Soul music is more than sound, it’s memory in motion. Through rhythm, roots and raw emotion, Pepperdine voices explore how ...

(ThyBlackMan.com) When it comes to contemporary soul and R&B, few artists have remained as consistent and emotionally authentic as KEM. With a voice that whispers sincerity and a catalog built on love ...

We sit down with Kev Choice, a classically trained pianist, rapper, composer, and educator, who has reshaped the Bay Area ...

If you look at the Top 10 songs on the Billboard charts, odds are you’ll find nary a love song. Tracks about heartbreak, friendship and self-empowerment abound, but straightforward ballads about ...

There’s something about listening to great old-school style gospel songs that always seems to revive a tired soul. Over the years, gospel music’s most beloved vocalists have served up songs that have ...

These forgotten songs from 1968 may not be super popular today, but they'll start spinning in your brain after hearing them again.

When Michael Eugene Archer was three years old, his older brother Luther came home to find him almost perfectly playing a Prince song on the piano. As Luther later told Okayplayer: "It was the first ...

When Devon Gilfillian moved to Nashville, he did what any musician hungry for a jam session would do — he put up a Craigslist ad. His pitch? "Please, come and hang and play with me," Gilfillian said.

Everyone recognizes the 1967 mega hit “Sweet Soul Music” but many people know nothing about the man behind the music. Or that he was gay. Arthur Conley was born on January 4, 1946, in McIntosh County, ...