Sam Cooke Lyrics


Songwriter and performer Sam Cooke was one of the most
popular and influential black singers to emerge in the late
'50s, successfully to synthesize a blend of gospel music
and secular themes and provided the early foundation of
soul music. Cooke's pure, clear vocals were widely
imitated, and his suave, sophisticated image set the style
of soul crooners for the next decade.

Sam Cooke was born in Clarksdale, Mississippi on January
22, 1931, but grew up in Chicago, where his father Charles
became a minister in the Church of Christ Holiness Church.
By age nine Sam, with his two More...






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