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Friday, October 16, 2020
Kali Uchis Solita [2019]
Karly-Marina Loaiza [born July 17, 1994], known professionally as Kali Uchis [/ˈuːtʃis/ OO-chees], is a Colombian-American singer and songwriter. She debuted in the music industry with her 2012 mixtape, Drunken Babble, which was described as "genre-defying". She released her first EP, Por Vida, in 2015 to further recognition. Her debut studio album, Isolation, was released in 2018 to widespread acclaim.
Courtesy: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kali_Uchis
NPR Music Ozuna: Tiny Desk [Home] Concert [October 16, 2020]
From a verdant room tucked away in Miami, Ozuna's Tiny Desk performance might allow you, as it did me, to forget for a moment that he's one of the most watched and listened-to artists on earth. For someone whose work often operates at galactic proportions, this performance of five songs makes room for Ozuna's sweet tenor to take center-desk in a love letter to the global communities that supported and streamed him to god tier status. The Puerto Rican singer kicks it off with a breezy rendition of "Caramelo" that leads into a solo version of the sun-drenched "Del Mar" from ENOC, his fourth album that he's deemed a return to his roots. This pared-down performance makes good on that promise, reworking star-studded collaborations, like the ballad "Despeinada," as they should be sung: languorously and with intimacy. Even the pop smash "Taki Taki" sounds brand new, buoyed by his alchemical flow and energy. Ozuna is a crown jewel in the global crest of Latin pop, a movement whose modern success in reggaeton and Latin trap is indebted to the Caribbean genres Ozuna heard growing up in Puerto Rico, sounds like old-school reggaeton and reggae en español, dembow, dancehall and more. From then to now, Ozuna's bare talent remains his greatest asset. It's rare to see a star of his magnitude brush the earth so closely, and when it does, it's even rarer for it to feel and sound like second nature.
Courtesy: NPR Music Stefanie Fernández https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iK1uBBv83M0
Thursday, October 15, 2020
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson Your Daddy Loves You [May 1974]
Brian Robert Jackson a.k.a. Brian Jackson was born on October 11, 1952 to Clarence and Elsie Jackson, respectively a New York State parole officer and a librarian at the Ford Foundation. He spent the first two years of his life in Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn, later sharing a house in the Flatbush section of Brooklyn with his uncle Howard, wife Dorothy and young cousin Sidney until his parents separated by the time he was five. Unable to take on the responsibility of sharing mortgage payments alone, Elsie was forced to move to a one-bedroom apartment in Crown Heights, Brooklyn until she remarried in 1968. Jackson studied music in Fort Greene with his mother's childhood teacher, Hepzibah Ross [fondly called 'Aunt Heppie] with whom he took lessons for seven years. When Elsie was unable to continue payments for lessons, Aunt Heppie granted him a scholarship, simply stating that Jackson showed 'great promise.' His mother later married Alvin S.Lovell a General Practitioner from Bedford Stuyvesant who often donated his services to uninsured residents of the community. In 1968, their daughter and Brian's sister, Alison Lovell, was born. From 1965-1969 Jackson attended Brooklyn's Erasmus Hall High School, where he met other musicians and began to form bands on the outside while participating in school music programs.
Courtesy: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brian_Jackson_(musician)
Millie Jackson Till I Get It Right [1981]
Mildred Virginia Jackson a.k.a. Millie Jackson [born July 15, 1944] is an American R&B and soul singer-songwriter and former model. Beginning her career in the early 1960s, three of Jackson's albums have been certified gold by the RIAA for over 500,000 copies. Jackson's songs often include long, humorous, and explicit spoken sections. She recorded songs in a disco or dance music style and occasionally in a country style. Occasionally, Jackson has been called the "mother of hip-hop," or of rapping itself. According to the cataloguing site WhoSampled.com, her songs have appeared in 189 samples, 51 covers, and six remixes revealing the appeal of her proto-typical rapping style of delivery.
Courtesy: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Millie_Jackson
Sevyn Streeter ft. Davido Kissez [October 7, 2020]
Amber Denise "Sevyn" Streeter a.k.a. Se7en was born on July 7, 1986, in Haines City, Florida, to Tim and Karen Streeter. She grew up singing in church and talent shows; by the time she was 5, Streeter already knew she wanted to sing for a living. At the age of 10, she competed on Showtime at the Apollo and tied for first place by singing "My Funny Valentine".
Courtesy: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sevyn_Streeter
David Adedeji Adeleke a.k.a. Davido was born on November 21, 1992, in Atlanta, Georgia. His father Adedeji Adeleke is a business magnate and his mother Vero Adeleke was a university lecturer. Davido is the youngest of five siblings and his father's second-born son. He attended the British International School in Lagos and at the age of 16, he moved to Alabama, US, to study business administration at Oakwood University. Davido bought musical equipment while at Oakwood and started making beats. He also worked with his cousins B-Red and Sina Rambo to form the music act KB International. Davido dropped out of Oakwood University to pursue music full-time and relocated to London, where he worked on his vocals. After returning to Nigeria in 2011, Davido paused his music career and agreed to honor his father by enrolling at Babcock University. In July 2015, he graduated from Babcock with a degree in music after his father paid the university to start a music department for an inaugural class of one student.
Courtesy: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Davido
Wednesday, October 14, 2020
The Masterdon Committee Funkbox Party [Part 1] [1982]
This group hailed from 147th street in Harlem, New York in the mid 70’s. They made a single on Enjoy records called “Funkbox Party” in 1983. That single was a hit in New York all winter. Other records on Enjoy in 1983-4 were “We’re gonna get you hot” and “Music Gram”. It was later remade by Master P where the hook was “Make them say ughh”. I doubt Master P has given Masterdon any credit for the hit. Masterdon followed up the single in 1984 with “Funkbox Party II” (on Profile) which wasn’t as successful as the first single. Female member of the crew Pebblee Poo also had a solo hit on profile in 1985 called “Fly Guy”. This was an answer record to the Boogie Boys “Fly Girl”. “Get Off My Tip” was released in 1985 on Profile records without Gangster B and produced by Duke Bootee. Masterdon recorded a solo joint in 1985 on Enjoy Records called “Pay The Cost To Be The Boss”. He was the rapper and musician on the track. All of their other records were produced by Pumpkin and Bobby Robinson The Death Committee was one of the first truly diverse groups incorporating the Latin and female rappers. Although I don’t know the details, I hear Masterdon passed on in the early 90’s.
Courtesy: http://www.oldschoolhiphop.com/artists/emcees/masterdoncommittee.htm
Tuesday, October 13, 2020
Courtesy: WMEL RADIO: Dee Felice Trio There Was A Time [1969]
Soul Jazz piano instrumentals, produced by James Brown. The Dee Felice Trio were a groovy combo from Cincinnati, and James Brown took a shine to them at some point in the late 60s. Dee Felice Trio wonderfully well rounded instrumentation and varied set. The music is a mixed bag of soul, rock, blues, folk and bossa nova.
Courtesy: https://www.last.fm/music/Dee+Felice+Trio/+wiki
Monday, October 12, 2020
Sunday, October 11, 2020
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