Photo of James Brown performing on the ABC Television program Music Scene. Wikimedia Commons.
(1933-2006) Born in Barnwell, SC, James Joseph Brown was a singer, songwriter, dancer, record producer, and bandleader. The central progenitor of funk music and a major figure of 20th-century music, he is often referred to by the honorific nicknames "Godfather of Soul," "Mr. Dynamite," and "The Hardest Working Man in Show Business."
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