James Brown (on May, 3rd 1933 — on December, 25th 2006) was born in South Carolina, however the life most part has spent and the State of Georgia has died in Atlanta. Has grown in poverty, earned on life small thefts, in 16 years has been sentenced to eight years of imprisonment for participation in a robbery. During prison time began to act for other prisoners, using a washing board and other simple adaptations. After an exit on freedom tried to find the calling in baseball and boxing. Under the invitation of the producer seeing its performance in prison, has registered in musical collective The Famous Flames and soon became its leader.

To Brown's 1963 creativity it was a little known outside of southern states of the USA though for "color" audience it was a star number one. The improvised rhythmical barrackings and incendiary style of dance it, according to one of biographers, "africanized" prudish enough rhythm-and-blues of that time. Brown considered as not casually idol one of the most radical trailblazers of a rock'n'roll — Litl Richard. Let out by Brown in 1956 the single «Please Please Please» was first signs of that emotional, deeply experienced approach to execution which has received subsequently the name «soul»

Gold time in Brown's musical career was necessary on the middle 1960 when its popularity has stepped over limits of Georgia and the next states. The extravagant executor tirelessly acted with concerts on all country. Its credo was the following: «Act longer and show to spectators more than on what they count that, buying tickets». At concerts he gave all the best to such degree that behind side scenes fell on a floor from a nervous exhaustion and it had to do glucose injections.