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Karamba
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 Posted - 25 Dec 2006 : 15:50:15
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Godfather of Soul, James Brown dies Monday December 25, 12:38 PM
Soul legend, James Brown, the 'Godfather of Soul' has died at the of age 73.
Brown had been admitted to hospital in Atlanta over the weekend for treatment of severe pneumonia.
He is credited with bringing funk into mainstream music and influencing a new generation of black music that spawned rap and hip-hop.
The singer had more than 119 chart hits in the US and recorded over 50 albums. He was inducted into the Rock 'n Roll Hall of Fame and received a lifetime achievement award from the Grammys in 1992.
Brown also built a successful business empire, including a string of radio stations and his own production company, and owned a fleet of expensive cars and his own plane.
He even played the role of a manic preacher in the hit 1980 movie 'The Blues Brothers.'
He once said: "Soul is all the hard knocks, all the punishment the black man has had, all the unfulfilled dreams that must come true."
He combined his soul-rending music with a theatrical delivery. He also developed a trademark routine in which he would keep coming back on stage after a show and sing a few lines of "Please, Please, Please" with the sweat pouring from his bare-chested body.
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Cornelius
Sweden
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Posted - 25 Dec 2006 : 17:58:04
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JAMES BROWN: Dayan Ha Emet
JB joins the heavenly Soul Choir
http://www.google.se/search?hl=sv&q=James+Brown&btnG=Google-s%C3%B6kning&meta=
African American media:
http://www.google.se/search?hl=sv&q=African-American+media&btnG=S%C3%B6k&meta=
BBC
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/6208615.stm
Black American media
http://www.google.se/search?hl=sv&q=Black+American+media&btnG=S%C3%B6k&meta=
CBS
http://www.showbuzz.cbsnews.com/stories/2006/12/25/people_late_great/main2294661.shtml
CNN
http://edition.cnn.com/2006/SHOWBIZ/Music/12/25/james.brown.obit.ap/index.html
Eulogies to follow from me and mine, for emotions shall flow more.....than before or now. Heart is there with him and family and in time will return to you and me…
“The Godfather of soul’s influence was magnetic and extensive – took me to the Apollo theatre in New York City in 1976.... it took the whole world peacefully and not by storm…..
In 1971 I toured with a Concert Party in Ghana to Fanti and Ashanti villages, some of which did not yet have electricity, some of which did and we had our generator with us - all we could offer was some AMPONSAH, and the usual theatre with the sewing machine as dowry and the farce and cultural parables based on that rite of passage - getting married traditionally - but when it came to the AMPONSAH, the villagers wanted NONE OF it ( this was after "SOUL TO SOUL - pity that soul brother Number one was not there - Wilson Picket and CO deputised from him - but our concert party was not very warmly welcomed: WE WANT JAMES BROWN MUSIC (and DANCE !!! they said and even the little boys and girls were doing their James Brown thing Sister Omega, thanks to electricity. Thanks to electricity you could have heard JB moaning please and hollering loud (next to Marvin Gaye’s “What’s happening brother?) from any bar or restaurant or hotel in Ghana in the early 70s including the “Don’t Mind Your Wife Chop Bar" (for chronic bachelors and oppressed husbands) JAMES BROWN said the kids and started doing some of his breaks and dances....those were the Black Power times in Ghana (with 600 Dashiki African–Americans travelling annually, all the way to look for roots, visit long lost brothers and sisters, take a look at those awful castles (Christiansborg, Elmina,) and get down, culturally, politically after all Garveyite Black Zionism = the right of the African Diaspora black to live in Africa, by repatriation, voluntary emigration etc…… ( my wife was not the most popular person with all my African American friends in those black power times – none could say that I was an uncle tom - so some ignored her , some of the soul sisters asked me “ Now What’s wrong with ME , Cornelius? Marrying a white woman is a denial of all black women" .... too late for the date sis....
JAMES BROWN! This was soul brother number one’s popularity in the hinterland heart of Ghana in villages north of George Preston's Twifu Hemang….. And there we were, bringing traditional African culture, traditional Ghanaian music etc and were flatly rejected for the latest, JAMES BROWN…. Yes indeed, Malcolm X had talked to youngsters in Ghana (at our Legon University in, was it 63?) sometime around his pilgrimage to Mecca (Hajj), after which he fully embraced Sunni Islam and immediately after which he (Malcolm) increasing became PAN-AFRICANIST – at which point in his life he was assassinated by you know who is opposed to all that he stood for ----- not Louis Farrakhan anyway) and he had said that the emerging African nation should fight for their OPPRESSED soul brothers and relatives in the United States, should use ALL their influence to FIGHT against the segregationist policies in the then United States….
http://se.search.yahoo.com/search?fr=fp-tab-web-t-1&ei=ISO-8859-1&p=JAMES+BROWN&meta=vc%3D
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