[Ernesto]

Esta madrugada  ha fallecido a los 73 años de edad James brown ,el padrino del Soul victima de una neumonia que lo tenia hospitalizado desde hacia unos dias.Poco mas puedo añadir a esta noticia simplemente que James Brown nos dejo alguna de las mejores canciones de la musica negra como Sex Machine (I feel Good),living in America,I'm black and I 'm proud.
Supongo que para que existiera un tal PRINCE ,primero existio un JAMES BROWN.



http://www.informativos.telecinco.es/james_brown/soul_musica/muerte/dn_38449.htm

[capitanaHook]

Larga vida al Soul, se nos va uno de los grandes 

[hundalasiliah]

Mierda, mierda y mierda, joder 

James Brown ha sido uno de los artistas que más horas de buena música me ha dado, y bajo cuya sombra se han cobijado varias generaciones de artistas. Me alegro de haber podido verle en directo en el Galapajazz el año pasado, fue uno de mis grandes sueños cumplidos, y jamás olvidaré la experiencia.

Long live James Brown!

[NoFace319]

Descansa en paz James y... ¡Espero que hagas a Dios un poco más Funky!

[Ernesto]

eso es verdad NOFACE

[Babyknows]

me acaba de entrat un mal rollo qué penita, y en navidad.. en fin, rest in peace 

[Madriles]

Me da que el entierro va a ser de aúpa, a no ser que la familia lo haga en plan íntimo.... Una pena.

[Madriles]

ATLANTA, Georgia (AP) -- James Brown, the dynamic, pompadoured "Godfather of Soul," whose rasping vocals and revolutionary rhythms made him a founder of rap, funk and disco as well, died early Monday, his agent said. He was 73.

Brown was hospitalized with pneumonia at Emory Crawford Long Hospital on Sunday and died around 1:45 a.m. Monday, said his agent, Frank Copsidas of Intrigue Music. Longtime friend Charles Bobbit was by his side, he said.

Copsidas said Brown's family was being notified of his death and that the cause was still uncertain. "We really don't know at this point what he died of," he said.

Along with Elvis Presley, Bob Dylan and a handful of others, Brown was one of the major musical influences of the past 50 years. At least one generation idolized him, and sometimes openly copied him. His rapid-footed dancing inspired Mick Jagger and Michael Jackson among others. Songs such as David Bowie's "Fame," Prince's "Kiss," George Clinton's "Atomic Dog" and Sly and the Family Stone's "Sing a Simple Song" were clearly based on Brown's rhythms and vocal style.

If Brown's claim to the invention of soul can be challenged by fans of Ray Charles and Sam Cooke, then his rights to the genres of rap, disco and funk are beyond question. He was to rhythm and dance music what Dylan was to lyrics: the unchallenged popular innovator. (Watch the "hardest working man in showbusiness.")

"James presented obviously the best grooves," rapper Chuck D of Public Enemy once told The Associated Press. "To this day, there has been no one near as funky. No one's coming even close."

His hit singles include such classics as "Out of Sight," "(Get Up I Feel Like Being a) Sex Machine," "I Got You (I Feel Good)" and "Say It Out Loud -- I'm Black and I'm Proud," a landmark 1968 statement of racial pride.

"I clearly remember we were calling ourselves colored, and after the song, we were calling ourselves black," Brown said in a 2003 Associated Press interview. "The song showed even people to that day that lyrics and music and a song can change society."

He won a Grammy award for lifetime achievement in 1992, as well as Grammys in 1965 for "Papa's Got a Brand New Bag" (best R&B recording) and for "Living In America" in 1987 (best R&B vocal performance, male.) He was one of the initial artists inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1986, along with Presley, Chuck Berry and other founding fathers.

He triumphed despite an often unhappy personal life. Brown, who lived in Beech Island near the Georgia line, spent more than two years in a South Carolina prison for aggravated assault and failing to stop for a police officer. After his release on in 1991, Brown said he wanted to "try to straighten out" rock music.

From the 1950s, when Brown had his first R&B hit, "Please, Please, Please" in 1956, through the mid-1970s, Brown went on a frenzy of cross-country tours, concerts and new songs. He earned the nickname "The Hardest Working Man in Show Business."

With his tight pants, shimmering feet, eye makeup and outrageous hair, Brown set the stage for younger stars such as Michael Jackson and Prince.

In 1986, he was inducted in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. And rap stars of recent years overwhelmingly have borrowed his lyrics with a digital technique called sampling.

Brown's work has been replayed by the Fat Boys, Ice-T, Public Enemy and a host of other rappers. "The music out there is only as good as my last record," Brown joked in a 1989 interview with Rolling Stone magazine.

"Disco is James Brown, hip-hop is James Brown, rap is James Brown; you know what I'm saying? You hear all the rappers, 90 percent of their music is me," he told the AP in 2003.

