Aretha Franklin did in the 1960s and 1970s presenting a rock and roll feel in her music which derived from the discombobulated (confused) writings of Maya Angelou with soul in her writings. Gospel Music was started by slaves in the 1800s called Negro spirituals. they sung them while picking cotton. It was then Thomas Dorsey that started the gospel century. He influenced Mahalia Jackson who sung God Gonna Separate the Wheat from the Tares.
Sam Cooke is generall credited as "the man who invented Soul", so that would be my safest guess.
The late James Brown, and Aretha Franklin.
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No. There were black jazz singers before she was even born.
Ella Fitzgerald
There is a female jazz singer named Cindy Blackman but I did not fine someone named Black.
The Jazz Singer starred Al Jolson and Mary McAvoy.
The words The Jazz Singer should be in italics.
The first feature film with speaking was called "The Jazz Singer." Films that had talking in them were first known as "Talkies" or "Talking pictures." Now, we obviously know them as motion pictures or simply movies.
If you mean the movie, "The Jazz Singer", it was the first "talkie".
The Jazz Singer is the first talkie film in the world
"The Jazz Singer" (1927). Stars Al Jolson.
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Although The Jazz Singer with Al Jolson is usually credited actually the honor belongs to the 1926 movie Don Juan
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