There's a fun and interesting article that I just noticed in my Google blues alerts about a Chinese woman who feels like a black American blues singer.

Her name is Liu Sola and she is described in the Singapore Straits Times thusly:

And of her music, and her exposure to American jazz and blues, she says:

She even talks about what she calls "Nengliang -- energy of life. That's what black people refer to as soul."

You can read the Straits Time article right here. And then you can wonder just what Chinese soul food might be like.

And it all just goes to show just how boundless the appeal of blues and soul music can really be.