The Roots And Genre Of Soul Music
The soul music is a well-liked approach to music that was made back in the 50’s by influential artists like Ray Charles, Little Richard, and James Brown. The sultry mix of gospel with rhythm, blues, and beats, began the birth of soul artists. Some found this early music not acceptable, as depicted in the biopic film Ray. It did not do well among the majority of the gospel fearing crowd of the times as they felt it was not good to sing in a gospel manner while singing about love, women, and good times. Inspite of the protest it began to fill the airwaves and make a definite strong effect on the world of music.
The gospel music mixed with the early rock and roll and rhythm and blues and quickly started began to reach artist like Aretha Franklin the “Queen of Soul”, Solomon Burke, Otis Redding, and many more. With the large number of artists trying to get their name on record labels, many found themselves moving overseas to be discovered; thus the beginning of the northern soul genre. Since the 50’s and 60’s year of rare soul music, many new sub genres have come up such as the Detroit Motown, Deep and Southern soul, Memphis, New Orleans, Chicago and Philadelphia soul.