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Soul for Real
Soul for Real (also Soul IV Real): American contemporary R&B quartet of the four Dalyrimple brothers from Wyandanch, NY, formed 1992; debut single "Candy Rain" (1994) hit number 2 on the Hot 100 and the album went platinum; later albums For Life and Heat.
Soul II Soul
Soul II Soul, the London collective founded by Jazzie B (Trevor Beresford Romeo), began as a sound system and scored 1989 UK number one hits 'Back to Life' and the albums Club Classics Vol.1 and Volume II, winning two Grammys and still touring.
Soul music
Soul music: gospel-influenced African American popular music genre, also called soul, evolving from rhythm and blues in the late 1950s; defined by melismatic, improvisatory gospel vocals, call-and-response, and regional scenes at Stax, Motown, and Muscle Shoals.
Soul Train Music Award for Career Achievement
Soul Train Music Award for Career Achievement, originally the Heritage Award for Career Achievement and later the Quincy Jones Award, is a lifetime honor at the Soul Train Music Awards; recipients include Stevie Wonder, Quincy Jones, Smokey Robinson, Prince, Diana Ross, LL Cool J, and Jermaine Dupri.
Soul Train Music Awards
Soul Train Music Awards: annual American awards honoring African American music, founded by Don Cornelius in 1987; first ceremony March 23, 1987 at Santa Monica Civic Auditorium; BET-run, Thanksgiving-timed; suspended after 2023, revived for CBS in 2026.
Soul Train Music Awards ceremonies, 1990–1994
The Soul Train Music Awards ceremonies of 1990–1994 were the fourth through eighth annual editions honoring rhythm and blues, gospel, and rap, held each March at Los Angeles's Shrine Auditorium.
Soul Train Music Awards ceremonies, 2000–2004
The Soul Train Music Awards ceremonies of 2000–2004 were the 14th through 18th annual editions honoring R&B, hip-hop, rap, and gospel artists, held in Los Angeles.
Soul Train Music Awards top categories
Soul Train Music Awards top categories: the prize groupings of the awards show founded by Don Cornelius in 1987, from 14 committee-voted 1987 categories to Song of the Year, the Ashford and Simpson Songwriter's Award, and the 2026 fan-voted R&B/Soul Song of the Year and RNB X International Artist.
Soulfly
Soulfly is the heavy metal band founded by Max Cavalera after leaving Sepultura in 1996; active since 1997, it has released thirteen albums from Soulfly (1998) to Chama (2025).
Soulidified
Soulidified (briefly Iconyx) is an American R&B-pop boy band of Shade Jenifer, Malik Heard, Bradley Rittmann, and Landon Boyce, formed third-place on Netflix's Building the Band, later signed to Atlantic Records.
Soulistic Music (Black Coffee)
Soulistic Music is a South African record label founded in Johannesburg in 2005 by DJ and producer Black Coffee, releasing his albums and other house artists.
Soulja Boy
Soulja Boy (DeAndre Cortez Way, born 1990, Chicago) is an American rapper whose 2007 single "Crank That (Soulja Boy)" topped the Hot 100 for seven weeks, went triple platinum, and made him an early internet-viral, dance-craze hip-hop star.
Soulja Slim
Soulja Slim (James Adarryl Tapp Jr., 1977-2003), also known as Magnolia Slim, was a New Orleans rapper on No Limit Records whose Give It 2 'Em Raw (1998) nearly went gold and whose posthumous Juvenile duet "Slow Motion" hit No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 in 2004.
Soulquarians
Soulquarians: loose hip-hop/R&B collective (Questlove, D'Angelo, J Dilla, James Poyser, plus Badu, Common, Q-Tip) recording at Electric Lady Studios, late 1990s to early 2000s; named for shared Aquarius sign; produced Voodoo, Things Fall Apart, Mama's Gun; no group album released.
Souls of Mischief
Souls of Mischief: Oakland hip-hop group (Tajai, A-Plus, Opio, Phesto) of the Hieroglyphics collective, formed in the late 1980s; debut album 93 'til Infinity (1993, Jive) sold over 500,000 copies; independent since 1995.
Soumik Datta
Soumik Datta is a London-based British-Indian sarod player and composer who has performed with Beyoncé, Jay-Z, and Anoushka Shankar, and won the 2022 Aga Khan Music Award.
Sound & Fury (Sturgill Simpson album)
Sound & Fury is Sturgill Simpson's fourth studio album, a synth-heavy Southern rock record released September 27, 2019 on Elektra/Atlantic with a companion Netflix anime film directed by Jumpei Mizusaki.
Sound City Studios
Sound City Studios, Van Nuys recording studio opened 1969 in a former Vox building; home of a custom Neve 8028 console used on Nevermind, Fleetwood Mac and Tom Petty records; closed 2011, console moved to Dave Grohl's Studio 606.
Sound system (DJ)
Sound system (DJ): a crew-built rig of turntables, amplifiers and custom speaker stacks, born in 1950s Kingston with Coxsone Dodd and Duke Reid, spread to the UK via the Windrush generation, and central to clash, dubplate and club culture.
Soundcity TV
Soundcity TV, also known as Soundcity Africa, is a Lagos-based pan-African urban music and lifestyle channel owned by Consolidated Media Associates, broadcasting around the clock across Africa.
SoundCloud indie
SoundCloud indie is a guitar-led music scene on the SoundCloud platform blending alt-rock with hip-hop and lo-fi bedroom production; artists include bunii, Ebril, yiru, and kid moon, and the scene grew over 2.5 times in 2025.
Soundgarden
Soundgarden is an American rock band formed in Seattle in 1984, fronted by Chris Cornell. Among the first grunge bands, it peaked with Superunknown in 1994.
Soundgarden discography
Soundgarden discography: catalog of the Seattle grunge band, six studio albums from Ultramega OK (1988) to King Animal (2012), plus Screaming Life EP, Superunknown's Billboard No. 1, and a pending final album.
Sounding the Seventh Trumpet
Sounding the Seventh Trumpet, also shortened to Seventh Trumpet, is Avenged Sevenfold's 2001 metalcore debut album on Good Life Recordings: 13 tracks, 52 minutes, raw production, with 'Warmness on the Soul' as its piano ballad.
SoundOn
SoundOn is a music distribution and marketing platform owned by TikTok and ByteDance, launched in 2022, which lets independent artists upload to TikTok and streaming services while keeping ownership of their recordings.
Soundrenaline
Soundrenaline is an Indonesian rock and alternative music festival first held in Jakarta in 2002, later based in Bali and known for crowds above 100,000.
Sounds Good Feels Good
Sounds Good Feels Good is the second studio album by Australian pop-punk band 5 Seconds of Summer (2015, Capitol), produced by John Feldmann; it debuted at number one on the Billboard 200, UK, and ARIA charts, scoring 67 on Metacritic.
Sounds of Silence
Sounds of Silence is Simon & Garfunkel's second studio album, released by Columbia January 17, 1966. Built around the Tom Wilson-overdubbed electric folk-rock hit single "The Sounds of Silence", a #1 in January 1966.
Soundstorm
Soundstorm, also known as MDLBEAST Soundstorm, is a large annual music festival in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, held since 2019 and drawing hundreds of thousands of visitors.
Soundtrack
Soundtrack: the recorded audio of a film, TV show, or game, and the album derived from it; term dates to the talkie era (The Jazz Singer, 1929), spanning photoplay albums, orchestral scoring, and pop-song licensing.