Biografía de James Brown
James Joseph Brown Jr. nació en Carolina del Sur en 1933, en el seno de una familia de escasos recursos. Su infancia transcurrió en circunstancias difíciles, marcada por la pobreza y la inestabilidad familiar. Desde muy joven mostró interés por la música, comenzando a cantar en el coro de la iglesia local y aprendiendo a tocar diversos instrumentos de manera autodidacta. Sus primeros pasos profesionales los dio en grupos locales de rhythm and blues, donde desarrolló las bases de lo que sería su distintivo estilo escénico. La formación de The Famous Flames a mediados de los años cincuenta marcó el inicio de su carrera discográfica, cuando empezó a destacar por su energética presencia en el escenario y su particular forma de interpretar.
Conocido mundialmente como "El Padrino del Soul", Brown revolucionó la música popular con su innovador estilo que fusionaba rhythm and blues, gospel y elementos que posteriormente darían origen al funk. Su propuesta musical se caracterizaba por ritmos sincopados, una sección rítmica prominente y su inconfundible voz áspera y emotiva. A lo largo de su carrera grabó numerosos álbumes que se convirtieron en clásicos del género, estableciendo nuevos estándares en la música soul y funk. Su evolución artística lo llevó desde las baladas soul más tradicionales hacia sonidos más experimentales y rítmicamente complejos, influenciando profundamente el desarrollo del hip-hop y otros géneros urbanos posteriores. Sus presentaciones en vivo se convirtieron en espectáculos legendarios, caracterizados por su teatralidad y energía desbordante.
Brown recibió múltiples reconocimientos a lo largo de su carrera, siendo incluido en diversos salones de la fama de la música estadounidense. Su impacto cultural trasciende lo musical, habiendo sido una figura importante en la lucha por los derechos civiles y la comunidad afroamericana. Sus composiciones han sido sampleadas innumerables veces en el hip-hop, convirtiéndolo en uno de los artistas más influyentes de la historia de la música popular. Falleció en 2006, dejando un legado artístico que continúa inspirando a nuevas generaciones de músicos y consolidando su posición como una de las figuras más importantes de la música del siglo XX.
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B
- Baby Cries Over The Ocean
- Baby You're Right
- Baby You're Right (Single Version)
- Begging Begging
- Believers Shall Enjoy (Non Believers Shall Suffer)
- Bewildered
- Bewildered (1960 Album Version)
- Bewildered (Demo Version)
- Black And Loud
- Blind Man Can See It
- Blues & Pants
- Bodyheat (Pt. 1)
- Bodyheat (Pt. 2)
- Bring It Up
- Bringing Up The Guitar
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- Caldonia (Single Version)
- Can't Be the Same
- Chonnie-On-Chon
- Choonie-On-Chon
- Christmas Is Coming
- Coal Sweat
- Cold Sweat (Live At The Apollo Theater/1967)
- Cold Sweat (Pt. 1)
- Come Over Here
- Control (People Go Where We Send You) (Part I)
- Control (People Go Where We Send You) (Part II)
- Cross Firing (Instrumental)
D
- Damn Right, I Am Somebody (Last Part That Went Over The Fence)
- Damn Right, I Am Somebody (Pt. 1)
- Dancin Little Thing
- Devil's Hideaway
- Do Your Thing (Live At The Apollo Theater/1972)
- Doing It To Death (Single Edit)
- Don't Be A Dropout
- Dooley's Junkyard Dogs
- Dooley's Junkyard Dogs (Short Version)
- Down And Out In New York City (Frankie Crocker Introduction)
- Dragon Pants
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F
G
- Get It Together, Pt. 1 (Single Version)
- Get On The Good Foot (Pt. 1 & 2)
- Get On The Good Foot, Pt. 1 (Single Version)
- Get On The Good Foot, Pt. 2 (Single Version)
- Get Up (I Feel Like Being A) Sex Machine (Live At The Olympia Theatre, Paris/1971)
- Get Up I Feel Like Being A Sex Machine (Pt. 1 / Single Version)
- Get Up I Feel Like Being A Sex Machine (Pt. 2 / Single Version)
- Get Up I Feel Like Being Like A Sex Machine, Pts. 1 & 2
- Get Up Off
- Get Up Offa That Thing
