James Joseph Brown (Barnwell, may 3, 1933 – december 25, Atlanta, 2006), commonly known as "The Godfather of Soul" and "The Hardest Working Man in Show Business", was a Grammy Award-winning American entertainer. Brown is considered one of the most important and controversial figures of the 20th century and the development of soul music. He is also regarded as the co-originator of the funk genre.
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Biography[Edit][]
Youth[Edit][]
Brown would have been born in Barnwell, South Carolina in 1933, but some sources call 1928 as his birth year and Pulaski, Tennessee as his birth place. Because his parents could not care for him he grew up in his aunt's brothel, in the1930s crisis in Augusta (Georgia). At the age of 16, he was convicted of an armed robbery. After three years he was the intercession of Bobby Byrd released on condition that he is no longer in Augusta would show and that he would find a job. After a short career inboxing and baseball , he sought his salvation in music.
Marriages[Edit][]
He was four times married; sequentially with Deidre Jenkins, Velma Warren (1954 - 1969) and Adrienne Rodriguez. This last marriage held twelve years, until his wife died in 2002 . In that year married James Brown one last time, with Tomi Rae Hynie.
Career[Edit][]
During his career, he has influenced many musicians. In the 1960s he was imitated by other artists. In the mid- 1970s several musicians left his band and went more thefunk side on, à la George Clinton. In the late ' 70s and ' 80s was Brown a source of inspiration for rap, breakdance and hip hop, DJs as Grandmaster Flash samplesfrequently used by Browns work. In the 1980s he was the most sampled artist in the world. He sang with the Egyptian singer Hakim ' Leila ' (2004).
James Brown is often The Godfather of Soul, Soul Brother Number One and called Mr. Dynamite . On 23 January 1986 Brown was included in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and on 14 november 2006 in the UK Music Hall of Fame.
In addition to his musical career, Brown also to a business career, and he built an empire of radio stations, hotels, clubs and restaurants on. when his success waned, he was forced to sell almost all his business empire.
Final stage career and death[Edit][]
At the end of the 80 's had to spend several years in prison, Brown again after he had threatened people with a rifle and wanted to avoid his arrest. After his release in 1991, he toured as living legend about the world.
In december 2004 was established at Brown prostate cancer . He died at the age of 73 on Christmas day 2006 at 07: 45 pm CET, at the hospital a day earlier after he was recorded with a pneumonia. The cause of death was congestive heart failure caused by pneumonia. In March 2007 it was announced that James Brown's body is interred in a crypt at the home of one of his daughters in Columbia (South Carolina).
Discography[Edit][]
Albums[Edit][]
- 1956 Please Please Please
- 1959 Try Me!
- Think 1960
- 1961 James Browns Presents His Band
- The Amazing James Brown 1961
- 1961 Night Train
- 1962 Shout & Shimmy
- 1962 Tours the u.s.a.
- Jump Around 1962
- 1963 Live at the Apollo (1963)
- Prisoner of Love 1963
- 1964 Pure Dynamite! Live at the Royal
- Showtime 1964
- 1964 Out of Sight
- Grits & Soul 1964
- 1965 Papa's Got a Brand New Bag
- 1965 James Brown James Brown Plays
- 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
- Mighty Instrumentals 1966
- 1966 James Brown Sings Christmas Songs
- 1967 Sings Raw Soul
- Live at the Garden 1967
- 1967 James Brown Plays the Real Thing
- Cold Sweat 1967
- 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
- it's a Mother 1969
- 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
- Sex Machine 1970
- 1970 Hey America
- 1971 She Is Funky Down Here
- 1971 Hot Pants
- Revolution of the Mind 1971 (live)
- 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
- Hell 1974
- 1974 Reality
- 1975 Sex Machine Today
- 1975 everybody's Doin ' the Hustle
- 1976 Get up Offa That Thing (1976)
- 1976 Body heat
- 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 (live)
- 1980 Soul Syndrome
- 1981 Nonstop!
