Etta James Biography

James Brown is American funk and soul artist who is well-known as the ‘Godfather of Soul’ and he was one of the most iconic figures in soul and funk music from 1950s. James had inspired a lot of artists and also on some genres. For example, his rhythmical funk songs were sampled on some hip-hop genre songs and influenced on the hip-hop genre’s development. Brown was known as his unique soulful voice with great showmanship. Brown was also known for his work of social Activist, writing songs about social problems. Some of his well-known songs are “Papa’s Got A Brand New Bag” (1965), “I Got You (I Feel Good)” (1965), and “It’s A Man’s Man’s Man’s World” (1966). Even though his greatest hits are from 1960s, a lot of these songs are still used in the commercials, films, and T.V. shows even in nowadays.

She was born in 1937 in Jacksonville, Florida, to Billy Daniels a jazz musician. Growing up she was always surrounded by music. She has said that her dad influenced her taste in music from an early age. He would play soothing blues and jazz tunes during her early life. When she was 17, Daniels decided to get her first radio job at a rhythm and blues station in Jacksonville. While at night she would sing at locals nightclubs. Daniels was popular for her

     We will look into the life of James Brown. He is known for his music. In his life, he had to face many obstacles, but through determination, he changed his life cycle. We will touch on the influences in his life, developmental stage and theories that best fit his personality.

These successes earned them two Stellar Awards and three Grammy nominations. Their third album Stand Out also took the number one spot.

Dubbed "The First Lady of Song," Ella Fitzgerald was the most popular female jazz singer in the United States for more than half a century. In her lifetime, she won 13 Grammy awards and sold over 40 million albums.

On July 28th in the evening at home alone, I watched Adele live at Royal Albert Hall on YouTube, which can be found following this link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DJ7bnkVbI88&t=0s.. Adele was born in 1988 in London, and is a well known British singer/songwriter. Adele has released three albums in her career: 19, 21, 25 and Adele has thirteen hits on the billboard top 100 chart as of 2017. Adele started her career in 2006 when a video of hers was discovered on myspace. An influence on Adele’s style of music is Etta James. This performance is before her last album was released and features more of her past relationships in her music, so this concert was not about happy party music, it was a deep soulful experience.

touring her song hit number one on the radio. From their she was famous and

Aretha Louise Franklin also known as the Queen of Soul was born on March 25, 1942 in Memphis Tennessee. She is known for being a solo singer, and also a very talented pianist. Soul, R&B, Jazz, and Gospel are genres that she sings. Throughout her career she signed with Colombia Records and has released many popular singles that would now be considered classical. Aretha became the first female artist to be introduced into the Rock and Roll Hall of fame. Up until this day Aretha is still alive living at age seventy two and has won many Grammy awards and considered one of the most honored artist.

In total, Basie won nine Grammy Awards, but his biggest one was the one he won in 1958. When he received that Grammy, he became the first African-American male to receive a Grammy. Besides his Grammys, a couple of Basie’s songs were inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame such as “April in Paris” and “Everyday I have the blues”. He had recorded over 480 albums. Basie was often recognized for his understated yet captivating style of piano playing and his precise, impeccable musical leadership. Basie set high standards for future jazz artist.

Barbara Charline Jordan contributed many things to help equality for African-Americans and to put an impact on society. She was a lawyer, educator, and was the first African-American women from the south to join Congress. Ever since she was in high school, Barbara had been a very talented public speaker. As a result of being such an inspirational speaker, she gave the opening speech for President Nixon impeachment hearing in 1974. Barbara’s time in Congress ended after three terms and became a professor and policy advocate.

. Very simplistically put, if Rock'n'Roll can, perhaps, be seen as a White artist's interpretation of rhythm and blues, then Soul was, quite clearly, a return to the roots of Black music - to the Blues and in particular , Gospel and the church. The style retains similarities with the Blues; the emotional honesty, the vocal intensity and the use of call and response. Ray Charles may well have been the first to secularize pure Gospel songs, but it reached full maturation in the work of the Queen of Soul, Aretha Franklin. Atlantic Records was, again, at the fore of Black music's evolution - first producing Aretha in 1967 ('I Never Loved A Man'), at the start of one of the greatest series of soul recordings of all time. But even before the

The hit song on the album was “On & On” which striked no. 1 on Billboard's R&B/Hip-Hop Airplay chart and played apart in earning her grammy ( https://youtu.be/-CPCs7vVz6s ). In Rolling Stone magazine’s “100 Best Albums of the Nineties” they said “ Her music was up-to-the-minute jazzy hip-hop R&B, but her voice sounded ancient, with a splash of Northern hipness and a twist of Southern comfort. It was Erykah Badu, from Brooklyn via Dallas, her head wrap tall and tight, singing of knowledge and philosophy and fulfilling unrequited love in the next lifetime. She was the sister-in-music of D'Angelo and Lauryn Hill, the Earth Mother of Nineties boho soul”. She was the definition of a soul singer and everyone loved the vibes and tone you received playing her music. She was also known for her style headwraps and big afros. The success from the album was so big it created a new movement called neo-soul, Erykah Badu was seen as the leading artist of this genre of music.

Duke Ellington’s sense of musical drama had made him stand out from everyone else. He had blend of melodies, rhythms and subtle sonic movement gave the audiences a new experience, complex yet accessible jazz that made the heart swing. Duke’s autobiography, Music Is My Mistress, had published in 1973. he had received 12 Grammy awards from 1959 to 2000, and 9 while he was still

Started off as a leading vocalist in Jackson 5 at the age of 5. (Remarkable range & emotion)

James Baldwin was born on August 2nd, 1924 in Harlem, New York to a young single mother named Emma Jones. She never talked about James’s biological father because of his drug abuse and she didn’t want her baby boy to be put in danger by her ex-husband’s problems, but Emma went on to marry a Baptist Minister named David Baldwin when James was about three years old. James and his stepfather had a strained relationship and even though this was true James still tried to follow in his stepfather’s footsteps. James also referred to his stepfather as his actual father. When James reached his teen years he served as a youth minister in a Harlem Pentecostal church. He started at the age of 14 and stopped at the age of 16. As James went through high school, he demonstrated a true gift for writing and a true love for reading. The high school, he attended was DeWitt-Clinton High School in Bronx New York. Baldwin worked on the school Magazine with future famous Richard Avedon.