Female Portuguese Names. [ Suggest Names for this page ] [ Go to Male Portuguese Names ] Page 1 of 1. AMÃ©LIA: Portuguese form of German Amalia, meaning work.. ANA: Portuguese and Spanish form of Latin Anna, meaning favor; grace.. Compare with another form of Ana.
Soul is a popular music genre that originated in the United States in the 1950s and early 1960s.oul music dominated the U.S. African-American music charts in the 1960s, and many recordings crossed over into the pop charts in the U.S. Otis Redding was a huge success at the Monterey Pop Festival in 1967. The genre also became highly popular in the UK, where many leading acts toured in the late 1960s.
It combines elements of African-American gospel music, rhythm and blues and jazz. Soul music became popular for dancing and listening in the United States; where record labels such as Motown, Atlantic and Stax were influential in the civil rights era.ome soul artists developed funk music, while other singers developed slicker, more sophisticated, and in some cases more politically conscious varieties. By the early 1970s, soul music had been influenced by psychedelic rock and other genres. The United States saw the development of neo soul around 1994.