Charles Bradley: Soul of America

The extraordinary rise of 62-year-old musician Charles Bradley is the focus of this documentary, capturing the soul singer’s journey from life in the projects to the wild success of his debut album No Time for Dreaming – named as one of Rolling Stone’s Top 50 Albums of 2011.

Despite being abandoned as a child, a period of homelessness, the devastating loss of his brother and constant poverty, Charles never gave up on his lifelong dream to be a professional singer. With the help of producer and Grammy-winner Gabriel Roth and musician and label owner Tommy Brenneck, Charles moved away from the James Brown covers he'd been performing for nearly half a century and focused on finding his own unique voice.

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