Solomon Burke
Solomon Burke
Solomon Burkewas an American preacher and singer, who shaped the sound of rhythm and blues as one of the founding fathers of soul music in the 1960s and a "key transitional figure in the development of soul music from rhythm and blues. He had a string of hits including "Cry to Me", "If You Need Me", "Got to Get You Off My Mind", "Down in the Valley" and "Everybody Needs Somebody to Love". Burke was referred to as "King Solomon",...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionR&B Singer
Date of Birth21 March 1940
CityPhiladelphia, PA
CountryUnited States of America
Don't you see the resentment that he's carrying, the pain that he's carrying? He gets into these problems and situations. It hurts me so bad when he has these problems, because I know there's an inner hurt there.
We've lost a giant, we've lost a legend, we've lost a man who created his own charisma and made it work around the world. It's just hard for me to really grasp that Wilson is already travelling towards the greater place.
We started the publicity, we started moving in the same direction with them, and then the devil came in and just turned that right around.
He knows what He's doing, and sometimes we project what we can't see, but only God knows what's going to happen, and He knows the best. For all of us.
We were grooving, at that point, in the same direction, but remember, Roy Hamilton and myself were going into a path and a direction that had no programming.
If we could buy these properties and then invest in the Black community, with our own McDonald's, with our own Kentucky Fried Chickens, it was gonna be a great move.
But we didn't have the financial structure, like the right attorneys, the right managers, the right accountants, and we were going against the grain of what black entertainers is supposed to do.
The deals that were made for Black artists at that time were not the deals that were made for white artists.
I didn't need to depend on the record company to publish my records.
That was my choice at that time, and I still say Nixon was a great president. A very beautiful and wise man.
I walked out of the Chinese restaurant with a fat check, a record deal, and a box of shrimp egg foo yung!
We were using the record as a tool to invest money into real estate all through the South, because we were living in an era where the South was changing.
We had some problems - my children were kidnapped during that time, and it just changed my whole way of thinking, from being in show business and everything else.
You gotta do it with class and integrity. If not, you're gonna drag yourself through the mud.