Charismatic singer with an imposing elegant appearance on stage but overall gifted with a powerful beautiful voice, Solomon Burke can be now considered as the father of soul and rock & soul music Burke is that kind of musician coming from gospel music who gradually evolved to soul on those years where the flourishing birth of that style suggested it would become one of the most influent ones into the future popular music of the XXth Century Born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in 1936, on a religious family who ran The House of God for All People Church, since childhood Solomon excelled with an impressive oratory, theatre and improvisation skills which, together with his Bible knowledge, made him lead the weekly sermon In 1961 he signed for Atlantic label thanks to Jerry Wexler who shot him to fame with the gospel inspired song Just Out Of Reach where there appear some traces of his future southern soul musical style Since then on, Solomon Burke grew for good as one of the most intense best singers of the sixties, together with such great names as Don Covay, Joe Tex, Otis Redding, Arthur Conley, Ben E King or Wilson Pickett, making altogether a kind of soul music clan The dvd has been recently recorded live at the Swiss Lifestyle Music Festival and shows our man aged seventy but with an amazing voice and totally inspired You will enjoy eighteen songs with jewels like Down In The Valley, Georgia On My Mind, Cry To Me, Proud Mary or Everybody Needs Somebody To Love, together with rock&roll medleys like Lucille, Tutti Frutti or Long Tall Sally, without forgetting blues, The Greeting Song and naturally great soul classics like Dock Of The Bay or Fa, Fa, Fa among others An impressing dvd with one of the greatest names of black music scene Simply amazing and faultless