How to describe soulful music- an insightful narrative by Mr. Rajiv John Sauson, Photofit Music Company

 What do you think when someone says this song has a soul to it? What do you think when someone says this song is so soulful? Soulful music strikes a chord in a very distinct corner of your heart. Even human beings seldom tap on to such places in the heart but some songs just have the power to take us to a different world altogether or make us feel things that we never thought that we could experience.

Soul music is a sort of African American well-known music that prompted numerous later classifications, from funk and dance music to hip bounce and contemporary R&B. It was created in the USA in the last part of the 1950s from African American church music called "gospel music". After servitude finished in 1865, African Americans weren't wanted in the temples of white Americans, so they constructed their own houses of worship and sang Christian melodies with African-American vocal styles and rhythms. They sang euphoric, up-rhythm gospel tunes while applauding and moving to the beat, and they sang more slow gospel tunes that communicated profound sentiments like longing for God's affection. These various styles prompted the two principal styles of soul music.

Early Soul Music 

The principal soul tunes were made when gospel tunes were changed into common tunes by modifying the verses. Euphoric, up-rhythm gospel tunes became upbeat soul melodies, while more slow gospel tunes became heartfelt love tunes. An illustration of the up-beat style is R&B craftsman Ray Charles' 1954 tune I've Got a Woman (Way Across Town), a mainstream adaptation of the old gospel tune I've Got a Savior (Way Across Jordan). Another model is Ray's first hybrid hit ``What'd I Say in which he utilizes a gospel-music call and reaction to trade provocative "oohs" and "aahs" with the Raelettes, his female support vocalists. An illustration of the slower style is previous gospel artist James Brown's 1956 melody Please, Please, Please in which he changed a gospel tune about longing for God's adoration into a tune about longing for a young lady's affection. 

Another gospel vocalist who changed gospel tunes into common melodies was Sam Cooke. Sam had joined the gospel bunch Soul Stirrers as a young person, however, he had to leave the gathering in 1956 subsequent to recording the tune Lovable, a mainstream form of the gathering's gospel melody Wonderful. His excellent yet incredible voice can be heard on his initial 1957 hybrid hit You Send Me. The melody was excessively well known such that it supplanted Elvis Presley's Jailhouse Rock at the highest point of the popular music graphs. It was the first of almost thirty hybrid hits he recorded prior to composing his last and most prominent tune A Change is Gonna Come in 1964. The tune communicated his longing for a finish to prejudice, however before it was delivered Sam was killed in Los Angeles. Even though his life was stopped, his prosperity opened the way for some other African American soul vocalists

Recent fads of the 21st Century 

Neo-soul and the smoother hints of contemporary R&B proceeded into the 21st century, yet they were before long joined by two recent trends; "retro-soul" and "option R&B". Retro soul became famous after British jazz vocalist Amy Winehouse reproduced the hints of 60s soul on her Grammy-winning 2006 collection Back to Black. Her prosperity prompted the ascent of other retro-soul artists like Sharon Jones, Charles Bradley, Leon Bridges, and Michael Kiwanuka. 

Elective R&B, then again, started around 2010 when youthful specialists like Abel Tesfaye (a.k.a. The Weeknd) and Frank Ocean began utilizing both electronic and acoustic instruments to make grouchy pulsates over which they sang tormenting tunes about misery, compulsion, shock, and other troublesome subjects. From that point forward the name has been applied to numerous non-standard styles from the cutting edge R&B of Kelela and Janelle Monáe to Sampha and Blood Orange's lyricism and Childish Gambino's retro-funk. Simultaneously more standard contemporary R&B craftsmen, for example, Maxwell, SZA, Solange, Beyoncé, and Miguel have additionally been keeping soul music's heritage fit as a fiddle.

There’s an entire section of soulful music in Bollywood as well. Singers like Arijit Singh, Atif Aslam, Vardaan Singh have songs that will strike chords in your heart like no other. Photofit  Music Company has given out a number of soulful songs like Jaan Leja Baaki Hai, Yeh Dil Tujhe Yaad Kare, etc. and they are keen on enriching their content in this genre.