Posts Tagged ‘Aretha Franklin’
Laura Izibor Live
At roughly 10:30 PM February 24th, Laura Izibor creeps onto the stage at SOBs in New York City...
Aretha Franklin: Do Right Woman, Do Right Man
Aretha Franklin’s incomparable voice was one that inspired the music of the 1960’s Civil Rights movement. So it was rather fitting that she received honors from the great Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.,.
Aretha At Her Peak, part 2
By Mark Anthony Neal During those two nights in January of 1972, the New Temple Missionary Baptist Church in Los Angeles was the site of something truly amazing. The song list from the first night of the live recording session for Aretha Franklin’s Amazing Grace album reveals the eclecticism that would become the hallmark of Franklin’s ...
D.Lemon: Funny Is Funny
By Rob Kenner D. Lemon’s comedy career has been a long time coming. “It was in me since at least nine,” says the 30-year-old Brooklyn native, who always took a seat in the back of public school classrooms before graduating to Clark Atlanta University, where he fine-tuned his ability to make people laugh until they cough ...
Got Soul? Kindred and Noel Gourdin Damn Sure Do
By Keith Murphy It’s 2009, and R&B music has seemingly painted itself in the corner. In the hook-first-ask-questions-later era of the “rapper-ternt-sanga,” a traditional rhythm and blues megastar like Usher is now strikingly out of place. Yes, the same “king of R&B” who sold over 10 million copies in 2004 with Confessions barely squeaked to platinum ...
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