in soul music: the mixing of sex and love with tragedy.
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Chicago soul music pioneer Curtis Mayfield is honored with the Recording Academy's 1994-'95 Lifetime Achievement Award during the 37th annual Grammy Awards.
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"George Michael's sweet soul music will live on even after his sudden death," McCartney, 74, wrote in a statement released on his website.
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"Living in Philly provided a context for a lot of soul music that I had liked," says RJD2 in the record's press release.
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She continued to successfully mine the jazz repertoire without turning her back on the R&B-Soul music that made her a star.
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She emerged at a time when soul music wasn't just a channel on satellite radio or a playlist for the parents of millennials.
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Gospel has long been one of the bedrocks of American soul music, but it has also been very mindful of its own borders.
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Over proudly grimy production that often called on dusty soul music loops, he relayed his words with a crime novelist's eye for sinister detail.
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I write and produce mostly everything, but there are a few people doing soul music around me that I love such as Nasty Mars.
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Her life also track the ascent of soul music, R&B and other forms of black artistic expression into the mainstream of American culture.
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To build popularity, he has been throwing partylike events, which have included bourbon tasting, local breweries and DJ's who spin funk and soul music.
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And he's the creative director of Urban Legends, an imprint at Universal Music Group that creates anniversary editions of hip-hop and soul music.
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But Jorja occupies a similar place, in the corner of British pop that leans on emotional heft meted out by a facsimile of soul music.
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"The Gospel at Colonus," the celebrated soul music adaptation of Sophocles' "Oedipus at Colonus," will return to New York for the first time since 2004.
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Mr. Kedem, who referred to himself as "an R&B aficionado," owned a large, all-digital classic soul music collection from the 1960s and '70s.
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Her uniquely emotional and powerful voice would put her at the forefront of 22015s soul music along with Otis Redding, Sam Cooke and Wilson Pickett.
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Performing spins, drops and splits to uptempo soul music can at times often feel more like a gruelling military assault course exercise than having fun.
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"He told me he loved how I was able to recreate the sound of soul music but do it in a raw way," Mr. Bridges said.
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Perhaps because his voice is more genre-neutral than Mr. Shelton's, Mr. Bryan — who sings with some soul music inflections — is emphatic about his rural signifiers.
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CeCe Winans released an outstanding, intimate back-to-basics album, "Let Them Fall in Love," which convincingly revisited the gospel and soul music of the 1960s.
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Mr. Gest, a music-industry veteran, operated for most of his career behind the scenes, producing celebrity awards shows and concert tours featuring former soul-music greats.
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His name is Angel, and his music falls somewhere between The Weeknd circa 2010 and present day trap, backed up by a thick layer of soul music.
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That's about to change, with a new album titled Donna, that breaks free of the conventional European techno tropes and replaces them with rich Americanized soul music.
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She was central to the secularization of the gospel impulse in the 1960s, and her vision of soul music became the soundtrack to the civil rights movement.
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Motown's quaint and bright "Hitsville" headquarters sits quietly off the city's West Grand Boulevard as a reminder of the label's vibrant contributions to pop and soul music.
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The English R. & B. artist—a vibrant spark within the celebrated legacy of British soul music—depicts her psychic transformation in vulnerable confessionals and jubilant tales of romance.
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He looks as good as the movie, but if you want to hear what white soul music sounds like you need to fire up the real Hank Williams.
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In addition to songwriting — over the last two years, he's collaborated regularly with Miranda Lambert, with whom he's romantically linked — he has been tinkering with heritage soul music.
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The genre is arriving at its Dalí phase, when all the old frameworks — formalist lyricism, soul music DNA, mainstream pop ambition — are melting into something only half-recognizable.
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Soul music, emerging from the turbulent and transformative midpoint of the 20th century, fused the white light of gospel music with the earthy impetus of rhythm and blues.
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Soul music blares, overhead fans stir the air, and the burnished walls and horseshoe bar give it the feel of a vintage expat dive on some tropical island.
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The first woman inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame, Aretha Franklin was an artist of passion, sophistication and command, whose recordings remain anthems that defined soul music.
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When singer Sharon Jones died of pancreatic cancer in November 2016, she left behind a legacy of soul music and a full discography for fans to keep returning to.
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In "Memphis" we get the genes: the soul music, and the barbecue, and the black culture that makes up Randall Pearson's DNA even if it didn't make up his childhood.
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Baby Rose "Mortal" For fans of H.E.R.'s vibe or Yola's amazing voice, or really anyone who can appreciate classic, timeless soul music, please jump on this Baby Rose track.
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I think soul music needs to go back to its roots because a lot of soul singers today, it's all about who they was with, my love this and that.
