Sam Cooke: Legend is a documentary film that centers around the life of Sam Cooke. For the unversed, Sam Cooke is a legendary musical artist and civil rights activist who became a musical sensation by ...

This Grammy-winning film documents the rise of soul music legend Sam Cooke. This Grammy-winning film documents the rise of soul music legend Sam Cooke, from his beginnings as a gospel singer to his ...

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Sam Cooke, with his gospel-influenced vocals, was one of the first soul superstars and arguably the greatest voice that soul music has ever produced. He blazed the trail for others to follow as he ...

Merry Clayton is returning to her gospel roots with her first new album in decades. The Grammy Award-winning vocal powerhouse, who sang with Mick Jagger on the Rolling Stones classic “Gimme Shelter” ...

More than 40 years after his violent death, Sam Cooke is still known as the legendary soul and gospel singer who penned “A Change Is Gonna Come,” which found a new audience with the election of ...

From the late ’50s until his death in 1964, the great R&B singer Sam Cooke championed other important artists on his SAR Records label. Having launched his own career in the early ’50s as a member of ...

Cooke recorded "A Change is Gonna Come" 50 years ago this week. The story of the song is as amazing, and unsettling, as the song itself. Sam Cooke And The Song That 'Almost Scared Him' Fifty years ago ...

The Soul Stirrers feature R.H. Harris on the tracks collected on Shine on Me, from the Specialty Legends of Gospel series. “Walk around, walk around, walk around, walk around,” the background singers ...

Sam Cooke in 1964, performing on the ABC variety show Shindig! just a few months before his death that December. Fifty years ago this week, Sam Cooke strolled into a recording studio, put on a pair of ...