Paul Stanley's Soul Station

Rock legend and Kiss frontman Paul Stanley formed Soul Station in the late 2010s as an homage to the classic R&B and soul music he'd grown up loving. The large 15-member group began touring internationally, playing modern updates of vintage soul covers; in 2021, they recorded their debut album, Now and Then, which also included several Stanley-penned originals in a retro style. Growing up in the 1960s in Queens, New York, Stanley was drawn to the sounds of Motown, Philly Soul, and classic R&B artists like Solomon Burke and Otis Redding, both of whom he saw live. While he ulti...