In You” will serve as the SoulTracks introduction for Chicago born and Austin based singer Sakari. However, Sakari has the ...

She is truly a one-of-a-kind artist, a performer who has embodied fearless reinvention. Born May 19, 1952, in Jamaica and raised in Syracuse, New York, Grace Jones has spent a lifetime marching to her ...

Happy Birthday to Kenny Gamble, the architect of the Sound of Philadelphia, born August 11, 1943. When it comes to soul music legends, they don’t get much bigger or more important than Kenneth “Kenny” ...

Happy birthday to the great Norman Connors, born March 1, 1947. If there is a Kevin Bacon (six degrees of separation) of music in the last 50 years it may be Norman Connors. He is a man who was a ...

Stevie Wonder has lived virtually his entire life onstage, with a career in a series of stages. And as prolific as he was during his Imperial Period in the 1970s, he created many, many more songs that ...

“There comes a time in everybody’s life when you got to stand face to face with the truth,” Valerie Simpson testified on “Can’t It Wait Until Tomorrow,” a single from her Motown debut Exposed (1971).

(March 12) Today we take a moment to celebrate the life of the late, great jazz singer Al Jarreau. It is impossible to speak of the emergence of contemporary jazz in the 1980s without pausing a long ...

Baseball announcers often talk about a player having “sneaky power,” meaning that the batter has more strength and impact than at first it might seem. And that is analogous to the story of Patrice ...

This SoulTracks Lost Gem is a duet that pairs two vocalists who were at the height of their powers when this song was released in 1990. Both Howard Hewett and Anita Baker dropped highly regarded ...

Happy birthday to Archie Bell, leader of the group Archie Bell and the Drells, born September 1, 1944. Archie Bell & the Drells was one of the most enjoyable (but often overlooked) dance groups of the ...

Today we commemorate the birthday of the late great Al Wilson, born June 19th, 1939. Smooth soul singer Al Wilson will forever be best known for his across-the-board smash hit, “Show and Tell,” but ...

Happy birthday to Larry Blackmon of the group Cameo, born May 24, 1956. Cameo has a permanent place in R&B history as one of the great funk groups, with both decades of great hits and sense of fun ...