(ThyBlackMan.com) Solomon Burke’s contributions to American music are often underrepresented in mainstream discussions of soul, yet his influence is undeniable. Known as the “King of Rock ’n’ Soul,” ...

Besides numerous album reviews, OffBeat also published two feature interviews with Burke, both very entertaining. Scott Jordan talked to the King of Rock and Soul for the July 1997 Backtalk, and ...

Solomon Burke (March 21, 1940 – October 10, 2010) was an American recording artist and vocalist, who shaped the sound of rhythm and blues as one of the founding fathers of soul music in the 1960s and ...

AMSTERDAM - Solomon Burke was born to the sound of music in an upstairs room of a Philadelphia church and went on to become one of the greatest soul singers of the 1960s, renowned as among music's ...

Yet his popularity never matched that of those he influenced, contemporaries including James Brown and Marvin Gaye, a reality he accepted with grace and some frustration, colleagues said. Burke, 70, ...

AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - U.S. soul singer Solomon Burke died at Schiphol Airport in Amsterdam on Sunday morning, aged 70, after flying in from Los Angeles, Dutch media reported. Known as the King of Rock ...

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He won his Grammy in 2003, but Solomon Burke, who died Oct. 10 at 70, became the “King of Rock and Soul” long before that. He first sang “Cry to Me” in 1962 and preached “Everybody Needs Somebody to ...