Many things have gone unchanged in a secular Solomon Burke show over the past 2½ decades -- the medleys, the sanctifying, the tributes to old soul singers, the purity of his delivery. As he ...

Solomon Burke is the embodiment of -- and keeper of the flame for -- classic Southern soul music. It's a genre he helped pioneer in the early '60s, when his label mates and peers at Stax and ...

Solomon Burke, a pioneering singer-songwriter of so-called sweet soul music whose powerful ballads in the 1960s were a major influence on a generation of rock, R&B; and pop vocalists, has died. He ...

Solomon Burke, a singer whose smooth, powerful articulation and mingling of sacred and profane themes helped define soul music in the early 1960s, died on Sunday at Schiphol Airport in Amsterdam ...

Before his death in 2010, powerful baritone Solomon Burke was one of the most colorful personalities in the music business. For 55 years, Burke released 38 studio albums and had 38 charting singles.

Grammy Award-winning soul singer Solomon Burke died Sunday on a plane at Amsterdam's Schiphol airport, officials said. He was 70. This year's Austin City Limits Music Festival in Texas' capital ...

Solomon Burke, a pioneering singer-songwriter of so-called sweet soul music whose powerful ballads in the 1960s were a major influence on a generation of rock, R&B and pop vocalists, has died. He ...

If the name Solomon Burke doesn't strike a responsive chord with you, it does with the Rolling Stones, Bruce Springsteen and Bonnie Raitt. He's a legend among his fellow musicians, and this year ...

Solomon Burke was born to the sound of music in an upstairs room of a Philadelphia church and went on to become one of the greatest soul singers of the 1960s. Yet his popularity never matched that ...

Solomon Burke, the American singer, who died on October 10 aged 70, claimed to be the man for whom the term "soul music" was coined.

Burke, 70, died early Sunday of natural causes at Amsterdam's Schiphol Airport, his family said in a statement on the singer's website.

Solomon Burke was born to the sound of music in an upstairs room of a Philadelphia church and went on to become one of the greatest soul singers of the 1960s, renowned as among music's premier ...