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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 ...

The Dominican pianist Michel Camilo has been a jazz star of sorts since at least 1988 when he debuted impressively on Columbia. His performances with his Latin-jazz-on-steroids trio, quartet or big ...

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 ...

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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 ...

At age 69, Solomon Burke may be more popular today than he was in the mid-1960s, when his string of impassioned singles for Atlantic Records — highlighted by "Cry to Me," "Goodbye Baby (Baby Goodbye), ...