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4/13/2009
New York City's history is tightly interwoven with the growth of Latino culture. The artists who have risen out of this melting pot drew from uptown, downtown, black, white, from borough to borough, an …
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4/13/2009
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4/10/2009
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4/9/2009
When it comes to choosing a song to make their own, your favorite artists choose the sounds of Philadelphia. In the most bizarre of musical ironies, even Motown turned eastward for musical inspi …
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4/9/2009
As they say, success has many parents, but Philadelphia International Records founders Kenny Gamble and Leon Huff are undeniably the soul of Philly Soul . . . and these are their children. In fa …
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4/9/2009
From alt rock to classic rock, neo-soul to disco, hardly a style of music hasn't been touched - no, make that swept away - by the sounds of Philadelphia. Lots of folks think Philly International …
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4/9/2009
They call it Philly Soul, but the name's deceptive, 'cause there are so many pieces, so many different kinds of music, that built its sound: R&B, jazz, doo-wop, pop, even classical; in fact, if …
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4/9/2009
The sound of Philly Soul spread far beyond the city and, in some cases, far beyond the city's artists. In Chicago, the Dells' second version of their pillow-talk ballad "Stay in My Corner" featu …
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4/9/2009
Get used to hearing the word genius when you hear the name Thom Bell. If Gamble & Huff were Philly Soul's grit, the classically trained songwriter/producer/arranger was its polish, lushing up th …
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