 Latino artists began to draw inspiration from the Motown hits, and as a result, brown-eyed soul began sounding very similar to Black soul.Early brown-eyed soul artists owed little to traditional Latin and rarely performed in Spanish.Ritchie Valens, one of the original pioneers of brown-eyed soul music, also became one of the first brown-eyed soul artists to bring traditional Latin music and rock and roll influences into the genre.