Solomon Burke

Biography

As of the nine years age he sings with his father in the choral society of the church. At twelve years, he preaches already with the radio in Solomon' S Temple and turns in the circuit gospel under the name of The Wonder Boy Preacher. He records discs of gospel for Apollo between 1955 and 1958. Jerry Wexler engages it at Atlantic in 1960 and “King baptizes off it Drunk Rock'n'roll”. 24 years old, he is married and father of nine children.

Wexler starts with him to make record a song country: Just Out Off Reach . It then connects begun again standards country and the traditional ones of the rhythm & blues. Cry To Me , a song written by Bert Berns, is its first great success. Others will come as Everybody Needs Somebody to Love or If You Need Me , Got To Get You Off My Mind … Its songs is already taken again by the English groups The Rolling Stones or The Moody Blues. Then Burke leaves Atlantic in 1968.

It signs at Bell for which it records and produced in 1969 the album Proud Mary with the studios of Muscle Shoals. It migrates then to MGM and leaves a series new albums, of which a homage to Martin Luther King in 1974. It returns to the religion in the Années 1980, engraving titles of pure gospel and preaching with the church under the name of Bishop Burke. In 2002, it records an album of songs made up for him by Bob Dylan, Brian Wilson, Elvis Costello, Tom Waits. Although he for a long time does not attend any more the hit-parades, he continues his career, untiring, oscillating between gospel, drunk person and country, as in his last album Nashville .

Solomon Burke is an astonishing character. It is a strapping fellow with the powerful voice, rings with the fingers and sceptre with the hand, large amateur of bourbon. Divided between its musical career and its ecclesiastical career, he is also head of undertakings of undertaking and hiring of limousines. Its songs were the subject of many recoveries by Moody Blues, the Brothers Blues, Wilson Pickett, Southside Johnny, Betty Harris, etc Rolling Stones recorded some not less than four ( Everybody Needs Somebody , Cry To Me , You Can Make It If You Try and If You Need Me ).

Cry To was used to Me in the film Dirty Dancing . It entered to the Rock-and-roll Hall off Famed in 2001. In 2003, it receives the Grammy Award of the Best disc of contemporary Blues for the album Don' T Give Up One Me .

Always active, it gave its last concert in France on July 13rd, 2007 to the Festival Jazz with Sète.

Discography

Solomon Burke - 1962 (Kenwood)
Drunk Rock'n'roll “ - 1962 (Atlantic)
The Rest off Solomon Burke - 1965 (Atlantic)
I Wish I Knew - 1968 (Atlantic)
King Solomon - 1968 (Sequel)
Proud Mary - 1969
King Heavy - 1972
Electronic Magnetism - 1972
I Cuts has Dream - 1974
Back to My Roots - 1975
Music to Make Love By - 1975
Sidewalks, Fences & Walls - 1979
Lord We Need has Miracle - 1979
Get up and Do Something - 1979
King off Drunk Rock'n'roll “ - 1981
Take Me, Shake Me '' - 1983

Soul Alive! - 1984

has Exchange Is Gonna As - 1986

Love Trap - 1987

Into My Life You Came - 1990

This Is His - 1990

Homeland - 1990

Soul off the Blues - 1993

Live At House off Blues - 1994

Definition off Drunk - 1997

We Need has Miracle' - 1998
Not by Water Drank Fire This Time - 1999
Soulman - 2002
Don' T Give Up One Me - 2002
The Incredible Solomon Burke At His Best - 2002
The Apollo Album - 2003
Make C With What You Got - 2005
Nashville - 2006

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