Soul music has a long history of emotional love songs. Feel-good tunes to remind us how it feels when relationships are going well. Of course, many relationships fail. And that’s when we look to ...

The universal language of music has united generations of lovers since the beginning of time. Falling in and out of love, grasping at unrequited love, mourning love lost and succumbing to deep love ...

Leela James' bluesy voice dubbed her as the “God Daughter of Soul,” originally coined by the legendary Etta James. Though the two don’t actually have familial ties, Leela is carrying the torch for ...

The 1970s brought a revolution to R&B and soul music that changed everything. Artists started blending funk rhythms, social messages, and cinematic production in ways nobody had heard before. These 8 ...

NPR's Ayesha Rascoe speaks with soul singer Charles "Wigg" Walker. The Nashville native has released his latest album, "This Love is Gonna Last" at the age of 84. There's no cure-all for when life's ...

For decades, a soft-touch style of soul music has found a strong Chicano and Latino audience in Southern California. A record label based there is helping it bloom. For decades, a soft-touch style of ...

This virtuoso trumpeter bridged jazz, hip-hop, R&B and soul on his own records and in collaborations with D’Angelo, Erykah Badu and the Roots. Listen to 13 selections. Credit...Illustration by Dante ...

Old-school soul music—much like swing, reggae, British Invasion rock or countless other once-popular genres—may have lost its market share, but it has not lost its musical value. Soul has entered that ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. BEVERLY HILLS, CALIFORNIA - NOVEMBER 19: Janelle Monáe (C), winner of the Spirit of Soul Award, with Folayan Kunerede and Bobbi ...

There's no cure-all for when life's got you down. But for Charles Wigg Walker, singing from the soul can help paint the blues better. CHARLES WIGG WALKER: I think these songs will do that because when ...