- Get Up Offa That Thing (Release The Pressure)
- Get Up, Get Into It, Get Involved
- Get Up, Get Into It, Get Involved (Live At The Apollo Theater/1971)
- Get Up, Get Into It, Get Involved (Pt .1 Reverb Version)
- Get Up, Get Into It, Get Involved (Pt .2 Reverb Version)
- Get Up, Get Into It, Get Involved (Pt. 1 & 2 / Mono)
- Get Up, Get Into It, Get Involved (Pt. 2)
- Get Up, Get Into It, Get Involved (Pt.1)
- Gimme Some More (Live At The Apollo Theater/1972)
- Gittin' A Little Hipper (Instrumental)
- Give It Up Or Turnit A Loose
- Give It Up Or Turnit A Loose (Extended Version)
- Give It Up Or Turnit A Loose (Live From Augusta, GA., 1969 / 2019 Mix)
- Give Me Some Skin
- Givin' Up Food For Funk (Pt. 1 / Single Version)
- Givin' Up Food For Funk (Pt. 2 / Single Version)
- Go Power At Christmas Time
- Gonna Try
- Good Good Lovin'
- Good Good Lovin' (Single Version)
- Goodnight My Love
- Got to Cry
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- Have A Happy Day
- Have Mercy Baby
- Here I Go (Instrumental)
- Hey America
- Hey America (Sing Along)
- Hold It (Instrumental)
- Hold My Baby's Hand
- Honky Tonk (Live At The Apollo Theater/1972)
- Honky Tonk (Pt. 1)
- Honky Tonk (Pt. 2)
- Hot (I Need To Be Loved, Loved, Loved, Loved)
- Hot Pants (She Got To Use What She Got To Get What She Wants)
- Hot Pants Road
- Hot Pants Road (Live At The Apollo Theater/1972)
- How Long Darling
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- I Can't Stand Myself (When You Touch Me) (Live At Dallas Memorial Auditorium / 1968)
- I Can't Stand Myself (When You Touch Me) (Live From Augusta, GA., 1969 / 2019 Mix)
- I Can't Stand Myself (When You Touch Me) (Pt. 1 / Single Version)
- I Cried (Single Version)
- I Don't Mind (Single Version)
- I Don't Want Nobody To Give Me Nothing (Open Up The Door I'll Get It Myself) (Live From Augusta, GA., 1969 / 2019 Mix)
- I Don't Want Nobody To Give Me Nothing (Open Up The Door I'll Get It Myself) (Pt. 2)
- I Don't Want Nobody To Give Me Nothing (Open Up The Door I'll Get It Myself) (Pt.1 / Single Version)
- I Feel Good (I Got You)
- I Feel That Old Feeling Coming On
- I Got A Bag Of My Own (Single Version)
- I Got A Good Thing (And I Ain't Gonna Let It Go) (Part 1)
- I Got A Good Thing (And I Ain't Gonna Let It Go) (Part 2)
- I Got Ants In My Pants (Pt.1)
- I Got Ants In My Pants, Pt. 1 (Mono Version)
- I Got Ants In My Pants, Pt. 1 (Reverb Version)
- I Got Ants In My Pants, Pts. 15 & 16 (Mono Version)
- I Got Ants In My Pants, Pts. 15 & 16 (Reverb Version)
- I Got The Feelin' (Live At Dallas Memorial Auditorium / 1968)
- I Got The Feelin' (Single Version)
- I Got The Feelin' / Licking Stick-Licking Stick (Live From Augusta, GA., 1969 / 2019 Mix)
- I Got You (1964 Smash Version)
- I Guess I'll Have To Cry, Cry, Cry (Alternate Version)
- I Guess I'll Have To Cry, Cry, Cry (Single Version)
- I Know It's True
- I Know You Got Soul (Extended Version)
- I Know You Got Soul (Live At The Apollo Theater/1972)
- I Love You Yes I Do
- I Refuse To Lose
- I Walked Alone
- I Won't Plead No More
- I'll Go Crazy (Live At The Apollo Theater/1962)
- I'll Go Crazy (Single Version)
- I'll Never Never Let You Go (Single Version)
- I'll Take You There (Live At The Apollo Theater/1972)
- I'm Not Demanding (Pt. 1)
- I'm Shook
- If I Ruled The World (Live From Augusta, GA., 1969 / 2019 Mix)
- If I Ruled The World (Single Version)
- If You Don't Give A Dogone About It
- In The Middle (Pt. 1)
- In The Wee Wee Hours (Of The Nite)
- Introduction By James Brown (Live At The Apollo Theater/1972)
- Introduction By Lucas "Fats" Gonder (Live At The Apollo Theater/1962)
- Introduction Of Bobby Byrd By Danny Ray (Live At The Apollo Theater/1972)
- Introduction Of James Brown By Fred Wesley (Live At The Apollo Theater/1972)
- Introduction Of Lyn Collins By Danny Ray (Live At The Apollo Theater/1972)
- Introduction Of The J.B.’s By Danny Ray (Live At The Apollo Theater/1972)
- Introduction To Startime (Live From Augusta, GA., 1969 / 2019 Mix)
- Is It Yes Or Is It No?
