James Brown

James Brown (3 Mei 1933 – 25 Desember 2006) was 'n Amerikaanse musikant, sanger en liedjieskrywer. Hy word as een van die beste soul-sangers nóg beskou en was bekend vir sy opwindende verhoogoptredes. Sy liedjies sluit in Papas Got a Brand New Bag (1965) en Sex Machine (1970). Hy was as The Godfather of Soul bekend.

Lewensloop 
James Joseph Brown jr. is op 3 Mei 1933 in Barnwell, Suid-Carolina gebore, maar het in Augusta in Georgia grootgeword. Hy is talle kere deur die polisie in hegtenis geneem. Toe hy 16 jaar oud was, is hy aan gewapende roof skuldig bevind, waarvoor hy drie jaar in 'n jeugsentrum aanhou is. Sy ander oortredings sluit aanranding in.

Vier van Brown se albums is in die Rolling Stone-tydskrif se 2003-lys van die 500 beste albums van alle tye gelys. Brown se bekendste liedjie is Get Up (I Feel Like Being a) Sex Machine.

Brown is op 25 Desember 2006 aan longontsteking en hartsiektes in Atlanta oorlede. 'n Openbare gedenkdiens is in die Apollo-teater vir hom gehou. Ikone soos Michael Jackson, Stevie Wonder en Prince het sy begrafnis bygewoon.

Diskografie 

 1956 Please Please Please
 1959 Try Me!
 1960 Think
 1961 James Browns Presents His Band
 1961 The Amazing James Brown
 1961 Night Train
 1962 Shout & Shimmy
 1962 Tours the U.S.A.
 1962 Jump Around
 1963 Live at the Apollo (1963)
 1963 Prisoner of Love
 1964 Pure Dynamite! Live at the Royal
 1964 Showtime
 1964 Out of Sight
 1964 Grits & Soul
 1965 Papa's Got a Brand New Bag
 1965 James Brown Plays James Brown
 1965 Papa's Got a Brand New Bag
 1966 I Got You (I Feel Good)
 1966 James Brown Plays New Breed
 1966 It's a Man's Man's Man's World
 1966 Handful of Soul
 1966 Mighty Instrumentals
 1966 James Brown Sings Christmas Songs
 1967 Sings Raw Soul
 1967 Live at the Garden
 1967 James Brown Plays the Real Thing
 1967 Cold Sweat
 1968 I Can't Stand Myself When You Touch Me
 1968 I Got the Feelin
 1968 James Brown Plays Nothing But Soul
 1968 Live at the Apollo (1968)
 1968 James Brown Sings out of Sight
 1968 James Brown Presents His Show of Tomorrow
 1968 Soul Party
 1968 A Soulful Christmas
 1968 A Thinking About Little Willie
 1969 Say It Loud, I'm Black and I'm Proud
 1969 Gettin' Down to It
 1969 It's a Mother
 1969 The Popcorn
 1969 Plays Rhythm & Blues
 1969 Excitement
 1970 Ain't It Funky
 1970 Soul on Top
 1970 It's a New Day – So Let a Man Come In
 1970 Sex Machine
 1970 Hey America
 1971 She Is Funky Down Here
 1971 Hot Pants
 1971 Revolution of the Mind (lewendig)
 1971 Super Bad (live)
 1971 Soul Brother No. 1
 1972 There It Is
 1972 Get on the Good Foot
 1973 Black Caesar
 1973 Slaughter's Big Rip-Off
 1973 The Payback
 1974 Hell
 1974 Reality
 1975 Sex Machine Today
 1975 Everybody's Doin' the Hustle
 1976 Get up Offa That Thing (1976)
 1976 Bodyheat
 1976 Hot
 1977 Mutha's Nature
 1977 Strangers
 1978 Jam/1980's
 1978 Take a Look at Those Cakes
 1979 The Original Disco Man
 1979 Mister Dynamite
 1980 People
 1980 Hot on the One (lewendig)
 1980 Soul Syndrome
 1981 Nonstop!
 1981 The Third Coming
 1981 Live in New York
 1981 Special
 1982 Mean on the Scene (lewendig)
 1983 Bring It On!
 1985 Live in Concert
 1986 Gravity
 1988 I'm Real
 1991 Love Over-Due
 1992 Universal James
 1995 Live at the Apollo 1995
 1998 I'm Back
 1999 The Merry Christmas Album
 2001 Get up Offa That Thing (2001) (lewendig)
 2002 Super Bad – Live
 2002 Startime Live
 2002 In Concert (lewendig)

Verwysings

Eksterne skakels 
 
 Brown se amptelike webtuiste

Amerikaanse musici
Geboortes in 1933
Sterftes in 2006