Soul music had entered its Golden Age in the 1970s and transformed the future of pop with hard-hitting grooves and gritty ...

In 1984, Lionel Richie, Prince, and Billy Ocean helped expand the reach of soul music and forever transformed the sound of ...

On March 15, 1955, Ray Charles hit number one on the Billboard R&B chart with "I Got a Woman" — and American music was never ...

However culture-shifting history proves Beyoncé’s new album, Cowboy Carter, to be, it’s not unprecedented. For generations, artists have blurred the supposed lines between country music, R&B, soul, ...

Singing soul music was never about profit for singer Little Jake Mitchell — it’s about seeing people happy. Even now, at 80 years old and 50 years into his career, his band, Little Jake and the Soul ...

(ThyBlackMan.com) There’s just something about Anthony Hamilton’s voice that hits different. Maybe it’s the grit in his tone, the way he drags a syllable like he’s pulling it straight from the soul.

As far back as he can remember, Dante Carfagna has collected soul records. He maintains his bounty in his third-floor walk-up apartment on a single floor-to-ceiling shelving unit, stacked with white ...

The ’90s, arguably, constituted the last era of rock music. When boy bands and pop stars put an end to rock’s five-decade reign over popular music, the decade of grunge and jangly college music was ...