Mark Ulriksen The One: The Life and Music of James Brown RJ Smith Gotham Books In the early 1970s ... The talk show host David Frost asked Brown what soul was. “The truth,” he replied.

The “Godfather of Neo Soul” passed away on March 4 in New ... with various rappers sampling the hit song like Common’s “Book of Life,” Mary J. Blige’s “My Life,” Naughty By Nature ...

speak candidly about growing up with "the Godfather of Soul," who died at the age of 73 in Atlanta in 2006. At the opening of the video, Deanna, 55, notes that although she earned a college degree ...

The eventual "Godfather of Neo-Soul" found remarkable success with the label Polydor, releasing 11 albums with them from 1970 to 1977. A true artist's artist, his collaborations over the decades ...

Roy Ayers, the trailblazer of jazz, funk and neo-soul whose "Everybody Loves the Sunshine" proved a hugely popular hip-hop sample, has died. He was 84 years old. The artist's family shared the ...