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Soul

60–100 BPM Low energy

Soul music is a music genre that combines rhythm and blues and gospel music, originating in the United States. According to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, soul is "music that arose out of the black experience in America through the transmutation of gospel and rhythm & blues into a form of funky, secular testifying." The genre occasionally uses improvisational additions, twirls and auxiliary sounds. Catchy rhythms, stressed by handclaps and plastic body moves, are an important feature. Other characteristics are a call and response between the soloist and the chorus, and an especially tense vocal sound. Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.

emerged ~1955 · derived from Blues ↗ see in graph

Sound of Soul

Kiss Of Life
Sade
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Love on the Brain
Rihanna
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Like a Tattoo
Sade
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Thinkin Bout You
Frank Ocean
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Back to Black
Amy Winehouse
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Sources & Attribution

Source Entry Name Confidence Link Notes
Last.fm Soul Derived from data —
Wikipedia Soul music Derived from data ↗

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