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 ...

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. Yet his popularity never matched that of ...

Solomon Burke, a life-long preacher and revered soul singer who personified the term “living large,” died Sunday at Amsterdam’s Schiphol Airport. He was 70. He had just arrived on a flight from Los ...

It is no exaggeration or overstatement to label Peter Guralnick "America's finest music biographer," as well as one of the nation's premier writers on any subject. Guralnick's heralded books include a ...

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AMSTERDAM – US soul singer Solomon Burke died at Schiphol airport in Amsterdam yesterday morning, aged 70, after flying in from… AMSTERDAM – US soul singer Solomon Burke died at Schiphol airport in ...

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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. By THR Staff AMSTERDAM — U.S. soul singer ...

Many things have gone unchanged in a secular Solomon Burke show over the past 2½ decades -- the medleys, the sanctifying, the tributes to old soul singers, the purity of his delivery. As he mounts a ...

Grammy Award-winning soul singer Solomon Burke died Sunday on a plane at Amsterdam's Schiphol airport, officials said. He was 70. Actor Morgan Freeman has agreed to help kick off the first Blues at ...