Charles Bradley live at La Cigale, 2012 (Paris, France)
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Called the Screaming Eagle of Soul, charismatic singer Charles Bradley became a remarkable late-in-life soul music star. At the age of 62, he recorded his first album, No Time for Dreaming, for the funk-and-soul revivalist label Daptone in Brooklyn. The year was 2011. Soon after, he was featured as the subject of the acclaimed 2012 documentary film, Charles Bradley: Soul of America, an autobiographical journey of how he had struggled through adversity and finally found fame. For years he had sung James Brown songs in clubs based on his teenage epiphany seeing him perform at the Apollo Theater in Harlem. He paid his bills as a James Brown impersonator under the name Black Velvet. That caught the attention of Daptone’s star Thomas “TNT” Brenneck who was seeking out a singer for his Menahan Street Band. The connection clicked with Brenneck teaching Bradley how to keep his act while finding his own voice.
A year after his debut, Bradley is on the road and captivating crowds. He headlines La Cigale in Paris where he performs his soul/funk/r&b music delivered by, in his words to the crowd, “the original victim of love.” With gripping and at times ecstatic vocals, he sings funk and soul steeped in the bluehs and dances into a frenzy-not quite doing the JB-famous splits but powerfully grooving and strutting just the same. His vocals are full of raw grunts, shrieks and yelps like his hero. After his energetic 40-minute show, he returns for his poignant charged encore, “Why Is It So Hard (Poverty in America).” Five years after this show, Bradley dies from stomach cancer in 2017. Daptone felt the pain of loss, writing his epitaph, which in part reads: “Charles was truly a transcendent singer who led a remarkable life, overcoming unimaginable adversity to achieve great success and international acclaim very late in his life. What was really special about him and made him different from everybody else in the world was how he understood his pain as a cry for universal love and humanity. He felt that if he loved enough--if we all loved each other enough-we could take away the world’s pain and sadness. That is why he jumped off the stage and literally tried to hug everybody he could. It's why he took such great care of a mother that had abandoned him. It's why he sang and danced like a lunatic.”
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