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Article: Black Music Month: BET Honors James Brown
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- The Sun Reporter
- Article date:
- June 5, 2003
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Sun Reporter, The
06-05-2003
Some call him "The Hardest Working Man In Show Business," others call him
"The Godfather Of Soul" but his mama called him James Brown. There probably
isn't another Soul music artist that has influenced popular music as much
as James Brown has. His dancing and vocal style, stage antics, beats and
even work ethic have all been incorporated in some way into the present day
world of music entertainment.
James Joe Brown was born in Barnwell, South Carolina -- the only child of a
poor couple -- on May 3rd, 1928 (although he apparently claims, like all
real superstars, that he was born later, in 1933). When Brown was four, his
parents separated and he moved into his aunt's ...