The relentless intensity of James Brown's music made him one of the most recognizable and influential artists since the fifties. He began as a gospel singer, but soon switched to rhythm and blues, and he began to score hits. During the sixties transformed the self-proclaimed Godfather Of Soul handedly the rhythm and blues sound into a tight, driving style, which he co-formed the basis of the funk.
In the following decades, personal problems threatened to put the ever passionate Brown sidelined but he always come back. The countless JB samples - whether attributed to him - who rap and hiphop records are returned to find evidence of his enduring influence. The "Godfather of Soul" died on Christmas Day 2006.more