"soft soul" is a correct and usable phrase in written English
It can be used to describe someone who is kind and gentle in nature, or who expresses their emotions openly and readily. For example, "The soft soul of the young woman was evident in the way she cared for others."
I'm from the punk generation, but I make romantic, soft soul music.
Unfortunately he influenced a generation of soft soul singers who mainlined his ease but not his thrust.
He was making soft soul in a time when it was easier to acknowledge the first part of that arrangement than the second.
These days the line between soft soul and smooth jazz can be thin, if not outright blurry, but there are other, more tasteful intersections of jazz and soul happening in more obscure corners.
Though Plater wrote the part for Tom Courtenay, Oliver is played by a greying Alan Bates, a long way from A Kind of Loving, as a wounded soft soul who lets wordplay help in life's decisions.
JON PARELES DUFFY "Endlessly" (Mercury) Duffy's debut album, "Rockferry," released in 2008, was all about boundaries, displaying how neatly this fragile-sounding Welsh singer could fit into precast molds: pre-Motown soft soul, Dusty Springfield and other polite styles of decades past.
With saturnine red lights bathing the crowd and creating an otherworldly tone, Stevens and his band started with 'Redford (For Yia-Yia & Pappou)', a soft, soul-buffeting quasi-instrumental designed for the coo of wordless vocals, a suitably transporting introduction for a distinctive and stylised set.
Polite to a fault, he was a soft and gentle soul who prided himself on being different to other celebrities.
The reality is that deep down, a soft and gentle soul lies hidden, waiting to be conversed with in a kind and understanding way.
It contains, within its squishy-soft soul, a multitude of disturbing assumptions about Americans and what they really want to eat.
His pal Tom Peter Carolll) is a softer soul.
