Soul and R&B music has it's roots in traditional African-American gospel music and began to mix and merge with different styles from its original religious background both lyrically and instrumentally in the early-1950s. The term "soul" in African-American heritage has suggestions of their pride and culture, Gospel groups of the 1940s/1950s taking the next step by adding it as part of their name. Jazz is one of the known genres to be a derived from soul and has come to be known simply as soul jazz.
Important pioneers whose 1950s tracks contributed to the rising popularity of soul music included Clyde McPhatter, Hank Ballard and Etta James. Ray Charles, however, is often citied as the inventor of the soul genre with his strong of hit songs starting with 1954's "I Got A Woman." Soul music grew popular within the African-American charts, US Pop Charts and even in the UK where many had toured in the late-1960s. By the time it reached 1968, however, traditional soul was wearing thin and different evolutions of the genre grew more popular as some went on to develop funk music whilst other went on to develop disco.
Whilst funk and disco dominated the mid-1970s to early-1980s, quiet storm took effect with influence from soft rock and funk bands would even have some quiet storm records. After the decline of funk and disco in the early 1980s, soul music became influenced by electro-music where its sound became less raw and more studio produced, which later became known as contemporary R&B, which saw soul and R&B merge together.
In the mid-1990s, the music industry saw the development of neo-soul but these simmered down by the 2000s as the music industry re-focused on hip hop due to its burst of popularity.
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