Samuel Cook (January 22, 1931 – December 11, 1964), to gbajumo bi Sam Cooke, je akorin gospel, R&B, soul, ati pop ara Amerika, akorin, ati onisowo. O je gbigba bi ikan ninu awon asiwaju ati oludasile orin soul. Wo unpe bi Oba Orin Soul fun iru ohun ikorin re ati ipa to ni lori orin agbaye odeoni. Ipa re lori Orin Soul lo fa idide Aretha Franklin, Bobby Womack, Curtis Mayfield, Stevie Wonder, Marvin Gaye, o si je ki awon akorin bi Otis Redding ati James Brown o gbajumo. "Sam Cooke". Britannica online. Retrieved 2008-09-28.  Àṣìṣe ìtọ́kasí: Invalid <ref> tag; no text was provided for refs named pc17 Appiah, Kwame Anthony; Gates, Henry Louis; Gates, Henry Louis, Jr. (2004). Africana: An A-to-Z Reference of Writers, Musicians, and Artists of the African American Experience. Running Press. p. 146. ISBN 0-762-42042-1.  DeCurtis, Anthony; Henke, James (1992). The Rolling Stone Illustrated History of Rock & Roll: The Definitive History of the Most Important Artists and their Music.