Soul

Soul music is a music genre that combines rhythm and blues and gospel music originating in the late 1950s in the

Soul music is a music genre that combines rhythm and blues and gospel music originating in the late 1950s in the United States.

Rhythm and blues (a combination of blues and jazz) arose in the 1940s as small groups of predominately African-American musicians built upon the blues tradition. Soul music is differentiated from rhythm and blues by its use of gospel-music devices, its greater emphasis on vocalists, and its merging of religious and secular themes.