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Wednesday, January 22nd, 2025
Sam Cooke
Samuel Cook (January 22, 1931 – December 11, 1964), known professionally as Sam Cooke was born in Clarksdale, Mississippi. He later added an "e" onto the end of his name, though the reason for this is disputed.
He was one of eight children of Annie Mae and the Reverend Charles Cook, a Baptist minister.
Cook was an African-American gospel, R&B, soul, and pop singer, songwriter, and entrepreneur. He is considered to be one of the pioneers and founders of soul music. He is commonly known as the King of Soul for his unmatched vocal abilities and influence on the modern world of music.
Cooke had 29 top-40 hits in the U.S. between 1957 and 1964.
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Wednesday, January 22nd, 2025
Raymell Rice
Raymell Maurice Rice (born January 22, 1987 in New Rochelle, New York) is an American football running back for the Baltimore Ravens of the National Football League. He was drafted by the Ravens in the second round of the 2008 NFL Draft. He played college football at Rutgers.
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Wednesday, January 22nd, 2025
Bishop C. L. Franklin
Clarence LaVaughn Franklin (born January 22, 1915 – July 27, 1984 in Sunflower County, Mississippi), was an American Baptist minister, a civil rights activist, and father of the legendary soul and gospel singer Aretha Franklin.
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Saturday, January 25th, 2025
Donnie McClurkin
Donnie McClurkin (born January 25, 1959, Louisville, Ms) is an American gospel music singer and minister. He has won three Grammy awards, ten Stellar awards, two BET awards, two Soul Train awards, one Dove award and one NAACP Image award for his work.
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Saturday, January 25th, 2025
Etta James
Etta James (born Jamesetta Hawkins, January 25, 1938) is an American blues, soul, rhythm and blues (R&B), rock and roll, gospel and jazz singer. In the 1950s and 1960s, she had her biggest success as a blues and R&B singer.
Sometimes called Miss Peaches, she is best known for her version of the Mack Gordon and Harry Warren song "At Last", and for "I'd Rather Go Blind".
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Saturday, January 25th, 2025
Alicia Keys
Alicia Augello Cook (born January 25, 1981), better known by her stage name Alicia Keys, is an American R&B singer-songwriter, record producer, and actress. Keys was raised by a single mother in the Hell's Kitchen area of Manhattan in New York City. At age seven, Keys began playing the piano. She attended Professional Performing Arts School and graduated at 16 as valedictorian.
Keys has won numerous awards and has sold over 30 million albums worldwide and 25 million singles, which makes her one of the best selling artists of all time.
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Sunday, January 26th, 2025
Anita Baker
Anita Baker (born January 26, 1958 in Toledo, Ohio and raised in Detroit, Michigan) is an American R&B and soul jazz singer-songwriter. To date, Baker has won eight Grammy Awards, and has four platinum albums and two gold albums to her credit.
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Sunday, January 26th, 2025
Kirk Franklin
Kirk Dwayne Franklin (born January 26, 1970(1970-01-26)) is an American Gospel music singer and author, and is most notably known as the leader of urban contemporary gospel choirs such as The Family, God's Property and One Nation Crew (1NC).
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Sunday, January 26th, 2025
Thom Bell
Thomas Randolph "Thom" Bell was born January 26, 1943 in Kingston, Jamaica.
He was the producer of the production team of Kenny Gamble and Leon Huff, the group was the principal architects of the seductive Philly soul sound of the 1970s.
He wrote original material for Checker and his production talents yielded several big hits like La-La (Means I Love You) and Didn't I (Blow Your Mind This Time).
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Wednesday, January 29th, 2025
Oprah Winfrey
Orpah Gail Winfrey (born on January 29, 1954, Kosciusko, Mississippi) is a talk-show host, actress.
Emmy Award-winning television talk-show host, actress and producer. Her Oprah Winfrey Show (debut 1986) is the highest-rated talk show in syndication history.
Credited with creating a more intimate confessional form of media communication, she revolutionized the tabloid talk show genre pioneered by Phil Donahue.
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