Long heralded as a female James Brown, Sharon Jones, soul singer and bandleader of the Dap-Kings, has died at 60. "We are deeply saddened to announce that Sharon Jones has passed away after a ...

James Brown and the civil rights movement James Brown’s involvement with the civil rights movement also began in the mid-’60s. He embraced it with the same energy and dynamism he devoted to ...

The '60s are often thought of as the decade when ... emphasis on the first beat of a measure. That sound, led by James Brown, with bands like Sly & the Family Stone and the Meters following ...

If you wanted to play with James Brown, you would play by his rules ... Yet he did not open a bank account until the early ’60s, keeping his money in cardboard boxes and buried in his yard, ...

COLUMBIA, S.C. — The family of entertainer James Brown has reached ... a former partner who claimed to be Brown's wife — being locked out of his 60-acre estate while photographers captured ...

But was funk originator James Brown evil ... Gaye-collaborator Tammi Terrell was “savagely beaten” by Brown in the 60s, and in 2005, he was sued for raping a woman at gunpoint in 1988 ...

Even though James Brown died in 2006 at age 73, he continues to be influential — a new biopic about him called Get On Up, premieres in theaters Friday. In the '80s and '90s, Fresh Air recorded ...