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, ...

R+B singer Solomon Burke. has released a new record called Like a Fire. Kurt Andersen talked to Burke back in 2006, when he released Nashville, a collection of tunes he recorded in the country-music ...

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DETROIT (Billboard) - Soul legend Solomon Burke says there's no great secret to getting major artists to write songs for his albums. "You call friends and say, 'Do you have a song for ol' Solomon ...

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 ...