- It Was You (Single B-Side Version)
- It's A Man's Man's Man's World (Live From Augusta, GA., 1969 / 2019 Mix)
- It's A Man's Man's Man's World (Live In Tampa, FL/1966)
- It's A Man's, Man's, Man's World (Single Version / Mono)
- It's A New Day (Pts.1 & 2)
- It's Christmas Time (Pt.1)
- It's Christmas Time (Pt.2)
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- Let A Man Come In And Do The Popcorn (Pt. 1)
- Let Yourself Go (Single Version)
- Let's Make Christmas Mean Something This Year
- Let's Make Christmas Mean Something This Year (Pt. 1)
- Let's Make Christmas Mean Something This Year (Pt. 2)
- Let's Unite The Whole World At Christmas
- Licking Stick - Licking Stick (Pt. 1 / Mono)
- Licking Stick - Licking Stick (Pt. 1 / Stereo)
- Licking Stick - Licking Stick (Pt. 2 / Mono)
- Licking Stick - Licking Stick (Pt. 2 / Stereo)
- Lost In A Mood Of Changes
- Lost Someone (1961 Single Version)
- Love Or A Game
- Lowdown Popcorn
- Lowdown Popcorn (Live From Augusta, GA., 1969 / 2019 Mix)
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- Machine No Make Sex
- Make It Funky (Pt. 1)
- Mama's Dead (From "Black Caesar" Soundtrack)
- Mashed Potatoes
- Mashed Potatoes U.S.A.
- Maybe Good Maybe Bad (Pt. 1)
- Maybe I'll Understand (Pt. 1)
- Maybe The Last Time (Single Version)
- Medley: I Found Someone/Why Do You Do Me Like You Do/I Want You So Bad (Live At The Apollo Theater, 1962 / Single Mix)
- Merry Christmas, I Love You
- Messing with the Blues
- Mind Power
- Money Won't Change You (Single Version / Pt. 1)
- Money Won't Change You (Single Version / Pt. 2)
- Mother Popcorn (Live From Augusta, GA., 1969 / 2019 Mix)
- Mother Popcorn (Pt. 1)
- Mother Popcorn (Pt. 2)
- My Thang
- My Thang (Single Version)
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- Papa Don't Take No Mess (Part II)
- Papa Don't Take No Mess (Pt. 1)
- Papa's Got A Brand New Bag (Pt. 1)
- Pass The Peas (Live At The Apollo Theater/1972)
- Pass The Peas (Single Version)
- People Get Up And Drive Your Funky Soul
- People Wake Up And Live
- People Who Criticize
- Please Please Please (Live In Tampa, FL/1966)
- Please, Please, Please (Live At The Apollo Theater, 1967)
- Please, Please, Please (Live From Augusta, GA., 1969 / 2019 Mix)
- Please, Please, Please (Single Version)
- Popcorn With A Feeling (Instrumental)
- Public Enemy #1 (Pt. 1)
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- Same Beat (Pt. 1)
- Same Beat (Pt. 2 & 3)
- Santa Claus Gave Me A Brand New Start
- Santa Claus Go Straight To The Ghetto
- Santa Claus Is Definitely Here To Stay
- Santa Claus Is Definitely Here To Stay (Sing Along)
- Say It Loud - I'm Black And I'm Proud (Pt. 1)
- Say It Loud - I'm Black And I'm Proud (Pt. 2)
- Say It Loud - I'm Black And I'm Proud (Pts.1 & 2)
- Say It Loud I'm Black And I'm Proud (Live From Augusta, GA., 1969 / 2019 Mix)
- Sex Machine (Live At The Apollo Theater/1971)
- She Made Me Popcorn
- Shhhhhh (For A Little While)
- Signed, Sealed and Delievered
- Signs Of Christmas
- So Long (Single Version)
- Sometime (Single Version)
- SortaBad
- Soul Food Pt. 1
- Soul Food Pt. 2
- Soul Power (Live At The Apollo Theater/1971)
- Soul Power (Pt. 1 Promo Version)
- Soul Power (Pt. 1)
- Soul Power (Pt. 2 & 3 / Single Version)
