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Editor's Note: This story has been updated. New York Times bestselling author and Harvard professor Arthur Brooks encouraged attendees at SEEK 2026 to resist the temptation as missionaries to “fight ...

He and Ann Peebles made up one of Southern soul’s most accomplished partnerships. He finally broke through as a solo act at 75. By Alex Traub Don Bryant, a soul singer who blamed a young woman with a ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Guitarist Steve Cropper, who left an indelible impression on Memphis soul music as an instrumentalist, producer and songwriter at ...

Guitarist Steve Cropper — a legendary soul guitarist who played with the likes of Otis Redding, Wilson Pickett and Sam & Dave and more — has died. He was 84. Cropper’s son confirmed his father’s death ...

To experience fado, the mournful folk music born of Lisbon’s oldest neighbourhoods, is to tap into centuries of history and bohemia. With a new state-of-the-art exhibition celebrating fado’s greatest ...

As a member of Booker T. & the MG’s and as a producer, he played a pivotal role in the rise of Stax Records, a storied force in R&B in the 1960s and ’70s. Steve Cropper in 1973. His guitar licks could ...

A top Christian artist right now has "Mississippi soul" according to his social media accounts. But Solomon Ray is AI. The account recently hit No. 1 on multiple music charts, including Billboard's ...

of Arthur the aardvark, whose teacher has announced his class has been selected to write and perform a musical for all of Elwood City to see! Everyone is thrilled at the opportunity . . . everyone but ...

Sweet Soul Music, an original musical written and directed by Victoria Reed, pays tribute to legendary soul artists such as Ray Charles, Sam Cooke, and Aretha Franklin. Auditions are underway for ...