For many soul, R&B and hip-hop artists, it is where they first found the inspiration to entertain. Or it was the first place they could perform in front of a national audience. Or it was the first performance that made them really feel like THEY’D MADE IT!

Or all of the above. [photogallerylink id=98468]

Before the last Soul Train Awards, Atlanta personality Ramona DeBreaux had many of the notables on the red carpet recall what made the late Don Cornelius‘s creation, so special….

In this exclusive video,[lastfm link_type="artist_info"]TJ Holmes[/lastfm],[lastfm link_type="artist_info"]Lil Scrappy[/lastfm],[lastfm link_type="artist_info"]Kurtis Blow[/lastfm], and others recall the importance and the influence of Soul Train and the late[lastfm link_type="artist_info"]Don Cornelius[/lastfm]: