British soul, Brit soul or the British soul invasion is soul music performed by British artists. Soul has been a major influence on British popular music since the 1960s, and American soul was extremely popular among some youth subcultures, such as mods, skinheads and the northern soul movement. However, a clear genre of British soul did not emerge until the 1980s, when a number of black and white artists who made soul their major focus began to enjoy some commercial success. The popularity of British soul artists in the United States in the 1990s and 2000s led to talk of another British Invasion or a soul invasion.

Widespread British interest in soul music developed after the advent of rock and roll from the mid-1950s and the subsequent interest in American music. In the early 1960s, rhythm and blues, including soul, was particularly popular among some members of the beat music boom, including The Beatles, and among bands of who contributed to the British blues boom, including The Spencer Davis Group, The Small Faces, The Rolling Stones, The Kinks and The Who. Most of these were popular with members of the Mod subculture, out of which grew the northern soul movement, in which northern English youths avidly collected and played rare soul records.

Don Fardon (born Donald Maughn, 19 August 1943, Coventry, Warwickshire) is an English pop singer.

His biggest success was to be his cover version of John D. Loudermilk's "Indian Reservation" (1970, UK: #3,U.S.: #20,Australia: #4). The global sales were estimated at over one million copies. Before his solo success, Fardon was singer with The Sorrows.

His follow-up single "Follow Your Drum" reached #16 on the Australian Singles Chart in May 1972.

In 1973 his track "Delta Queen" reached #86 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart. He covered The Kinks' hit, "Lola" in 1974. Fardon also released a cover version of "Running Bear". In 2006 he re-released his single, "Belfast Boy", in tribute following the death of George Best.

His recording of the song "I'm Alive" (a cover of Tommy James & The Shondells) has been featured in a UK television advertisement for Five Alive fruit drinks, and a Dutch Vodafone commercial. On the back of the success of the latter, "I'm Alive" was reissued in the Netherlands and in March 2011, it reached the Top 20 of the Dutch singles chart.

Trevor Nelson MBE (born 7 January 1964 in Hackney, London) is an English DJ and presenter.

Born in Hackney to a family of St Lucian heritage, he attended Central Foundation Boys' Grammar School (now known as Central Foundation Boys' School) in Cowper St, Islington, London EC2 and Westminster Kingsway College. His first job was in a shoe shop, but his love of music meant a part time role as a DJ. Nelson gained day time work at a record importer in 1985, and widened his DJ experience putting on "warehouse parties" on the weekends. Nelson then worked in A&R for record labels Cooltempo and EMI, promoting artistes such as D'Angelo, Mica Paris and Lynden David Hall; while also promoting events, including his own Soul II Soul and The Lick.

Nelson began DJing on pirate radio station Kiss from 1985, which when it gained a broadcasting license in 1990 to become Kiss FM, Nelson became a director and day time DJ. Nelson moved to BBC Radio 1 in 1996 to present the first UK national R&B show "Rhythm Nation," and a year later began a Saturday afternoon program which resulted in him winning a MOBO Award in 1997 as Best DJ. He now also presents the 10:00 until 13:00 show on BBC Radio 1Xtra, and a Soul show on Wednesday evenings on BBC Radio 2 since April 2008 which is produced by independent production company Somethin' Else. During the summer season Nelson performs weekly sessions in the Global Room at the nightclub Pacha in Ibiza. Was at the KIC FM for the Launch of the station is a big fan of the station.

John Richard 'Jackie' Lomax (b. 10 May 1944, Wallasey, Cheshire, England) is a British guitarist and singer/songwriter best known for his association with George Harrison and Eric Clapton. He currently lives in Ojai, California, USA with his wife, Annie (previously Norma Richardson), mother of fashion photographer Terry Richardson.

In early 1962, Jackie Lomax left Dee and the Dynamites to join Merseybeat band The Undertakers. They followed the same route as The Beatles through local venues before setting out for Hamburg, Germany and finally securing a record deal. From that point onwards, they were dogged by ill-luck and lack of success. They signed with Pye Records and released four singles which only managed to place one week on the British charts between them. In 1965 they moved to America to try their luck there.

After two years in America with The Undertakers and a couple of other groups, Jackie Lomax's latest band, The Lomax Alliance, were taken back to Britain in 1967 by Brian Epstein to showcase them at the Saville Theatre in London. He arranged for a single and an album to be recorded and they signed to CBS. Epstein's untimely death ruined the plans for the band. During that period CBS released two Lomax Alliance singles and one solo Jackie Lomax single. More than enough tracks for an album were recorded but it was never released.

Rasheed Ogunlaru is the author of The Gift of Inner Success, A Zest for Business and business coach partner of the British Library's Business & Intellectual Property Centre [1].

Ogunlaru was born in London in the early 1970s to Nigerian parents. He was educated at Haberdashers' Aske's Boys' School. Ogunlaru spent the first 10 years of his career from the age of 18 working for Which?. It was here that he first got a taste of coaching when he trained key members of staff to appear on TV, radio and in the press.

In the late 1990s redundancy led Ogunlaru to pursue his passion as a singer-songwriter but his own career was without commercial success. However he helping others promote their careers utilizing his media skills. At this time he also became a volunteer for the Samaritans in central London with whom he served as Co-Director 2003-2005. He continued working part time in media and PR, including a spell as Communications Manager for the UK College of Family Mediators.

From 2001-2004 Ogunlaru ran the The Mind, Body & Spirit of Singing which he founded with Marcus Fellowes. It focused on helping artists find deeper levels of awareness in their selves, singing and careers. During this time Ogunlaru trained and later qualified as a Professional Life Coach with the Coaching Academy --with whom he later returned as an external trainer.