was finally just enough tolerance in this country to allow those traits to manifest themselves. She accepted the responsibility of role model for the future with grace and passed on a vast legacy of accomplishments to be not only met, but surpassed by the African American singers who followed ...
African Americans have had a profound impact on the development of music in the United States.Afrocentric Voicesfocuses on classically trained American singers and composers of African descent and on the vocal music forms they influenced, especially opera and art songs–including Negro spirituals compos...
The African-American elite—the movie stars, the singers, the ball players, the politicians, the preachers, the scholars—were all part of her flock. They were eager to talk to her about their trials and triumphs and then, if they were lucky, grace her cover for the whole nation to see...
InQueen Kidjo, the five-time Grammy® winner reflects on her birth in Benin and successful musical career there, her inspiration from singers James Brown, Miriam Makeba and Bella Bellow, and her launch into superstardom where s...
Just like artists before me: Anita Baker,Gladys Knight,Patti LaBelle,Dionne [Warwick]. Whitney Houston, I like to think she set it, she was the pinnacle, what we all wanted to be. She reminded us that even though we are women of color, we're R& B singers, we can ...
Country: BrazilLyrics: Roots samba praising a caged songbird (Tiê) of her childhood and chanting oxá.Notes: Originally written by Dona Ivone Lara, one of Rio’s best traditional female samba singers.26:20-29:00Artist: Antonio Carlos E JocafiTrack name: Conceição da PraiaLP name: Mudei...
“It was a great honour learning how to write pop music in the American context. Their favourite songs were the ones in Kiswahili. They would be like “we don’t know what you are saying but it sounds provocative. The melody is fire”. ...
(born Songo la Maya, Cuba, 1946) With his trademark cowboy hat and penchant for wearing black, Eliades Ochoa has been dubbed "Cuba's Johnny Cash." There's more than a fashion statement in the comparison to America's greatest country singer, too, for Ochoa is a "guajiro" (from the ...
It is at this point in American history that commitment faced confrontation, with the Old South and Jim Crow being faced with the winds of societal change for a more inclusive country. The church houses became the rallying place to plan, support, protect, and preach for a new “great ...
In terms of cultural and intellectual lineages, the designation of his scholarly discipline as “ethnology” suggests a Soviet-inflected, pan-American, post-1959 Revolutionary tradition of scholarship. 6 See https://www.afrocubaweb.com/juangarcia.htm (accessed on 19 October 2021). 7 See also ...