‘Godfather of Soul’…The hardest working man in show business’.

James Joseph Brown (May 3, 1933 – December 25, 2006) American singer, songwriter, dancer, musician, record producer, and bandleader. The central progenitor of funk music and a major figure of 20th-century music, he is often referred to by the honorific nicknames "Godfather of Soul", "Mr. Dynamite", and "Soul Brother No. 1”. In a career that lasted over 50 years, he influenced the development of several music genres. Brown was one of the first ten inductees into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame at its inaugural induction in New York on January 23, 1986. Shot in London’s Hyde Park in the summer of 2004.