James Brown, American singer-songwriter, producer, and actor (died 2006)

James Brown

American musician (1933–2006)

James Joseph Brown was an American singer, songwriter, dancer, musician, and record producer. The central progenitor of funk music and a major figure of 20th-century music, he is referred to by various nicknames, among them "Mr. Dynamite", "the Hardest-Working Man in Show…