Brown met singer Bobby Byrd when the two played against each other in a baseball game outside the detention center. There, he formed a gospel quartet with four fellow cellmates, including Johnny Terry. Īt the age of 16, he was convicted of robbery and sent to a juvenile detention center in Toccoa. In his teen years, Brown briefly had a career as a boxer. He became inspired to become an entertainer after hearing " Caldonia" by Louis Jordan and his Tympany Five. He learned to play the piano, guitar, and harmonica during this period. While in Augusta, Brown performed buck dances for change to entertain troops from Camp Gordon at the start of World War II as their convoys traveled over a canal bridge near his aunt's home. He began singing in talent shows as a young child, first appearing at Augusta's Lenox Theater in 1944, winning the show after singing the ballad "So Long". Brown's mother eventually left the family after a contentious and abusive marriage and moved to New York. They later moved into a house shared with another aunt. His family first settled at one of his aunts' brothels. They later moved to Augusta, Georgia, when James was four or five. The Brown family lived in extreme poverty in Elko, South Carolina, which was an impoverished town at the time. In his autobiography, Brown stated that he had Chinese and Native American ancestry and that his father was of mixed African-American and Native American descent, while his mother was of mixed African-American and Asian descent. Brown's name was supposed to have been Joseph James Brown, but his first and middle names were mistakenly reversed on his birth certificate. 4.1 Education advocacy and humanitarianismīrown was born on May 3, 1933, in Barnwell, South Carolina, to 16-year-old Susie (née Behling 1916–2004) and 21-year-old Joseph Gardner Brown (1912–1993) in a small wooden shack.He is ranked seventh on Rolling Stone 's list of the 100 Greatest Artists of All Time. In Joel Whitburn's analysis of the Billboard R&B charts from 1942 to 2010, Brown is ranked No. He also received honors from several other institutions, including inductions into the Black Music & Entertainment Walk of Fame, and the Songwriters Hall of Fame. Brown was inducted into the first class of the Rhythm & Blues Music Hall of Fame in 2013 as an artist and then in 2017 as a songwriter. He also holds the record for the most singles listed on the Billboard Hot 100 chart that did not reach No. Brown continued to perform and record until his death from pneumonia in 2006.īrown recorded 17 singles that reached No. He also became noted for songs of social commentary, including the 1968 hit " Say It Loud – I'm Black and I'm Proud". By the early 1970s, Brown had fully established the funk sound after the formation of the J.B.s with records such as " Get Up (I Feel Like Being a) Sex Machine" and " The Payback". His success peaked in the 1960s with the live album Live at the Apollo and hit singles such as " Papa's Got a Brand New Bag", " I Got You (I Feel Good)" and " It's a Man's Man's Man's World".ĭuring the late 1960s, Brown moved from a continuum of blues and gospel-based forms and styles to a profoundly " Africanized" approach to music-making, emphasizing stripped-down interlocking rhythms that influenced the development of funk music. With the hit ballads " Please, Please, Please" and " Try Me", Brown built a reputation as a dynamic live performer with the Famous Flames and his backing band, sometimes known as the James Brown Band or the James Brown Orchestra. He first came to national public attention in the mid-1950s as the lead singer of the Famous Flames, a rhythm and blues vocal group founded by Bobby Byrd.
Brown was one of the first 10 inductees into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame at its inaugural induction in New York on January 23, 1986.īrown began his career as a gospel singer in Toccoa, Georgia. In a career that lasted more than 50 years, he influenced the development of several music genres. 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.
James Joseph Brown (– December 25, 2006) was an American singer, dancer, musician, record producer, and bandleader.
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