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The soul music comes from blues and gospel. Blues simply speaking stands for the more lust oriented style of music and gospel for the obvious more spiritual part. An odd combination maybe but it worked very well indeed.

Soul is exactly what the word means, music from the depth of ones soul, a music that speaks to the inner part of peoples mind. Back in time there were different styles of soulmusic more or less influenced by blues and gospel. In southern USA existed the southern soul and in the north the Chicago soul, the former more influenced by gospel than the latter.

During the 50:s and 60:s the music had its big days, with artists like Aretha Franklin, Sam Cook and Otis Redding (see picture) to name just a few.

In the late 60:s the music decline, but it didn't go away, it more transformed and was picked up by other musicstyles that created new combinations. Soul is still alive, there's no doubt about that, and the style producing new, fresh soul music on several independent companies, they, in my opinion hold on better than most other record companies to the "old" soul.

Soul from the late 70:s and early 80:s is what I most of all appreciate, especially when mixed with funk. The variety of groups is big, Glenn Jones, Kashif, Evelyn King, The Dramatics, Alexander O´Neal, George Benson, Mtume, Earth wind and fire, Whispers, Kool and the gang and many many more.