Soul music lost one of its great voices last week. Singer Howard Tate died Friday after a battle with cancer at the age of 72. Tate had made his name with a string of classic records including "Get It ...

I wonder whether 30 years from now well-meaning musicologists will be resuscitating second-tier rappers like Memphis Bleek and Masta Killa, who’ll thrill genteel audiences as reliably as the annual ...

Howard Tate believed the music industry used his soul and didn't give him anything for it. Depressed over not getting the royalties or bookings he felt he deserved, the musician disappeared from the ...

A spokesman for the Burlington County medical examiner says Tate was 72 when he died of natural causes Friday in Burlington City. Tate was born in Macon, Ga., and grew up in Philadelphia. In the late ...