SOUL SOUND

A genre that often takes the form of a love song and mainly other emotional factors composed by the artists. Soul music is style of an African Music that is influenced from another genre called rhythm and blues and is characterized by other influences such as gospel and is emphasized mainly on the rhythm and lastly the most used instrument to the specified genre is mainly trumpets, saxophones as well as trombones.

Soul generally emphasizes the other genres related to the African American music’s roots which is the gospel and blues. The style of the genre is known for its searing vocal intensity, followed by the use of church-rooted call-and-response, as well as other extravagant melisma which are mainly used in religious music. A well-recognized artist in the specified genre was given the title “Queen of Soul” in which the masses realized its full flowering in the work of Aretha Franklin.

She achieved six years of notable work on the Columbia Record and began her glorious reign in 1967 accompanied by her first hits for Atlantic Records entitled “I Never Loved a Man (the Way I Love You)” and “Respect.” There are also other versions such as The Motown sound, which came of age in the 1960s, must also be considered soul music. In addition to its lighter, more pop-oriented artists such as the Supremes, the Motown label produced artists with genuine gospel grit called the Contours “Do You Love Me” in 1962, Marvin Gaye’s “Can I Get a Witness” in 1963, and Stevie Wonder’s “Uptight Everything’s Alright” published in 1966.