Black Melodies — Sorceress’ Songs and Sinner Saints

Black Melodies, by Eduardo Rodrigues, is a walk through the souls of the artists who helped to put the gospel religious fire with the profane sensuality of Soul together, and to enrich the horizons of Jazz, Rock and Blues. It has 30 articles and profiles originally published on the blog Negras Melodias, hosted at WordPress (www.negrasmelodias.wordpress.com).

The texts, specially rewritten for this edition, keep the smooth and flowing style from other works of this author.

In this book, Eduardo Rodrigues took off the veil that covers the biography of North-American and Brazilian black idols for showing the essential: underneath an attractive and sinful surface, the talent of a generation emerged with a song sexier and groovier of the 20th century  – and emerges from the other, in ascention, on the 21st century.

From Nat King Cole to Otis Redding, from Billie Holiday to Sam Cooke, from Chuck Berry to Cécile McLorin Salvant, the author presents us some of the main names in pop music in the US and Brazil.