Who is the Northern Soul dancing girl?

Levanna McClean
Levanna McClean is known as Northern Soul Girl, with videos of her dancing to old records amassing millions of views on social media. Bristol influencer Levanna wants to keep the music, which is intrinsically linked with certain ways of dancing, alive.

What is Northern Soul dancing called?

Northern soul is a music and dance movement that emerged in Northern England and the English Midlands in the late 1960s from the British mod scene, based on a particular style of Black American soul music, especially from the mid-1960s, with a heavy beat and fast tempo (100 bpm and above) or American soul music from …

Where is levanna from?

Levanna Orientale – 3.555 m. Levanna Centrale – 3.619 m….

Levanna
Location	Savoie, France Metropolitan City of Turin, Italy
Parent range	Graian Alps

Who started northern soul dancing?

Origins of Northern soul date back to the late 1960s’ underground rhythm and soul scene. Thousands of teenagers in the North of England danced to the same syncopated beat, revolting against the charts. The music and dance movement combined American soul and Motown music with distinctive dance styles.

Whats the difference between soul and northern soul?

Northern soul generally refers to the soul music of the mid-Sixties and always to obscure 45 singles which did not receive much airplay in England or America. The obscure soul classics they loved were often uptempo (though an occasional mid-tempo song would work itself in) and would ape the popular Motown sound.

Why did northern soul originate?

Why do Northern soul dancers use talc?

Simply called Northern Soul, it recreates the atmosphere of soul clubs where rare records were spun, and dancers scattered talc to make moves easier.

Why is Northern Soul called Northern Soul?

I devised the name as a shorthand sales term. It was just to say, if you’ve got customers from the north, don’t waste time playing them records currently in the US black chart, just play them what they like – ‘northern soul’.