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To build a following and hustle up gigs, the band played in the subway and at Orchard Beach in the Bronx, combining soul music, doo-wop harmonies and Latin grooves.
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Rico J. Puno, a pop singer from the Philippines who channeled American superstars to forge a distinctive brand of local soul music, died on Tuesday in Taguig, east of Manila.
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In the intervening decades, she has become an internet curiosity and minor cult heroine among soul music aficionados who have spun crackpot theories as to her whereabouts and well-being.
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Of course, the song has been the 'Apprentice' theme for years now -- but soul music legends, The O'Jays just sent a cease and desist letter to Trump and Florida Rep.
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" He adds, "We were a rock band, but we were really influenced by hip-hop records and soul music, so mixing that together has always been one of our favorite things.
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The canonicity and influence of her late-'60s deep soul records is self-evident; if you know what soul music is, they'll sound familiar even if you've never heard them before.
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Franklin, an 18-time Grammy Award–winning talent who was the first woman admitted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, was considered the pinnacle of gospel-rooted soul music.
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The concert, masterminded by Atwater, a big fan of blues and soul music, featured a rare constellation of mostly black stars like Bo Diddley, Willie Dixon, Koko Taylor and Albert Collins.
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For all Mr. Michael did to make gayness interesting and less threatening, he might have done more to help erase a barrier between who should and should not sing soul music.
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She might have flourished in the early 1970s, alongside other artists who bridge the gap between the singer-songwriter mode and soul music, such as Carole King, Laura Nyro and Phoebe Snow.
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Besides their smooth jazz segments, WBGO's repertoire is always high-quality, like the bebop they play during the week and the warm soul music of Felix Hernandez's "Rhythm Revue" shows on Saturdays.
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Where their last studio LP, 2013's Cold Spring Fault Less Youth, featured relatively direct dance pop tunes, "We Go Home Together" is an aggrieved, imprecisely dissonant take on electronic soul music.
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The decision to replace the piano with a harmonica reinforces the album's hard blues lean and "Death Row" reminds us of country music's roots to soul music when it closes the album.
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One recent afternoon, I heard "Ain't No Mountain High Enough," by Diana Ross and the Supremes, blaring from the roller rink speakers, a big welcome sign for this fan of soul music.
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But what Prince has rewritten in his thirty-five-year career ... are the often racist and homophobic attitudes by which soul music was produced and marketed, not least by black artists themselves.
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Abounding with sincerity, his rich, smoky baritone was well suited to his material, which appealed primarily to adult audiences, much like the vintage country and soul music of the 1960s and '70s.
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No living musician is more closely associated than Booker T. Jones with Memphis, the Mississippi River city that fostered a world-changing generation of blues, gospel and soul music five decades ago.
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Nick and King Tuff will be DJing a vinyl set of mostly soul music for the opening, and Rikky Gage (of Free Weed, the Memories, and White Fang) is playing an acoustic set.
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I read an article that questioned whether we need "new soul music" and said that soul must choose to be political or go the pre-Civil Rights route and be happy and sweet.
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Released in 19923, it rose to No. 3 on the pop charts and was included on the first album issued by Stax, a label that helped create the Memphis sound in soul music.
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He was drawn to jazz, but not exclusively — "R&B and soul music, that's my bone marrow" — and attended a performing arts high school, where his classmates included the drummer Ahmir Thompson, a.k.a.
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If good soul music is like good barbecue — slow cooked, falls off the bone — by the 1980s, she'd become a pit master, yelping and barking and wailing, but also talking in songs, sermonizing.
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There was a photo of Ms. Staples with the Obama family, autographed by the president with thanks for a "magical evening" when she performed at the White House for a PBS soul-music special.
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There's a genuine optimism to Essentials, an affectionate understanding of how its classic intersection of mainstream pop, soul music, and club ideals can make a potent cocktail for facing the world with a smile.
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There are absolutes hidden in the gray area between dance and soul music, the song suggests—the same hand that yanks you onto the dance floor can clutch your palm on the walk home.
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When Bruno Mars, who is Puerto Rican, Filipino, and Jewish, was accused in March of appropriating funk and soul music from African Americans, R&B legends such as Charlie Wilson came to his defense.
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Taken from a young age with jazz and soul music, she found her path as a teenager upon entering the radio station at City College of New York — "love at first sight," she said.
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There he meets Anya (Chelsea Lopez), who has a purple pageboy wig and a devotion to vintage soul music that's compelled her to create a Rube Goldbergesque light show machine to accompany her tunes.
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While in high school Mr. Taylor was a member of a racially integrated band that played soul music, a pursuit for which he was punished in the bigoted household in which he grew up.
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Often inspired by music for his designs, Nakashima said that 1960s culture and funk, disco and soul music were behind his latest collection's palette, with vivacious, strong colors highlighted here and there with neon hues.
