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	== Summary ==		== Summary ==
	James Brown was an American singer and bandleader central to the development of [[Soul\|soul]] and [[Funk\|funk]]. The interaction of voice, bodily movement and tightly organized rhythm made his performances influential across popular music.<ref name="brown-smithsonian">[https://www.si.edu/spotlight/james-brown Smithsonian Institution: James Brown, Godfather of Soul]. Accessed 23 October 2026.</ref>		James Brown was an American singer and bandleader central to the development of [[Soul\|soul]] and [[Funk\|funk]]. The interaction of voice, bodily movement and tightly organized rhythm made his performances influential across popular music.<ref name="brown-smithsonian">[https://www.si.edu/spotlight/james-brown Smithsonian Institution: James Brown, Godfather of Soul]. Accessed 23 October 2026.</ref>

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== Summary ==
James Brown was an American singer and bandleader central to the development of [[Soul|soul]] and [[Funk|funk]]. The interaction of voice, bodily movement and tightly organized rhythm made his performances influential across popular music.<ref name="brown-smithsonian">[https://www.si.edu/spotlight/james-brown Smithsonian Institution: James Brown, Godfather of Soul]. Accessed 23 October 2026.</ref>

== Life and career ==
His early singing in gospel quartets drew on the expressive force of Black church performance. Secular songs carried that intensity into a wider entertainment world. In 1986 he entered the first class of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, recognizing a career built around recording and demanding live work.<ref name="brown-smithsonian" /><ref name="brown-hall">[https://rockhall.com/inductees/james-brown/ Rock and Roll Hall of Fame: James Brown]. Accessed 23 October 2026.</ref>

== Music and style ==
His bands developed a stripped-down, rhythm-centered approach in which repeated figures, sharp accents and vocal cues created momentum. Ballads could become highly theatrical performances, while other songs affirmed Black pride. Smithsonian's account traces the reach of his rhythmic language into [[Reggae|reggae]], [[Afrobeat]] and [[Hip-hop|hip-hop]].<ref name="brown-smithsonian" />

== Works and performances ==
''Live at the Apollo'' (1963) captures 'I'll Go Crazy', 'Think' and 'Night Train'. The Library of Congress identifies it as a recording that conveyed his stage energy to a larger listening public. 'I Got You (I Feel Good)' supplies another well-known example of his compact, rhythmically driven songcraft.<ref name="brown-apollo">[https://www.loc.gov/programs/national-recording-preservation-board/recording-registry/descriptions-and-essays/african-americans-on-the-recording-registry/ Library of Congress: Live at the Apollo, National Recording Registry description]. Accessed 23 October 2026.</ref><ref name="brown-hall" />

Selected recordings in MuGlobe:
* [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ucY4mAIEMQs Sex Machine — BBC Four Sessions 2004] — [[Funk]].

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