A Change Is Gonna Come Tour’ staring multi-award winning singer-songwriter, Bradd Marquis kicks off in Texas on January 18.

Sam Cooke began his career as a gospel singer, becoming the lead vocalist for the Soul Stirrers, one of the nation's top gospel acts, at age 19. But six years later, Cooke left gospel for the world of ...

Singer Sam Cooke wrote one of the most profound songs of the 1960s, but it wasn’t an easy decision for him, NPR’s Arun Rath reports. Suggested Reading How Trump’s Power is Crumbling and The Resistance ...

Sam Cooke the 1950s-1960s pop and gospel star behind "Wonderful World," "Chain Gang" and "A Change Is Gonna Come" is still here, in a sense. Though born in Mississippi, Sam spent his formative years ...

“Voices ought not be measured by how pretty they are. Instead, they matter only if they convince you that they are telling the truth.” — Sam Cooke *This week marks the 60th anniversary of the death of ...

Legendary R&B and soul singer Bobby Womack is known as much for his scandalous love life as he is for his catalog of hit songs. He shocked the music world when he married Barbara Cooke, the widow of ...

Editor’s Note: Don Wilcock is currently writing his memoirs, looking back at 51 years starting with Sounds from The World, a column he wrote for “grunts” in the rice patties of Vietnam in what was ...

Cooke grew up in Chicago's Bronzeville neighborhood. He had 34 Top 40 R&B hits in his career and was one of the original inductees into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. "You Send Me," "Wonderful World, ...