How to Use soul music in a Sentence

soul music

noun
  • The queen of soul music stopped by the Queen City on Thursday.
    Grace Tucker, The Enquirer, 28 June 2024
  • Or, head to Stay Gold in East Austin for live soul music.
    Meredith Carey, Condé Nast Traveler, 5 Mar. 2018
  • There has to be a reason it’s called soul music, right?
    Brontez Purnell, New York Times, 1 Aug. 2023
  • Old-school soul music plays from speakers across the street.
    Dwight Weingarten, The Christian Science Monitor, 21 Apr. 2021
  • Motown held a stranglehold on the soul music of the 1960s.
    Troy L. Smith, cleveland, 30 Oct. 2021
  • Some of the sweetest soul music is born from childhoods scarred with pain.
    Thor Christensen, Dallas News, 14 Apr. 2023
  • My goal is to sort of reenter mainstream R&B and soul music by next year.
    Chris Malone, Billboard, 14 June 2019
  • To fault Bruce Springsteen for loving soul music would be a slight to the music.
    David Hajdu, The Atlantic, 19 Nov. 2022
  • One of the great things about Chicago soul music and R&B is that there is no singular sound.
    Donald Liebenson, chicagotribune.com, 2 Oct. 2019
  • Dinner and weekend brunch are served along with blues, rock n’ roll, and soul music.
    Patricia Doherty, Travel + Leisure, 26 Feb. 2021
  • Hayes was a key figure in Southern soul music through Stax Records.
    Troy L. Smith, cleveland, 30 Oct. 2021
  • The Wonderful Wizard of Oz with a dazzling mix of rock, gospel and soul music.
    Luann Gibbs, The Enquirer, 27 Mar. 2022
  • In 1956, Franklin released her first album, Songs of Faith, kicking off a six-decade reign of soul music.
    Christopher Rosa, Glamour, 16 Aug. 2018
  • The only sound in the car was her mother’s soul music radio station, 106.5.
    Samantha Schmidt, Washington Post, 10 June 2020
  • Deeper and deeper into soul music in its modern form, from out of the barrel of a House.
    Lawrence Jackson, Harper's Magazine, 10 July 2023
  • The soul of those musicians generated the soul music that raced across the airwaves from coast to coast.
    Marco Della Cava, USA TODAY, 19 May 2024
  • Mom would put on her soul music first thing Sunday morning.
    Tiphanie Yanique, The New Yorker, 28 Oct. 2019
  • Stax Records was revolutionary in the rise of Southern soul music in the '60s.
    Ryan Bergeron, CNN, 3 Feb. 2022
  • Two restaurants attract foodies as house and soul music fill the air: Meet Dalia and Alma Cubana.
    Essence, 4 Dec. 2023
  • Funk, rap, jazz, and soul music melt into dancehall, reggae, and dub.
    Vulture, 9 June 2023
  • Growing up in the segregated South, Martell had sung R&B and soul music.
    Lisa Respers France, CNN, 28 Mar. 2024
  • Stone will receive the soul music icon award; Ginuwine, the urban music icon award; Sapp, the gospel music icon award; and Lewis, the legends award.
    Paul Grein, Billboard, 30 Apr. 2021
  • But there’s also so many other influences within the piece, like the Clark Sisters and gospel and R&B and 70s soul music.
    Sam Hurwitt, The Mercury News, 23 Apr. 2024
  • Still, from to bottom, the entire soundtrack features amazing funk and soul music that doesn’t just score the sound of a movie, but an entire era.
    Troy L. Smith, cleveland, 22 Jan. 2021
  • Bradley, like his Daptone label mate, the late Sharon Jones, was a later-in-life soul music success story.
    August Brown, latimes.com, 23 Sep. 2017
  • Sixties soul music provided the soundtrack for much of Meghan and Harry’s big day.
    Erin Hill, PEOPLE.com, 11 Aug. 2020
  • In 1968, a group of people protested a Tuskegee, Ala., radio station for not playing soul music.
    Gail Mitchell, Billboard, 19 Dec. 2019
  • In a time where much of the Billboard charts lean more towards pop and R&B, the trio finds its niche in the classic sounds of soul music that they were immersed in as children, but with a modern twist.
    Ineye Komonibo, refinery29.com, 23 June 2022
  • The iconic stop along the chitlin circuit—venues that welcomed Black performers during the Jim Crow era—served as a hub for early blues and soul music.
    Christopher Parker, Smithsonian Magazine, 1 June 2023
  • It’s paint-by-numbers soul music, just without the actual soul.
    Maeve McDermott, USA TODAY, 2 Nov. 2017

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