This article was originally on a blog post platform and may be missing photos, graphics or links. See About archive blog posts. The song “Cry to Me” begins with the sweet soul singer Solomon Burke, ...

At age 69, Solomon Burke may be more popular today than he was in the mid-1960s, when his string of impassioned singles for Atlantic Records — highlighted by "Cry to Me," "Goodbye Baby (Baby Goodbye), ...

Solomon Burke, a pioneering singer-songwriter of so-called sweet soul music whose powerful ballads in the 1960s were a major influence on a generation of rock, R&B; and pop vocalists, has died. He was ...