Soul & R 'n' B

Now a Major Feature Length Documentary: 'Cassius X: Becoming Ali (Cinema release Spring 2023)  Miami, 1963. A young boy from Louisville, Kentucky,...

From the young Black teenager who built a bass guitar in woodshop to the musician building a solo career with Motown RecordsPrinces bassist BrownMa...

From the young Black teenager who built a bass guitar in woodshop to the musician building a solo career with Motown RecordsPrinces bassist BrownMa...

Prince was an icon of artistry and individuality, a symbol (quite literally, at one point in his career) of independence, a man who lived for the a...

Denise LaSalle's journey took her from rural Mississippi to an unquestioned reign as the queen of soul-blues. From her early R&B classics to bo...

The late Grammy-winning founder of the legendary pop/R&B/soul/funk/disco group tells his story and charts the rise of his legendary band in thi...

Revealing the warm and astonishing story of an influential jazz legend, this personal narrative tells the story of a man's journey from a Southern ...

Laura Nyro (1947-1997) was one of the most significant figures to emerge from the singer-songwriter boom of the 1960s. She first came to attention ...

Years before Diana Ross, Mary Wells was the first Motown solo superstar, the internationally popular songstress who sang the megahit My Guy. Her so...

Influenced at a young age by classic country, Tejano, western swing, and the popular music of wartime America, blues musician Delbert McClinton gre...

Maceo Parkers signature style became the lynchpin of James Brown's band when he and his brother Melvin joined the Hardest Working Man in Show Busin...

The Northern Soul scene is a dance-based music culture that originated in the English North and Midlands in the early 1970s, it still thrives today...

The music of Motown needs no introduction. Berry Gordys record label became a style unto itself, producing hit after suave, sassy and sophisticated...

When he died suddenly at the age of twenty-six, Otis Redding (19411967) was the conscience of a new kind of soul music. Berry Gordy built the first...

Aretha Franklin begain life as the golden daughter of a progressive and promiscuous Baptist preacher. Raised without her mother, she was a gospel p...

We developed reputations real fast. We treated our entertainers right. We got them paid. Other agents and promoters and managers showed them the mo...