Without the template he set in the late 1950s and early 1960s, it’s possible we would never have enjoyed those artists. New Jersey’s Bradd Marquis is another artist who Cooke influenced. On June 14, ...

Nicole Cooke-Johnson loaded her car full of children’s books and traveled to her grandfather’s hometown, Clarksdale, ...

A Birmingham artist whose musical career transcended styles and genres for seven decades has died. Roscoe Robinson as a solo artist, writer and group member was associated with numerous gospel and ...