Don Cornelius Soul Train Creator Found Dead American Bandstand

Don Cornelius Soul Train Creator Found Dead American Bandstand: Live performance of black music, "American Variety." Create simulated.

Don Cornelius, $ 400 for a television station in Chicago Dance in 1970 to begin shooting the local pocket. "Soul Train" host and executive producer, she was soon syndicated national institute of television's first black dance music program for teenage taste and also help bring black music on the accelerator, dance, fashion and style to the mainstream in America.

Soul, funk and R & B during the presentation day, African hair, an icon of television, the intimate company of Mr. Cornelius' in the fashion. " Welcome to the hearing, was a baritone

Mr. Cornelius, 75, died at Cedars Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, a family member was found in his house with his head wound after the announcement on Wednesday, according to sources in the law. Self-inflicted, but the death was for the police and the coroner examined by the Bureau.
On Wednesday, as Mr. Crow knew that their influence on American culture.

"Don was a visionary and our company," producer and musician Quincy Jones, the giant said in a statement. "Was there a train to the" spirit "in the upper part of MTV, the great legacy of Don Cornelius. TV, music and culture in general will never be adapted." Your contribution to the

Aretha Franklin said that Mr. Cornelius' community of young adults and their own world. "

"Soul Train", the young, with the installation of a world standard rate of progressive brother and young entrepreneurs, aspiring African-American men and Television "from Chicago, who appeared on the show, Franklin, said in a statement." He crossed the barrier between young people become one . " "Soul Train", which moved to Los Angeles and in national syndication in 1971, and other great artists, James Brown, Marvin Gaye, Jackson 5, Barry White, in particular, in the center of attention.

With the introduction of eye-catching animation, smoke spewing locomotives with the psychedelic "Soul Train" television destination for young people across America in the '70s. " it lasted until 2006.

Robert Santelli, Executive Producer of the Grammy Museum in Los Angeles, Los Angeles Times on Wednesday that the "Soul Train Soul Music for America," Estrada in a roll rock 'n' in the beginning, and Don Cornelius for a black Dick Clark was like.