Before Sam Cooke became a household name with hits like You Send Me and A Change Is Gonna Come, he was simply a young man ...

Ahead of his death, Sam Cooke had quite the full life. He seemed to be an at least somewhat admirable person. He was married twice, and paid for his ex-wife’s funeral following a fatal traffic ...

While his contributions to gospel, soul, and R&B are widely celebrated ... and emotive vocal delivery. Here are five Sam Cooke love songs that one needs to listen to and why they remain essential ...

Originally, Cooke was a gospel singer, joining the Soul Stirrers ... both had Top 10 hits with Sam Cooke songs later in the sixties, but it is one of the great pop tragedies that we never got ...

How gospel went from the church to the charts through the music of Thomas Dorsey, Sister Rosetta Tharpe, Mahalia Jackson and Sam Cooke. Show more Gospel's uplifting and rejoicing sound is world ...