Family, friends and peers of Miami music legend Sam Moore paid tribute and said “I Thank You” as the star was honored with laughter, tears and a choir at a memorial service and interment on a drizzly Friday afternoon.

Life got in the way. I became a young widow with two young boys, and later worked full time while attending college classes at night. Sam worked on his show business dream by singing at the King of Hearts club in Liberty City, where he met baritone David Prater.

American singer Sam Moore speaks during a ribbon-cutting ceremony at Florida International University Biscayne Bay Campus on Friday, Nov. 17, 2023, in North Miami, Fla. The ceremony was held to ...

Sam Moore, the surviving half and higher voice ... but didn’t meet until 1961 in Miami. Moore helped coach Prater on the lyrics of a song and they quickly became a popular local duo.

Mr. Moore and Dave Prater stormed the R&B and pop charts with indelible hits like “Soul Man” and “Hold On, I’m Comin’.”

MIAMI — Sam Moore, the towering tenor of the Sam & Dave soul music duo whose mid-1960s hits “Soul Man” and “Hold On, I’m Comin’ ” soundtracked the lives of countless fans and then heard in film and TV for generations, died Friday at a Miami hospital, his wife, Joyce Moore, said.

Sam Moore, who influenced musicians including Michael Jackson, Al Green and Bruce Springsteen, was inducted with Dave Prater into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1992.

Moore and his late partner Dave Prater cut some of the best-known soul records with hits like “Soul Man” and “Hold On! I’m Comin’.”

MIAMI — Sam Moore, the towering tenor of the Sam & Dave soul music duo whose mid-1960s hits “Soul Man” and “Hold On, I’m Comin’ “ soundtracked the lives of countless fans and then ...

The dynamic soul and R&B artist and Rock & Roll Hall of Fame inductee died this week in Florida at the age of 89.

Sam Moore of Sam & Dave called Scottsdale home for 30 years. His friend Alice Cooper says, "There's a Phoenix family and he was certainly part of it."

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