- Soul Power (Pt. 2 & 3 Promo Version)
- Soul Power (Pt.1 / Single Version)
- Soulful Christmas
- Spinning Wheel (Live From Augusta, GA., 1969 / 2019 Mix)
- Spinning Wheel (Part 1)
- Spinning Wheel (Pt. 2)
- Stage Dialogue (Live From Augusta, GA., 1969 / 2019 Mix)
- Sticky (Instrumental)
- Stone Fox
- Stone To The Bone
- Stoned To The Bone (Single Edit)
- Stoned To The Bone (Some More)
- Suds (Single Version)
- Super Bad (Live At The Olympia, Paris / 1971)
- Super Bad (Pt. 1 & 2 Promo Version)
- Super Bad (Pt. 1 & 2)
- Super Bad (Pt. 3)
- Superbad Superslick (Pt. 1)
- Superbad Superslick (Pt. 2)
- Sweet Little Baby Boy (Pt. 1)
- Sweet Little Baby Boy (Pt. 2)
- Sweet Little Baby Boy (Pts. 1 & 2)
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- Take Me Higher And Groove Me
- Tell Me That You Love Me (Live In Tampa, Florida/1966)
- Tell Me What I Did Wrong (Single Version)
- Tell Me What You're Gonna Do
- Tennesse Waltz
- That Dood It
- That's When I Lost My Heart
- The Bells (Single Version)
- The Big Purple Donut
- The Chicken (Instrumental / Single Version)
- The Christmas Song (Version 2)
- The Goodest Foot
- The Little Groove Maker Me
- The Message From The Soul Sisters (Pt. 1 & 2)
- The Payback
- The Payback (Part 1)
- The Payback, Part I
- The Payback, Part II
- The Payback, Part II (DJ Promo Version)
- The Popcorn (Instrumental / Single Version)
- The Scratch (Instrumental)
- The Soul Of J.B.
- The Things That I Used To Do
- Theme From King Heroin (Single Version)
- There It Is (Live At The Apollo Theater/1972)
- There It Is (Pt. 1)
- There It Is (Pt. 2)
- There It Is (Pts.1 & 2 / Single Version)
- There Must Be a Reason
- There Was A Time (Live At The Apollo Theater/1967)
- There Was A Time (Live From Augusta, GA., 1969 / 2019 Mix)
- There Was A Time (Single Version)
- Think (About It) (Live At The Apollo Theater/1972)
- Think (About It) (Single Version)
- Think (Live At The Apollo Theater, 1962 / Single Mix)
- Think (Single Version)
- This Guy - This Girl's In Love
- This Is My Lonely Christmas (Pt. 1)
- This Is My Lonely Christmas (Pt. 2)
- This Old Heart
- Tit For Tat (Ain't No Taking Back)
- Top Of The Stack (Instrumental)
- Tour Date Promo (2019 Mix)
- Try Me (Demo Version)
- Try Me (Live At The Apollo Theater/1962)
- Try Me (Live At The Apollo Theater/1967)
- Try Me (Live From Augusta, GA., 1969 / 2019 Mix)
- Try Me (Single Version)
- Try Me (Strings Version)
- Turn It Up Give It Shrooms
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- What Do I Have To Do To Prove My Love To You (Single Version)
- What My Baby Needs Now Is A Little More Lovin' (Single Version)
- Why Do You Do Me (Single Version)
- Why Does Everything Happen To Me
- Wine Spot (Live At The Apollo Theater/1972)
- World (Live From Augusta, GA., 1969 / 2019 Mix)
- World (Pt. 1)
- World (Pt. 2)
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- You Can't Beat Two People In Love (Part 2)
- You Can't Beat Two People In Love (Pt. 1)
- You Can't Keep a Good Man Down
- You Don't Have To Go
- You Got To Have A Mother For Me (Long Version)
- You Got To Have A Mother For Me (Pt. 1)
- You Know It
- You're Mine, You're Mine
- You've Got The Power (Single Version)
- You've Got To Change Your Mind (Single Version)