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The backdrop is an early '70s Tanzania that's recently outlawed mini skirts and bell-bottoms as part of Operation Vijana and followed it up a year later with a ban on soul music and dancing.
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For a certain stripe of older fan, the Roots are exceptionalists who embody all of hip-hop's potential as an extension of the soul music tradition, and who keep hip-hop viable as live performance.
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The band makes its own take on indie rock with blends of soul music, punk, and jazz, and they have worked with an array of artists over the years, including Imogen Heap and Funkmaster Flex.
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Mr. Conley's affinity for soul music was evident on many of his recordings, maybe nowhere as much as on "Too Many Times," a 1986 duet with Anita Pointer of the Grammy Award-winning Pointer Sisters.
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Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated in 1968, the all-white Muscle Shoals Rhythm Section's work on soul music sessions for Atlantic and Stax, two of the era's most influential record companies, was suspended.
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The Jacksons were as interested in the history of black music as they were in performing it; soul music had a lineage, a family—some of whose members turned up in Madlib's own back yard.
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Despite the pending indictment, Cardi (whose real name is Belcalis Almanzar) and Offset attended the ASCAP Rhythm and Soul Music Awards in California Thursday night, where she took home an award for songwriter of the year.
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He survived a hard start as a young hustler on the streets of East Harlem to rise to become a leading figure of boogaloo, the fusion of Latin rhythm and soul music that he helped pioneer.
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Smith has followed in the footsteps of Amy Winehouse, Duffy and Joss Stone, in gaining global success and earning millions from harnessing and commercialising a genre of British soul music that has an unignorable black heritage.
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It's filled with the sound of the B-33, a churchy keyboard that plays through a rotating speaker called a Leslie, granting it an emotive vibrato that, largely thanks to him, is synonymous with soul music.
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Beyonce's Lemonade had a better chance of getting a nomination, as "Daddy Lessons" had nods to the banjo-filled, blues-y roots that both soul music and country music share, thanks to the contributions from African diaspora.
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Mixing hip-hop and the soul music he grew up on, Henderson pursued a sound that would be a "tool to reflect who I am," rather than be pigeonholed into the old school sounds fans might expect.
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His tunes, usually taken at a snug, unhurried clip, mix lyricism and sly rhythmic displacement, drawing upon the influences of 1950s Miles Davis and '70s Woody Shaw, as well as the soul music of his Philadelphia hometown.
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Greg — along with his sons Lamont and Nicholas and his brother Billy — spent most of the day harvesting corn while classic soul music was playing from speakers suspended beneath a recently finished pavilion where about 60 relatives convened.
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Songs that sock out a beat, like "Rumor Has It" and "Rolling in the Deep," summoned soul-music declamation, while a stripped-down, guitar-picking version of "Don't You Remember" turned it into a country-infused torch song.
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These ranged from Northern Soul, the craze born in 1970s northern England in response to American soul music, to the convulsive phenomenon known as tarantism, most common among women in southern Italy in the 16th and 17th centuries.
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Jimmy Johnson, the session guitarist and studio engineer who contributed to hundreds of hit records while helping to define the sound of Southern pop and soul music in the 21943s and '210s, died on Thursday in Florence, Ala.
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"Back in that era, you'd have 30 minutes of soul music, and that meant some Celine Dion," says Bobby Konders, a Hot 97 DJ and a member of Massive B sound system, a group of dancehall DJs and MCs.
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There's real breathing room in the music of James Blake and Majid Jordan, two acts that refract soul music through a digital lens, approaching their songs with reserve and crispness and using moist emotion as a point of contrast.
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He was WRKS's news director for a time and also hosted a weekly news roundup called "The Week in Review" and a series called "Soul Beginnings," which charted the growth of soul music from the 1950s to the '70s.
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We toured the Stax Museum of American Soul Music, took a walk along the Mississippi River, visited the ducks in the fountain at the Peabody hotel, ate ribs at the Rendezvous, and peeked into blues joints on Beale Street.
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The group plays a six-song set The group plays a set that goes through five stages of grief: a spiritual for denial; classical music for anger; jazz for bargaining; then blues and soul music for depression and acceptance.
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Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads Baron Wormser first gained recognition as a poet, with collections like Good Trembling (Houghton Mifflin, 1985), Atoms, Soul Music and Other Poems (Paris Review Press, 1989), and the award-winning When (Sarabande Books, 1997).
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And by the mid-1960s, she was heralded as one of the best voices ever in British pop, while overseas, where Southern soul music was stirring America, she became a leading player alongside the Black female superstars of the era.
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This is music that people consider timeless and I had to study that in the context of the music: That taught me to write from the soul, less about writing "soul music," but music that is emotionally raw and that tells a story.
