Resultados para "Soul" en Música

This latest collection of Chicken Soup for the Soul comes to readers from the heartland, the Grand Ole Opry and the contry music capital of the World. This treasury identifies the common threads that weave the tapestry of the human spirit, the traditions of family and faith at the heart of America.

In this interconnected series, Kevin L. Whitworth traces the hidden lives of these iconic stringed instruments, following their paths from workshops and front porches to battlefields, concert halls, and cultural crossroads. Blending investigative history with lyrical storytelling, these books uncover forgotten inventors, misunderstood musicians, and the quiet revolutions that shaped the sound of American music.

In this intimate biography of the Prince of Soul, David Ritz provides a candid look at a star and a friend. Ritz had been collaborating with Marvin Gaye on his story for several years before the singer's tragic death and had conducted a series of extraordinary interviews in which Gaye discussed his deepest secrets. What emerges is a full-scale portrait of a charming but tortured artist, a brilliant singer with a divided soul.

In Move On Up, Aaron Cohen tells the remarkable story of the explosion of soul music in Chicago. Record producers and songwriters broadcast optimism for black America's future through their sophisticated, jazz-inspired productions for the Dells and many others. Musicians like Phil Cohran and the Pharaohs used their music to voice Afrocentric philosophies that challenged racism and segregation, while Maurice White of Earth, Wind, and Fire and Chaka Khan created music that inspired black consciousness.

Jean Beauvoir joined the Plasmatics in 1979, playing bass and keyboards for the most notorious band to emerge out of the New York City punk scene. By 1982, he was a member of Little Steven and the Disciples of Soul, a retro-rock revival act headed by Steven Van Zandt. The Disciples of Soul videos played on MTV during the network's earliest years, making Beauvoir one of the first Black recording artists to cross the start-up music channel's "color line".

From humble beginnings in Waco, Larry “S1” Griffin Jr. has overcome incredible odds to work with some of the most iconic musicians of a generation: Beyonce, Jay-Z, Kanye West, Madonna, and more! His principles of praying, focusing, planning, and executing have been at the forefront of his work. In 21 chapters, S1 tells stories of special moments of his journey and focuses even more on the challenging process that it took to get him to where he is today. Experience it, be inspired, and start achieving your dreams too!

The bestselling author of Shakey: Neil Young's Biography presents the first in-depth biography of the legendary soul singer Al Green. Al Green has blessed listeners with some of the biggest hits of the past fifty years. "Love and Happiness," "I'm Still in Love with You," "Let's Get Married," and...

When he died suddenly at the age of 26, Otis Redding (1941-1967) had already become the conscience of a new kind of music. Sure, Berry Gordy might have built the first black-owned music empire at Motown, but Redding was doing something as historic: mainstreaming black music within the whitest bastions of the post-Confederate south. As a result, the Redding story - still largely untold - is one of great conquest but, sadly, grand tragedy.

Songs that sell the most copies become hits, but some of those hits become something more—iconic recordings that not only inspire a generation but also change the direction of music. In Anatomy of 55 More Songs, based on his column for the Wall Street Journal, music journalist and historian Marc Myers tells the story behind fifty-five rock, pop, R&B, country, and soul-gospel hits through intimate interviews with the artists who wrote and recorded them.

Howard Bloom - called “the greatest press agent that rock and roll has ever known” by Derek Sutton, the former manager of Styx, Ten Years After, and Jethro Tull - is a science nerd who knew nothing about popular music. But he founded the biggest PR firm in the music industry and helped build or sustain the careers of our biggest rock legends, including Michael Jackson, Prince, Bob Marley, Bette Midler, Billy Joel, Billy Idol, Chaka Khan, and 100 more. What was he after? He was on a hunt for the gods inside of you and me.

Bill Withers entered the music fray as hardly an afterthought, rewrote the rules for a decade, earned a fortune, then, unable to square himself with the requisites of the music business, took his leave. When he died in 2019 at eighty-one, he was every bit the mystery he was when he started. In this remarkable biography by acclaimed author Mark Ribowsky, the most accidental music supernova is brought to life in vivid detail, told with insights from those who knew him throughout his short but incredibly impactful career.

Within the stoned soul picnic of Black music icons in the ’60s and ’70s, only one could bill himself without a blush as Moses, demanding liberation for Black men with his notions of life and self—Isaac Lee Hayes Jr., the beautifully sheen, shaded, and chain-spangled acolyte of cool, whose high-toned “lounge music” and proto-rap was soul’s highest order—heard on twenty-two albums and selling millions of records. 

A fast-paced, humorous memoir of a fan's spiritual awakening with a famous rock band. Listen to author Laura Faeth recount her extraordinary journey into group reincarnation, the Tarot, synchronicity, the healing power of sound and the profound impact music can have upon our consciousness. Targeted to spiritual seekers and adventurous music fans of all genres.

Learn some of the many physical, mental and emotional benefits of music and then hear first hand patient stories with live music at the hospital bedside. Even in the worst days of their lives, something as simple as music shifted these patients. When listened to as an audiobook, you get brief experiences of the music sung for each patient story. These are stories advocating the use of music, perhaps the most ancient form of human expression, spirituality and healing, and for maintaining its presence as a form of medicine in the hospital setting.

Folk music of the 1960s and 1970s was a genre that was always shifting and expanding, yet somehow never found room for so many. In the sounds of soul-folk, Black artists like Terry Callier and Linda Lewis began to reclaim their space in the genre, and use it to bring their own traditions to light— the jazz, the blues, the field hollers, the spirituals— and creating something wholly new, wholly theirs, wholly ours.

The Sugababes have made a huge impact in the music industry. Their influence is still felt and is stronger than ever now the original line-up reunited over ten years ago. Their hits are still played in many radio stations today.

A coming-of-age memoir about a young boy in rural Arkansas who searches for himself and his distant father through soul music Growing up in rural Arkansas, young Rashod Ollison turned to music to make sense of his life. The dysfunction, sadness, and steely resilience of his family and neighbors...

After four decades in the music industry, Michael Bolton has cemented himself as one of the most successful musicians of our time. The Soul of it All is his backstage pass into his life lived thus far - into the venues, buses, limos and hotel rooms of stardom, and finally into his home and heart. His story will go long and dive deep, not only into his self-proclaimed 'vagabond vampire' life, but also into the belly of the beast that is the music industry, with its joys, follies and torments. From a 14-year-old kid performing in dive bars to struggling to provide for his wife and kids, to finally breaking through with the Soul Provider album, Bolton has fought for and earned a life most just dream of.

New York Times best-selling author Dr. Sha offers a musical treasure straight from the divine in Divine Soul Symphony of Yin Yang.

Saving Your Soul is a labor of love from coach Rho. It offers sound guidance and practical tools from her years of experience in the entertainment industry and beyond. Every creative person can benefit from these insights, as well as anyone looking for solid support in their life’s journey. This book tackles important subjects that are vital to creatives’ ability to thrive. It covers exploring how to diversify, how to protect your work, overseeing the business of art, learning the key players in the industry, getting to grips with contracts, and more.