In the early '70s, I started to feel like Philadelphia soul was the black-sheep brother of rock and roll. I decided to try to get away from it.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Soul was the music made by and for black people. For most of the Sixties it was thoroughly divorced from white popular music, but by the end of the decade several artists with their roots firmly in both soul and R&B traditions had crossed over.
When I got out of high school, I joined a local blues band in Philadelphia - Woody's Truck Stop.
I was introduced to soul music at a very young age - my mom was a soul singer.
I grew in the inner city, listening to Stevie Wonder, Donny Hathaway, James Brown, The Commodores - lots of soul music.
I come from an era of music when it had heart and soul.
I felt I had an opportunity to follow in the footsteps of great soul musicians of the past, who made a lot of social and political commentary through their music.
I grew up on soul music. I was a dancing little creep.
I stumbled into soul music at a very young age. It had something that really spoke to me.
I grew up listening to old soul.
I got into the soul music, but I wanted to rock. I was a rocker.