{"id":119,"date":"2021-09-19T09:38:07","date_gmt":"2021-09-19T09:38:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/o5go.com\/music\/?page_id=119"},"modified":"2021-09-19T09:38:08","modified_gmt":"2021-09-19T09:38:08","slug":"sam-cooke","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/o5go.com\/music\/sam-cooke\/","title":{"rendered":"Sam Cooke"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Sam Cooke<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/m.youtube.com\/results?search_query=Sam+Cooke+playlist\">https:\/\/m.youtube.com\/results?search_query=Sam+Cooke+playlist<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Samuel Cook[3]\u00a0(January 22, 1931\u00a0\u2013 December 11, 1964),[3]\u00a0known professionally as\u00a0Sam Cooke, was an American singer, songwriter, and entrepreneur. Considered to be a pioneer and one of the most influential\u00a0soul\u00a0artists of all time, Cooke is commonly referred to as the &#8220;King of Soul&#8221; for his distinctive vocals, notable contributions to the genre and high significance in popular music.[4]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Cooke was born in&nbsp;Mississippi&nbsp;and later relocated to&nbsp;Chicago&nbsp;with his family at a young age, where he began singing as a child and joined&nbsp;the Soul Stirrers&nbsp;as lead singer in the 1950s. Going solo in 1957, Cooke released a string of hit songs, including &#8220;You Send Me&#8221;, &#8220;A Change Is Gonna Come&#8221;, &#8220;Cupid&#8221;, &#8220;Wonderful World&#8221;, &#8220;Chain Gang&#8221;, &#8220;Twistin&#8217; the Night Away&#8221;, &#8220;Bring It On Home to Me&#8221;, and &#8220;Good Times&#8221;. During his eight-year career, Cooke released 29 singles that charted in the&nbsp;Top 40&nbsp;of the&nbsp;Billboard&nbsp;Pop Singles&nbsp;chart, as well as 20 singles in the Top Ten of&nbsp;Billboard&#8217;s&nbsp;Black Singles&nbsp;chart.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In 1964, Cooke was shot and killed by the manager of a motel in&nbsp;Los Angeles.[5]&nbsp;After an inquest and investigation, the courts ruled Cooke&#8217;s death to be a&nbsp;justifiable homicide;[6]&nbsp;his family has since questioned the circumstances of his death.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Cooke&#8217;s pioneering contributions to soul music contributed to the rise of&nbsp;Aretha Franklin,&nbsp;Bobby Womack,&nbsp;Al Green,&nbsp;Curtis Mayfield,&nbsp;Stevie Wonder,&nbsp;Marvin Gaye, and&nbsp;Billy Preston, and popularized the work of&nbsp;Otis Redding&nbsp;and&nbsp;James Brown.[7][8][9]&nbsp;AllMusic&nbsp;biographer Bruce Eder wrote that Cooke was &#8220;the inventor of soul music&#8221;, and possessed &#8220;an incredible natural singing voice and a smooth, effortless delivery that has never been surpassed&#8221;.[10]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Cooke was also a central part of the\u00a0Civil Rights Movement, using his influence and popularity with the white and black population to fight for the cause. 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