The 10 episode series debuts on BET February 5th at 9 PM. Led by Sinqua Walls as Don Cornelius, the ensemble cast also includes Kelly Price, Jason Dirden, Iantha Richardson, Christopher Jefferson, Katlyn Nichol and Jelani Winston. Kelly Rowland will have a guest-starring stint as Gladys Knight. Singer/reality star K MIchelle has just been added to play a young Martha Reeves.

Inspired by the personal trials and professional successes of young, ambitious and troubled impresario Don Cornelius, American Soul is a 10-episode dramatic and unflinching look at the entrepreneur, his Soul Train dancers, crew and musicians in a cutthroat Hollywood in the 1970s and how they work, play, rise and fall against the backdrop of the show most responsible for the way the world perceived African-American culture.

Jesse Collins [[The New Edition Story, The Bobby Brown Story) Jonathan Prince [[creator of the similarly-themed American Dreams on NBC) and Devon Greggory executive produce. Don's son, Tony Cornelius, will co-executive produce alongside Andy Horne. Greggory will pen the pilot, and Jesse Collins Entertainment will produce.