{"id":11667,"date":"2025-12-07T10:25:36","date_gmt":"2025-12-07T10:25:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/actulumiere.com\/steve-cropper-soul-musics-unsung-hero-has-died\/"},"modified":"2025-12-07T10:25:36","modified_gmt":"2025-12-07T10:25:36","slug":"steve-cropper-soul-musics-unsung-hero-has-died","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/actulumiere.com\/en\/steve-cropper-soul-musics-unsung-hero-has-died\/","title":{"rendered":"Steve Cropper, soul music&#8217;s unsung hero, has died"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<figure class=\"article__media\"> <picture class=\"article__media\">  <\/picture> <noscript>  <\/noscript><figcaption class=\"article__legend\" aria-hidden=\"true\">Guitarist Steve Cropper during rehearsals before Otis Redding&#8217;s concert at the Olympia, Paris, March 21, 1967.  <span class=\"article__credit\" aria-hidden=\"true\">JEAN-PIERRE LELOIR\/GAMMA-RAPHO<\/span>  <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph  \">Steve Cropper was one of those towering figures working behind the scenes who helped shape the history of popular music. A pillar of Stax Records \u2013 a label that, alongside Motown, shaped the very foundations of soul \u2013 the American guitarist, songwriter and producer died on Wednesday, December 3, in Nashville, Tennessee. He was 84 years old.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph  \">Cropper&#8217;s playing style, known for its clear&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lemonde.fr\/en\/obituaries\/article\/2025\/12\/07\/steve-cropper-soul-music-s-unsung-hero-has-died_6748239_15.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Guitarist Steve Cropper during rehearsals before Otis Redding&#8217;s concert at the Olympia, Paris, March 21, 1967. JEAN-PIERRE LELOIR\/GAMMA-RAPHO Steve Cropper&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[448,454],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11667","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-france"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/actulumiere.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11667","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/actulumiere.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/actulumiere.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/actulumiere.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/actulumiere.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11667"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/actulumiere.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11667\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/actulumiere.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11667"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/actulumiere.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11667"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/actulumiere.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11667"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}