Sam Cooke: Legend is a documentary film that centers around the life of Sam Cooke. For the unversed, Sam Cooke is a legendary musical artist and civil rights activist who became a musical sensation by ...

(ThyBlackMan.com) Before Sam Cooke became a household name with hits like You Send Me and A Change Is Gonna Come, he was simply a young man with a velvet voice, raised on gospel, rooted in faith, and ...

This conflation of gospel and sensuality goes back to the first gospel recording I fell in absolute love with myself in 1996, “Touch the Hem of His Garment,” by the Soul Stirrers. “Touch the Hem” is ...

Fifty years ago Saturday, Sam Cooke stepped onstage at a club in Miami. He'd come a long way to get there. Cooke began singing in a church choir on the South Side of Chicago, and went on to join the ...

In the summer of 1957, young gospel heartthrob Sam Cook added a silent E to the end of his name. We’re a little less than a third through Peter Guralnick’s Dream Boogie: The Triumph of Sam Cooke when ...

Sam Cooke the 1950s-1960s pop and gospel star behind "Wonderful World," "Chain Gang" and "A Change Is Gonna Come" is still here, in a sense. Though born in Mississippi, Sam spent his formative years ...

Fifty years ago this week, Sam Cooke strolled into a recording studio, put on a pair of headphones, and laid down the tracks for one of the most important songs of the civil rights era. Rolling Stone ...

“You look a lot like Sam Cooke.” It’s an observation that singer Bradd Marquis has heard many times before regarding his appearance. Advertisement Article continues below this ad Bradd Marquis will ...