After he became successful musically, he invested in a chain of funeral homes. “Solomon Burke knock you dead from the bandstand. Then he gift-wrap you for the trip home,” fellow soul vocalist ...

Soul singer Solomon Burke, who wrote Everybody Needs Somebody ... a limousine rental firm and a funeral business.

Solomon Burke, the hit-making ’60s soul vocalist ... (Ever the entrepreneur, he ran a chain of funeral homes later in life.) After cutting a few unsuccessful sides for Philly indie Singular ...

Burke fathered his first child at age 14 and would go on to sire 14 daughters and seven sons. He was an entrepreneur with fingers in all manner of enterprises, including owning a chain of funeral ...

When soul man Solomon Burke showed up to meet with the president ... He still operates the family business -- funeral parlors -- in three states ("Last ones to let you down, first ones to pick ...

Solomon Burke, the American singer ... Later, he joined his aunt's funeral parlour business. Touring in the early 1960s, Burke was once booked to play an open-air show in Mississippi only to ...

James Solomon Burke was born in Philadelphia on March 21 ... school and subsequently went to work for his aunt, who owned a funeral parlor business. In 1960, Jerry Wexler signed Burke to Atlantic ...

Everything about the soul singer, Solomon Burke ... was studying to be a mortician as his uncle owned a funeral parlour. In 1960, Burke was signed by Jerry Wexler to Atlantic Records in New ...

After he became successful musically, he invested in a chain of funeral homes. “Solomon Burke knock you dead from the bandstand. Then he gift-wrap you for the trip home,” fellow soul vocalist ...

Solomon Burke, the hit-making ’60s soul vocalist ... (Ever the entrepreneur, he ran a chain of funeral homes later in life.) After cutting a few unsuccessful sides for Philly indie Singular ...

U.S. soul singer Solomon Burke died at Schiphol Airport in Amsterdam ... He won a Grammy as recently as 2003, owned a church a funeral enterprise and a limousine rental service.