Who is The King of Soul ???

kuskklassic

if James Brown is the Godfather of Soul and Aretha Franklin is the Queen of Soul, who owns the crown of King of Soul??

_Menace_

Marvin Gaye

Marvin Gaye with Al Green in 2nd

south4life

Stevie Wonder

Stevie is my favorite, I love Stevie's music

1CK1S

I'm not voting they all deserve to be apart of the Mount Rushmore of male soul artists!!!

unspoken_respect

Stevie Wonder

Stevie is the GOAT

Bodhi

Marvin Gaye

Marvin

waterproof

Sam Cooke

Sam Cooke, Marvin Gaye, Donny Hathway.....

BelovedAfeni

Teddy Pendergrass

Modern day Luther Vandross
RIP
but Teddy P is the ?

jono

Marvin Gaye

Marvin the GOAT, Cooke is that dude tho as is Al and Curtis Mayfield...and don't sleep on Stevie

Say What

Curtis Mayfield

Curtis

mrjun18

this is a very very VERY hard question. i will probably say sam cooke or marvin gaye. but again they are all definitely contenders.

Rahlow

Stevie Wonder

It's hard to get by Stevie
Curtis Mayfield would be my 2nd choice

Mister B.

Marvin Gaye

Marvin EPITOMIZED Soul Music. He put that ? on the map.

Don't get me wrong, I think Stevie is a better overall artist in the fact that he can make Soul, Funk, and R&B (even pop if he wanted to), but sticking to just Soul music, Marvin got ere'body. Stevie included.

KLICHE

Marvin Gaye

If this were "Neo-Soul".. then I'd have said Raphael Saddiq.

kacee139

Marvin Gaye

Marvin's catalog is why he beats out Sam Cooke....but Sam and Ray Charles put it on the map

vince_vince

What about the Godfather of Soul Mr James Brown?

What about Otis Redding?

earth two superman

Sam Cooke

cooke, marvin gaye is a close, close second. but he didnt write a change gonna come

real_hh_rep

Marvin Gaye

Curtis, Donny, Marvin, Sly Stone all have immeasurable contribution to genre. I voted for Marvin , because his albums of 70's era were the greatest and most influential works of black artist ever. What's Going On had impact on rock, hip-hop, soul music, I Want You spawned Quiet Storm, Hear,My Dear and Let's Get It On influented generations of new day neo-soul artists. Damn, these were the times.

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