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Her emotive vocal delivery was marked by raw intensity and soulful grit that left an indelible impact on listeners. Overcoming personal struggles like addiction and industry marginalization, she became one of the most influential singers of all time. Also ranks #6 on The 115 Best Female Jazz ...
Ma Rainey, as she was known, begansingingblues songs and contributed greatly to the evolution of the form and to the growth of its popularity. In her travels she appeared with jazz and jug bands throughout the South. While with the Tolliver’s Circus and Musical Extravaganza troupe, she exe...
And while it was her mother who possessed all of the talent in this realm—“My mother sang opera, she sang sentimental Victorian songs, she sang arias from Carmen, she sang jazz, she sang blues, she sang what Ella Fitzgerald sang, and she sang ‘Ave Maria,’” she once told Lears—...
In Presley’s wake, the music of Black singers such as Fats Domino, Little Richard, Chuck Berry, and Bo Diddley, who might have been considered rhythm-and-blues artists only years before, fit alongside the rockabilly-flavoured tunes of white performers such as Buddy Holly, Eddie Cochran, and...
While influenced by East Coast producers who loved sampling jazz and traditional soul records, Dr. Dre used his love of funk to craft his own sound, G-Funk, with samples from the likes of George Clinton’s Parliament-Funkadelic and other staples of the sub-genre. This spawned an entire ...
From the jangly and reverbed brit-pop of "Nowhere Left To Go", complete with male/female vocals, to the more crisp, summery sounds of "Lonely Halls", and even the haunting drone delays of "Red Fox", I can't help but feel as though I've been drugged with charm. This EP is ...
and reigniting my obsessional adolescent pop enthusiasms in my bedroom when I would play both Culture Club and Dead Or Alive on repeat and do pastel paintings of both lead singers – I went to their concerts, out of my mind with excitement, shrieking hysterically with female friends from scho...
From 1947, theTavistock Institute, Frankfurt School, Alsos Mission/Manhattan Nuclear Bomb Project, and theU.S. governmenthaveclandestinelycombined to try to depreciate, control and shape the art of black folk music (gospels, spirituals, chants, blues, jazz, rhythm & blues). For clarity, I will...
Great black female singers伟大的黑人女歌唱家Toni Morrison was such an exceptional talent and seemed to float so high above thefray, that its easy to forget she was a product of her time. But she was profoundlyinfluenced by the work of contemporary musicians. She wanted her writing to emulate...