James Brown

About James Brown

He was born on May 3 of 1933 on a farm in Barnwell, South Carolina, within a poor family in a slum. This forced Brown to play from adolescence all different types of jobs. Since Brown was abandoned by his mother, he grew up with his father, who was an itinerant worker, until it ended in Augusta, where an aunt ran a boarding house that also served as timba and brothel. With little education, child Brown tried to make living shining shoes, picking cotton and stealing car parts. Before he was twenty years had already been arrested for armed robbery and was sentenced for it to between 8 and 16 years in prison (as he was still a minor, but they locked him up and tried him as he reached the age of criminal). It was a good prisoner and after three years and one day it was released and spent over three years in a reformatory. That was when he hosted the family of Bobby Byrd, the singer who shot him to stardom. They shared in the group stages The Famous Flames (Lethem, pp: 45-56).

Peak of career

In 1965, the stores did the most successful singles, Brown; such as the piercing ballad, It's a Man's, Man's, Man's World. In the same year, Brown wrote and first sang the song that became his trademark throughout the world, " I Got You (I Feel Good) ", and his groundbreaking composition" Papa's Got a Brand New Bag "was awarded" Grammy. " In total hits the singer said in the Billboard Hot 100 ninety-nine times, but he never reached the first place. In the wake, of the commercial success of a musician started buying radio stations, and established several new labels.

It is considered that it was Brown made the first song in the style of funk, but historians of music are arguing which one was the earliest. During this period, the artist away from the melody and the melody in the direction of punctuated recitative. It is no coincidence the earliest songs in hip-hop often been built on sampling funk hits Brown, particularly his early work Funky Drummer. It is no exaggeration to say that without Brown, there would be no funk or hip-hop (Brown & Eliot, pp: 125-141).

After a major dance hit in the year 1970 Sex Machine Brown deploys his work in the direction of less dynamic rhythms. The singer's successors as kings of funk become Sly Stone and George Clinton. Brown works of the 1970s focused primarily on African-American audience, the repertoire is dominated by songs like Say It Loud I'm Black and I'm Proud. Artist performs much outside the U.S., including Zaire and other African countries.

In 1953, he joined the group of gospel The Star lighters. With him in the group were transformed from gospel to R & B. Later the group's name became The Famous Flames. In 1955 released the single "Please, Please, Please, in 1958, he launched the first number one James Brown, "Try Me" and ...