Mother Trinity CME Church
Mr. Brown was fascinated with the power of music at an early age. When a friend taught him how to play the piano, he took to it right away. Mr. Brown’s family didn’t own a set of keys, so in order to get his fingers on the ivories he started sweeping the wood floors at Trinity CME. The church would let him practice his music on its sanctuary piano. This marked the beginning of one good foot in front of the other. Soul starts here.
Reverend Larry Fryer recalls how a young James Brown—without a piano of his own—would slip into the church to practice, discovering his sound on the very keys that shaped his earliest music.