Born in poverty in Barnwell, South Carolina, in 1933, he was abandoned as a 4-year-old to the care of relatives and friends and grew up on the streets of Augusta, Georgia, in an "ill-repute area," as he once called it. There he learned to wheel and deal.

"I wanted to be somebody," Brown said.

By the eighth grade in 1949, Brown had served 31/2 years in Alto Reform School near Toccoa, Ga., for breaking into cars.

While there, he met Bobby Byrd, whose family took Brown into their home. Byrd also took Brown into his group, the Gospel Starlighters. Soon they changed their name to the Famous Flames and their style to hard R&B.

In January 1956, King Records of Cincinnati signed the group, and four months later "Please, Please, Please" was in the R&B Top Ten.

While most of Brown's life was glitz and glitter, he was plagued with charges of abusing drugs and alcohol and of hitting his third wife, Adrienne.

In September 1988, Brown, high on PCP and carrying a shotgun, entered an insurance seminar next to his Augusta office. Police said he asked seminar participants if they were using his private restroom.

Police chased Brown for a half-hour from Augusta into South Carolina and back to Georgia. The chase ended when police shot out the tires of his truck.

Brown received a six-year prison sentence. He spent 15 months in a South Carolina prison and 10 months in a work release program before being paroled in February 1991. In 2003, the South Carolina parole board granted him a pardon for his crimes in that state.

Soon after his release, Brown was on stage again with an audience that included millions of cable television viewers nationwide who watched the three-hour, pay-per-view concert at Wiltern Theatre in Los Angeles.

Adrienne Brown died in 1996 in Los Angeles at age 47. She took PCP and several prescription drugs while she had a bad heart and was weak from cosmetic surgery two days earlier, the coroner said.

More recently, he married his fourth wife, Tomi Raye Hynie, one of his backup singers. The couple had a son, James Jr.

Two years later, Brown spent a week in a private Columbia hospital, recovering from what his agent said was dependency on painkillers. Brown's attorney, Albert "Buddy" Dallas, said singer was exhausted from six years of road shows.


http://www.cnn.com/2006/SHOWBIZ/Music/12/25/james.brown.obit.ap/index.html

[Blackbean]

Toda una pena, se nos acaba de ir uno de los grandes, grandes, grandes. Siempre quedará en las retinas y corazones de los que le vimos y amamos su música. Deja un legado imposible de superar y súper vigente, listo para que lo sigan disfrutando millones de personas.

Ayer mismo, hablando con mi primo, me comentaba que era uno de los artistas en los que se pensaba para las próximas fiestas de Granada. Ya no podrá ser.

Descanse en paz.

[maxwell91]

Y yo que puedo decir de uno de mis artistas favoritos?. Qué puedo decir de un hombre que fue la principal influencia de dos de mis grandes ídolos, Prince y Michael Jackson? Qué puedo decir del hombre que es el embrión del funk, mi música favorita?

Probablemente nada...las palabras no me salen...llevo toda la mañana viendo sus cds, sus fotos sus videos...este hombre es DIOS, y ha dado tanto que sólo espero que se le agradezca lo que ha dado en la misma medida que él dió. Un genio, un innovador, un animal escénico, un currante...

Gracias James...seguro que los ángeles están bailando al ritmo de Cold Sweat, a pesar de que tu música es caliente como el infierno...

[ibiza]

He tenido la gran suerte de verlo dos veces en directo, realmente es uno de los grandes, a nadie le dejaba indiferente.
Como bien dice Ernesto, sin el, Prince y otros muchos, tal vez no serian lo que ahora son.

Un ultimo abrazo al rey del soul 

[goldie]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YYRSTGDqIw4&mode=related&search= 

[housequake]

Hoy formara parte de la historia de la musica por la perdida de un genio, alguien que se adelanto a su epoca y abrio nuevas puertas a los que venian detras, larga vida al padrino del soul... el gran JAMES BROWN

[Al Jerome]

Espero que todo aquello que nos dió aquí lo siga dando allá donde esté. Descanse en paz.

[JavierArcanda]

A veces nos parece que nuestros ídolos son inmortales, y bueno, son personas como todos nosotros. Es una pena que haya fallecido relativamente joven y sólo espero que ahora no nos bombardeen con grandes éxitos y cosas así para aprovecharse de esa circunstancia.
Descanse en paz.

[cat]

Descanse en paz. 

[Jose]

D.E.P Siempre nos quedará su música, su baile, su soul.............

[Chuck Romerales]

     Supongo que algún bacalaero descerebrado, al oir la noticia, habrá pensado en 'anda, el tio este era el de 'James Brown Is Dead', resulta que se ha muerto de verdad'  Pero, lamentablemente para estos cenutrios, James Brown no está muerto. Mientras nos queden sus discos y sus conciertos, seguirá vivo para siempre. Ignoro la reacción de uno de sus alumnos aventajados (el mismo), pero a ver si esta noticia le hace recapacitar y deja de comportarse como un gilip... 

[DMSR]

Mierda.

[Chuck Romerales]

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