Sentence examples for white soul from inspiring English sources

Last year, two Broadway shows depicted Simone as an inspiration for a couple of unexpected figures: in "A Night with Janis Joplin," she helped to provide her white soul sister with the gift of fire, and, even stranger, in the crude but enthusiastic "Soul Doctor" — which reopens Off Broadway this winter — she was the force behind the "rock-and-roll rabbi" Shlomo Carlebach.

"Did [Amy] invent white soul?

All the Negroes who had any business knowing knew what had happened, but not a white soul knew.

So you might have expected white soul with some hot guitar licks.

Most of these are white soul songs, a subgenre that typically prizes toeing the line and eschews innovation.

Black singers doing black music is a standard, but white soul singers often raise eyebrows – and become overnight stars.

It was the Jagger and Richards song Out of Time that gave the label its first homegrown hit with Chris Farlowe, London's finest white soul-shouter alongside the Small Faces' Steve Marriott.

Somehow, the description "neo-white soul singer" sounds inadequate to evoke the steam she elicited last Monday from songs associated with Billie Holiday, Nina Simone, Prince and others at 54 Below.

"Much Better," a slick white-soul number from the new album, ends that silence.

And so they punch out the blip-funk, laying on Mr. Ford's breathy white-soul robot voice, through various filters, as the top line.

As British white-soul crooners go, he's perhaps the most mellifluous since Boy George; if anything, his bottom notes are richer and his well-used falsetto more stratospheric.