Biography
William Hicks formed Soul Satisfaction in 1990 and has been going strong eversince. From Atlanta Georgia USA William Hicks has become the most prominent ambassador internationally of motown sound in the last two decades.
He has taken his Soul Satisfaction across the globe from its roots in Atlanta to Europe and Asia performing on land and sea. His genius has created several outstanding concept style shows Soul Satisfaction’s The History of Motown Show, the American Four Tops Motown Show, the American Legends Show and the Motown Classics Tour- with the slogan ‘Get Ready Cos Here We Come’ proceeding his arrival. There have been other groups that have tried to imitate the style of show that William has created but they have been unable to come up with the same standard. William was trained by the old school professionals.
Now he has created yet another show, The Supreme Divas of Motown. This delivers all the hits of the Supremes, Martha Reeves & the Vandellas, Aretha Franklin, Gloria Gaynor and Sister sledge together with the wonderful songs of Burt Bacharach.
“It is not enough to imitate motown you have to be able to create it”
William Hicks lives by Berry Gordy’s code of ethics, which is..practise, practise, practise, the philosophy that made the groups of Motown perfect.
All Soul Satisfaction shows feature the star and backbone Mr William Hicks on lead vocals “a big man with a big voice”. His superb vocal range seems to know no limits and his unique voice has been compared to that of Levi Stubbs of the original Four Tops. William is responsible not only for arranging the splendid vocal harmony structures of his backing singers but also for choreographing the high stepping impressive dance routines keeping things pure motown.
William’s resume is extremely impressive including supporting of Gladys Knight and Jennifer Holiday at the Atlanta Stadium and the original Four Tops and Temptations at Chastain Park in Atlanta Georgia.
“..He is a pleasure to work with..” ….(Gladys Knight).
William Hicks always delivers the same outstanding show with a phenomenal quartet who under his direction keep the music of the legendary Four Tops and motown alive worldwide as he takes you through the hits - Reach Out, Baby I Need Your Loving, I Can’t Help Myself (Sugar Pie), Standing In The Shadow, Bernadette, Walk Away Renee, Loco In Acapulco and plenty more from that era including songs of The Temptations, The Drifters, The Miracles, The Platters and The Stylistics as well as songs of Smokey Robinson, Ben E King and many more. The show is explosive.
Soul Satisfaction have toured extensively and including the States, Germany, Holland, Belgium, Spain and as well as Ireland and the UK leaving their audiences “dancing and chanting for more” and continuing to keep MOTOWN LIVE !
All other motown shows are “Standing in the Shadows” of the world famous William Hicks and his Soul Satisfaction Motown Show. It is quite simply “untouchable”!
William Hick's Presents