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While Parrish and Pittman might not be able to keep everyone's attention throughout their full five-hour marathon, it's great to see how Parrish, with his fluffy beard and broad smile, fooling around with Pittman, who is playing some slow-burning soul music.
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But as part of his inaugural festivities in 1989, the 41st president had an unusual photo-op at a concert, hamming it up on a prop guitar while soul-music stars like Sam Moore, Carla Thomas and Percy Sledge smiled around him.
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From rhythm and blues, soul music as well as pop later on, the Motown Sound features a string of popular hits made famous by the label's African-American stars, who also influenced U.S. culture during the civil rights era with their songs.
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Her long-canonized late-'60s albums on Atlantic define the sound and sensibility of classic soul music: the piercing quality of Aretha's cries and declamations against the gritty counterpoint of the Muscle Shoals rhythm section's spry, layered mesh of jagged horns and driving backbeat.
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Chips Moman, a producer and songwriter who helped define the Memphis sound in soul music in the 1960s, generated dozens of pop, soul and country hits and helped resuscitate Elvis Presley's career in the late '60s, died on Monday in LaGrange, Ga. He was 21972.
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Like his son, Howard Husock has had a varied career journey, writing about blues and soul music for The Boston Phoenix and Creem magazine in the 1970s, then becoming a vice president at the Manhattan Institute for Policy Research, which promotes free-market capitalist principles.
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He makes his hometown pride clear on albums like "Gerald Cleaver's Detroit" and this year's excellent "Live at Firehouse 260" — which features a few fellow side musicians with Michigan ties — but at this show he will explore the legacy of another soul music Mecca: Memphis.
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Detroit techno legend Moodymann has been consistently releasing music since the late '90s, and like all mastermixers he covers a wide range; however, his core style aligns him with a steady Detroit tradition of sampling/simulating old soul music and placing it within a modern electronic context.
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By many accounts, Dame Fortune is RJD2's tribute to soul music, in the way More Is Than Isn't felt partly like a tribute to the Los Angeles Beat scene—though you don't need to listen to either them that closely to hear elements of both.
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That brief snippet of percussion excellence became the platonic ideal of a breakbeat, the foundation of hip-hop's sampling era and a direct through line from the ferocious soul music of the civil rights era to the golden age of history-minded hip-hop of the 22002s and '20003s.
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MEMPHIS — It's easy to understand why some people in this town of soul music and dry-rub ribs don't know what to make of the tall tech billionaire in a big white cowboy hat who has been opening restaurants and buying up hundreds of acres of land that used to grow cotton.
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" Further evidence of the Beatles' impact on popular culture can be found, if only in passing, in IN THE MIDNIGHT HOUR: The Life and Soul of Wilson Pickett (Oxford University, $27.95), which somewhat surprisingly is the first biography of the singer its author, Tony Fletcher, calls "the very embodiment of soul music.
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In 1962, Ray Charles, one of the fathers of soul music, released Modern Sounds in Country and Western Music, the first country record to sell 1 million copies, ushering in the possibility of the sort of pop and country music crossover for which white artists like Carrie Underwood and Taylor Swift are now celebrated.
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Her most recent album, "Memphis," is a homage to the soul music of the city where she was born, but at this Valentine's Day concert — joined by her typical backing trio of the pianist Carmen Staaf, the bassist Tabari Lake and the drummer Tyson Jackson — expect a more standard serving of romantic jazz fare.
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In addition to updating its logo and flyers with fresher designs, the bar has also started offering more variety in its programming, with a new soul music night called HoMotown, a night for serious music heads called Sessions on Fridays, and queer icons like Daniela Sea from The L Word and JD throwing down sets on a regular basis.
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He is the old music scene, the cynical, computer-based calculation of soul music that sounds just modern enough to be played on Radio 1 but just classic enough to be played on Radio 2, the same formula that let British music be overrun with giant bores like Sam Smith, John Newman, Emeli Sande, Ella Henderson, Jess Glynne, etc.
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"Die a Happy Man" is a slow, graceful ballad sung with pure feeling: If I never get to see the Northern LightsOr if I never get to see the Eiffel Tower at nightOh, if all I got is your hand in my handBaby, I could die a happy man Mr. Rhett sings gently, with the faintest hint of soul-music syrup in his barely-accented voice.
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John Legend: A Legendary Christmas (Columbia, 2018) From Stevie Wonder's "What Christmas Means to Me" to Marvin Gaye's "Purple Snowflakes" to the Jackson 5's "Give Love on Christmas Day," this album's nostalgia is for bygone eras of soul music — the thumping bass, glistening rhythm guitar, and skippity horn arrangements imagine a fictional retro-R&B style whose interlocking elements click together with the synchronized perk of a big-band ensemble.
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