- 1981 The Third Coming
- 1981 Live in New York
- 1981 Special
- 1982 Mean on the Scene (live)
- 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
- I'm Back 1998
- 1999 The Merry Christmas Album
- 2001 Get up Offa That Thing (2001) (live)
- Super Bad-Live 2002
- Startime Live 2002
- 2002 In Concert (live)
Charts[Edit][]
Albums[Edit][]
| Album (s) with any charts in the
the Dutch Album Top 100 |
Date of
appear |
Date of
entry |
Highest
position |
Number Of
weeks |
Comments |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dead on the heavy funk 1974-1976 | 22-03-1986 | 60 | 4 | Compilation album | |
| The great James Brown | 02-04-1988 | 20 | 21 | Compilation album | |
| I'm real | 25-06-1988 | 34 | 11 |
Singles[Edit][]
| Single (s) with any charts in the
the Dutch Top 40 |
Date of
appear |
Date of
entry |
Highest
position |
Number Of
weeks |
Comments |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| It's a man 's, man 's, man's world | 1966 | 02-07-1966 | 19 | 6 | |
| I don't want nobody to give me nothing (Open up the door, I'll get it myself) | 1969 | 03-05-1969 | tip | - | |
| Mother popcorn (You got to have a mother for me) " | 1969 | 09-08-1969 | 21 | 7 | |
| World (Part 1) | 1969 | 27-09-1969 | tip | - | |
| I feel all right | 1970 | 21-03-1970 | tip | - | |
| I feel all right | 1970 | 09-05-1970 | 31 | 4 | |
| (Get up I feel like being a) Sex machine (Part 1) | 1970 | 29-08-1970 | 8 | 9 | |
| Call me super bad (Parts 1 & 2) | 1970 | 21-11-1970 | 32 | 4 | |
| Get up, get into it, get involved | 1971 | 27-02-1971 | tip7 | - | |
| Hot pants (Part 1) (She got to use what she got to get what she wants) | 1971 | 14-08-1971 | 19 | 6 | |
| There is it (Part 1) | 1972 | 15-07-1972 | 22 | 4 | |
| Get on the good foot | 1972 | 11-11-1972 | tip14 | - | |
| Woman (Part 1) | 1974 | 16-02-1974 | 7 | 9 | |
| (Get up I feel like being a) Sex machine (Part 1) | 1975 | 10-05-1975 | tip5 | - | |
| Living in America | 1986 | 01-02-1986 | 9 | 9 | |
| Gravity | 1986 | 25-10-1986 | 30 | 4 | |
| The payback mix part one | 1988 | 11-06-1988 | 28 | 4 | |
| I'm real | 1988 | 23-07-1988 | 38 | 3 | with Full Force |
| Jealousy | 2006 | 30-01-2006 | 30 | 6 | with Martin Solveig |
Radio 2 Top 2000[Edit][]
| Number (s) with markings
in the Radio 2 Top 2000 |
' 99 | ' 00 | ' 01 | ' 02 | ' 03 | ' 04 | ' 05 | ' 06 | ' 07 | ' 08 | ' 09 | ' 10 | ' 11 | ' 12 | ' 13 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| I Feel Good (I Got You) | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1603 | 1734 | 2000 | 1761 | 1531 | 1550 | - | - |
| It's a man 's, man 's, man's world | 813 | 1385 | 1474 | 888 | 987 | 903 | 1085 | 1300 | 1053 | 1085 | 1022 | 830 | 569 | 771 | 771 |
| (Get up I feel like being a) Sex machine (Part 1) | 658 | 1118 | 1068 | 892 | 661 | 798 | 1090 | 1077 | 982 | 934 | 876 | 852 | 985 | 1001 | 1081 |
Filmography[Edit][]
- Mean Johnny Barrows (1976)
- The Blues Brothers (1980)
- Doctor Detroit (1983)
- Rocky IV (1985)
- Blues Brothers 2000 (1998)
- The Tuxedo (2002) here is precipitated and then Brown by Jackie Chan Jackie steals his action.
Biography[Edit][]
R.J. Smith, The one: the life and music of James Brown, Gotham Books, 2012, ISBN 978-1592406579
Trivia[Edit][]
- His wife Adrienne complained repeatedly to him because of abuse. She died during a cosmetic surgery.
- Brown sat 26 months caught a wild police pursuit in 1988.
- In 1991 the band scored a number one hit La Style with the song James Brown Is Dead and Holy Noise a top 10 hit with the answer James Brown Is Still Alive, in which Traumatic Stress the number Who the fuck is James Brown? was released and with it scored a top 10 hit.