My favorite music is rock and roll.
Gotta love some Rock and Roll.  It's one of my favorites as well.
I like the fact that is a genre of popular music that originated and evolved in the United States during the late 1940s and early 1950s
Indeed it did.  I was speaking to a friend earlier about James Brown and how he influenced so many genres of music starting in the 60's.
The "Godfather of Soul". James Brown. 
Born in the early 1930's.
He was the progenitor of funk music and a major figure of 20th century popular music and dance