{"id":990,"count":4,"description":"American singer, songwriter, and musician.\r\n\r\nBorn: 3 May 1933 near Barnwell, South Carolina, USA.\r\nPassed Away: 25 December 2006 in Atlanta, Georgia, USA (aged 73).\r\n\r\nJames Brown was raised in poverty in Augusta, Georgia.\r\n\r\nPreviously worked as a shoe shiner, car washer & a cotton picker.\r\n\r\n1950s: Joined the Gospel Starlighters in 1953, a vocal quartet led by Bobby Byrd, after completing a four-year stint in prison for robbery. As Brown became the focal point of the act, the group changed its name to 'The Famous Flames' and its focus from gospel to R&B. In 1955 The Famous Flames record \"Please Please Please\" at the studio of WIBB in Macon, Georgia. In 1958 James Brown's first #1 hit, \"Try Me\", is released. It was the best-selling R&B single of 1958, and the first of 17 chart-topping R&B singles by Brown over the next two decades.\r\n\r\n1965: Records \"Papa's Got a Brand New Bag\", a revolutionary single that ushers in a whole new era of soul music. Released that summer, it tops the R&B chart for eight weeks and even cracks the pop Top Ten.\r\n\r\n1971: Signs with Polydor Records, for which he recorded extensively throughout the decade. \r\n1974: The Payback, the most successful of James Brown's Seventies albums\u2014many of which were double-LPs with lengthy, extended tracks\u2014makes its debut on Billboard's album chart. It is the only gold-certified (500,000 copies sold) album of his career.\r\n\r\n1984: Bronx DJ Afrika Bambaataa teams up with Brown to record the anthemic single \"Unity\".\r\n1986: \"Living In America\", the theme song from Rocky IV, reaches #4 on Billboard's Hot 100 chart, becoming Brown's biggest pop hit since \"I Got You (I Feel Good)\" went to #3 in 1965.\r\n\r\n1992: Receives a Lifetime Achievement Award at the 34th annual Grammy Awards.\r\n\r\n2006: Hospitalized with pneumonia,  dying on Christmas Day.\r\n\r\nInducted into Rock And Roll Hall of Fame in 1986 (Performer).\r\nInducted into Songwriters Hall of Fame in 2000.","link":"https:\/\/egiarecords.com\/eu\/artista\/james-brown\/","name":"James Brown","slug":"james-brown","taxonomy":"artista","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/egiarecords.com\/eu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/artista\/990","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/egiarecords.com\/eu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/artista"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/egiarecords.com\/eu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/taxonomies\/artista"}],"wp:post_type":[{"href":"https:\/\/egiarecords.com\/eu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product?artista=990"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}