Soul Deep: The Story of Black Popular Music (2005) | Full Cast

Sebastian Barfield

DIRECTOR

Kate Broome

DIRECTOR

Anna Gravelle

DIRECTOR

Alastair Laurence

DIRECTOR

Deep Sehgal

DIRECTOR

Francis Whately

DIRECTOR

Colin Salmon

Narrator

James Brown

Self

Etta James

Self

Jerry Butler

Self

Bobby Womack

Self

Solomon Burke

Self

Jerry Wexler

Self - Billboard Magazine 1947-1951

Gerald Early

Self

Peter Guralnick

Self

Earl Palmer

Self

Magnificent Montague

Self

Beyoncé

Self

Kelly Rowland

Self

Mary J. Blige

Self

Ray Charles

Self

Hype Williams

Self - Video Director

Lou Adler

Self

George Clinton

Self

Destiny's Child

Themselves

Mary Wilson

Self

Mavis Staples

Self

Steve Cropper

Self - Booker T. & the M.G.'s

Ruth Brown

Self - Singer

Wyclef Jean

Self

Clive Davis

Self - President, Arista Records 1974-99

Bootsy Collins

Self

Mathew Knowles

Self - Manager, Destiny's Child

Percy Sledge

Self

Branford Marsalis

Self - Saxophonist

Otis Williams

Self

Wilson Pickett

Self

Jimmy Jam

Self - Record Producer

Gene Barge

Self

Nelson George

Self - Music Writer

Barry Michael Cooper

Self - Music Writer

Ben E. King

Self

Allen Toussaint

Self - Pianist

Terry Lewis

Self - Record Producer

Martha Reeves

Self

Sam Moore

Self - Sam & Dave

Fontella Bass

Self

Candi Staton

Self

Ahmet Ertegun

Self - Atlantic Records

Andre Harrell

Self - CEO, Uptown Records 1986-96

Mable John

Self - Singer

Barrett Strong

Self - Songwriter

Lamont Dozier

Self

David Porter

Self - Songwriter

Brian Holland

Self

Eddie Holland

Self

Renaldo Benson

Self

Dan Penn

Self - Songwriter

Wilson Waters Jr.

Self

Abdul 'Duke' Fakir

Self

William Stevenson

Self

Greg Errico

Self

Spooner Oldham

Self - Songwriter

Luigi Creatore

Self

Daniel Wolff

Self

Wayne Jackson

Self - The Memphis Horns

Robert Hamlett

Self

Fred Wesley

Self

Al Bell

Self - Vice President, Stax

Stanley Crouch

Self - Music Critic

Isaac 'Dickie' Freeman

Self

Erica Kennedy

Self - Journalist and Novelist

Cosimo Matassa

Self - Record Producer

Mark Anthony Neal

Self

Cynthia Robinson

Self

Uriel Jones

Self - Drummer, The Funk Brothers

Dean Salvara

Young Ray Charles

David Ritz

Self - Music Writer

Pee Wee Ellis

Self

David 'Fathead' Newman Jr.

Self

Michael Lydon

Self - Biographer

Jerry Martini

Self

Rickey Vincent

Self - DJ and Music Critic

Alan Walden

Self - Otis Redding Management

Marvell Thomas

Self - Stax Musician

Barney Ales

Self

Greg Tate

Self - Music Critic

Portia Maultsby

Self - Professor, Indiana University

James Roberson

Self

Marshall Chess

Self

Mark Anthony Neal

Self - Professor, Duke University

L.C. Cooke

Self

Roosevelt Jamison

Self - James Carr's Manager

Deanie Parker

Self - Marketing Manager, Stax

Robert Margouleff

Self

Quinton Claunch

Self - Producer, Goldwax Records

Robert Pruter

Self

Carl Davis

Self

Malcolm Cecil

Self

Diana Ross

Self(archiveFootage)

Dick Clark

Self(archiveFootage)

Aretha Franklin

Self(archiveFootage)

Muhammad Ali

Self(archiveFootage)

Sam Cooke

Self(archiveFootage)

The Rolling Stones

Themselves(archiveFootage)

Otis Redding

Self(archiveFootage)

Sonny Liston

Self(archiveFootage)

Roebuck 'Pops' Staples

Self(archiveFootage)

The Staple Singers

Themselves(archiveFootage)

Johnnie Taylor

Self(archiveFootage)

The Dixie Hummingbirds

Themselves(archiveFootage)

Bertha Franklin

Self(archiveFootage)

R.H. Harris

Self(archiveFootage)