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Subject
| - Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductees
- James Brown
- 21st-century American singers
- Grammy Award winners
- Cancer survivors
- American people of Chinese descent
- 2006 deaths
- Polydor Records artists
- 20th-century American singers
- American people of Native American descent
- African-American composers
- African-American male singers
- American keyboardists
- American soul singers
- Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award winners
- Kennedy Center honorees
- Songwriters from Georgia (U.S. state)
- American record producers
- 1933 births
- African-American male dancers
- African-American rock musicians
- African-Americans' civil rights activists
- American drummers
- American funk keyboardists
- American funk singers
- American male composers
- American male dancers
- American multi-instrumentalists
- American people convicted of drug offenses
- American rhythm and blues singer-songwriters
- American people convicted of assault
- American people convicted of robbery
- American expatriates in Nigeria
- American expatriates in Zambia
- American organists
- American robbers
- American soul keyboardists
- Deaths from pneumonia
- Federal Records artists
- Infectious disease deaths in Georgia (U.S. state)
- James Brown Orchestra members
- King Records artists
- Musicians from Augusta, Georgia
- Musicians from South Carolina
- People from Barnwell County, South Carolina
- People from Toccoa, Georgia
- Recipients of American gubernatorial pardons
- Smash Records artists
- Songwriters Hall of Fame inductees
- Songwriters from South Carolina
- The J.B.'s members
- The Famous Flames members
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abstract
| - American singer, songwriter and musician, born 3 May 1933 near Barnwell, South Carolina, USA and died 25 December 2006 in Atlanta, Georgia, USA.James Brown was raised in poverty in Augusta, Georgia. In 1953 James Brown joined the Gospel Starlighters, a vocal quartet led by Bobby Byrd, after completing a four-year stint in prison for robbery. As Brown became the focal point of the act, the group changed its name to 'The Famous Flames' and its focus from gospel to R&B. In 1955 The Famous Flames record %22Please Please Please%22 at the studio of WIBB in Macon, Georgia. In 1958 James Brown's first #1 hit, 'Try Me,' is released. It was the best-selling R&B single of 1958, and the first of 17 chart-topping R&B singles by Brown over the next two decades. 1965: James Brown records %22Papa's Got a Brand New Bag,%22 a revolutionary single that ushers in a whole new era of soul music. Released that summer, it tops the R&B chart for eight weeks and even cracks the pop Top Ten. 1971: James Brown signed with Polydor Records, for which he recorded extensively throughout the decade. 1974: The Payback, the most successful of James Brown's Seventies albums—many of which were double-LPs with lengthy, extended tracks—makes its debut on Billboard's album chart. It is the only gold-certified (500,000 copies sold) album of his career. 1984: Bronx DJ Afrika Bambaataa teams up with James Brown to record the anthemic single %22Unity.%22 1986: %22Living in America,%22 the theme song from Rocky IV, reaches #4 on Billboard's Hot 100 chart, becoming James Brown's biggest pop hit since %22I Got You (I Feel Good)%22 went to #3 in 1965. 1992: James Brown receives a Lifetime Achievement Award at the 34th annual Grammy Awards.Inducted into Rock And Roll Hall of Fame in 1986 (Performer). Inducted into Songwriters Hall of Fame in 2000.Brown was hospitalized with pneumonia and died on Christmas day 2006.
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| - James Joseph Brown (May 3, 1933 – December 25, 2006) was an American singer and dancer. The founding father of funk music and a major figure of 20th-century popular music and dance, he is often referred to as %22The Godfather of Soul%22. In a career that spanned six decades, Brown influenced the development of several music genres.Brown began his career as a gospel singer in Toccoa, Georgia. Joining an R&B vocal group called the Avons that later evolved to become The Flames, Brown served as the group's lead singer. First coming to national public attention in the late 1950s as a member of the singing group The Famous Flames with the hit ballads %22Please, Please, Please%22 and %22Try Me%22, Brown built a reputation as a tireless live performer with the Famous Flames and his backing band, sometimes known as the James Brown Band or the James Brown Orchestra. Brown's success peaked in the 1960s with the live album Live at the Apollo and hit singles such as %22Papa's Got a Brand New Bag%22, %22I Got You (I Feel Good)%22 and %22It's a Man's Man's Man's World%22. During the late 1960s, Brown moved from a continuum of blues and gospel-based forms and styles to a profoundly %22Africanized%22 approach to music-making that influenced the development of funk music. By the early 1970s, Brown had fully established the funk sound after the formation of The J.B.'s with records such as %22Get Up (I Feel Like Being a) Sex Machine%22 and %22The Payback%22. Brown also became notable for songs of social commentary, including the 1968 hit %22Say It Loud - I'm Black and I'm Proud%22. Brown continued to perform and record until his death in 2006 from congestive heart failure.Brown recorded 16 singles that peaked at number-one on the Billboard R&B charts. Brown also holds the record for the most singles listed on the Billboard Hot 100 chart which did not reach number-one. Brown has been honored by many institutions including inductions into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Songwriters Hall of Fame. In Joel Whitburn's analysis of the Billboard R&B charts from 1942 to 2010, James Brown is ranked as number one in The Top 500 Artists. Brown is ranked seventh on the music magazine Rolling Stone's list of its 100 greatest artists of all time. Rolling Stone has also cited Brown as the most sampled artist of all time.
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- James
- Brown, James
- J.B.
- J. Brown
- B. Brown
- JB
- J. B.
- J Brown
- James Brown - Minister Of New New Super Heavy Funky
- B.Jones
- Brow
- Brown James
- Godfather Of Soul James Brown
- J,.Brown
- J- Brown
- J. Browm
- J. Vrown
- J.Brown
- Jame
- James Brown & The Hustle Rats
- James Brown - Minister Of New New Super Heavy Funk
- James Brown - The Creator
- James Brown - The Godfather Of Soul
- James Brown - The Hitman - The Godfather Of Soul
- James Brown - The King Of Soul
- James Brown Productions
- James Brown-Minister Of New New Super Heavy Funk
- James Brown-The Creator
- James Brwon
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