The way a piece of music attaches itself to our lives feels like the closest we will come to experiencing actual magic. Songs ...

*Soul Music is more than a musical genre. It’s an original American expression of creativity, a unique cultural art form born out of pain, oppression, extreme pressure, and an eyewitness view of the ...

Sam Smith's "Stay with Me" is currently heating up our summer playlist. With nods from the likes of Mary J. Blige, the English crooner, who reminds us of a young George Michael, is a reminder that ...

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So many incredible soul singers have graced our ears with their incredible music and even more incredible voices. Many have come and gone, like Marvin Gaye, Sam Cooke, Aretha Franklin, and James Brown ...

For a long time, Bobby Caldwell was known as the blue-eyed soul singer. Beloved by Black people everywhere, we mourned with his passing in March 2023. Now, with it being nearly 46 years to the date ...

Don Bryant, pioneering singer-songwriter on the Memphis soul scene, died on Dec. 26 at age 83, his family announced.

R&B icon Don Bryant, who died Dec. 26, had returned to the spotlight in recent years with releases that earned him his first ...

BET has put the iconic music show on indefinite hiatus, eliminating a key platform for artists often ignored by the Grammys.

Memphis soul singer and songwriter, Don Bryant, died Friday morning, Dec. 26, at the age of 83. He’s best known for ...

Rickey Fondren is a 15-year-old 10th grader with an old soul. Growing up in Memphis, he says his childhood was shaped around “older soul music.” One of his biggest influences growing up was someone ...