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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.

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Aretha Franklin, Sam Cooke , Arthur Alexander , Solomon Burke

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Sam Cooke is generall credited as "the man who invented Soul", so that would be my safest guess.

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aretha Franklin

James brown

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The late James Brown, and Aretha Franklin.

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Niel Breston James

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