African American GOLDEN LEGACY

 

 Would America have been America without her 

  Black (soul) music ?      

Black musicians have been PACE-SETTERS and leaders in the world of music. Ranging from the styles of....  Little Richard.... to Satchmo...to James Brown....to  BB King....to Chubby Checker.... to Bo Diddley... to Aretha Franklin...to... Stevie Wonder....to  Billie Holiday....to Smokey Robinson... to THE SUPREMES...to Marvin Gaye...and Kirk Franklin (and many others)-- African Americans have been the creative leaders -- whose music has been copied and stolen by many "great white singers and artists." 

LONG BEFORE Elvis Presley, the Beatles, Bill Haley & the Comets, the Beach Boys, and similar others ---BLACK MUSICIANS WERE CREATING...rock & roll, blues, and jazz sounds.

THE KING OF POP....Michael Jackson

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WmxT21uFRwM

Michael Jackson passed away to the next world June 2009.

He earned 13 Grammie Awards for his music and numerous other awards and honors.

 

Listen to the BLACK NATIONAL ANTHEM...written by James Weldon Johnson...

 

Elvis Presley copied this woman's music --

         LISTEN to Big Mama Thorton:  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5XUAg1_A7IE

 

              

     LISTEN to Big Joe Turner:  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=20Feq_Nt3nM

 

James Brown...the Godfather of Soul:

VIDEO:  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M53-Mb1KDZ0

 

                           

                TEMPTATIONS VIDEO:   http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ltRwmgYEUr8

African American music expressed the deepest sentiments, concerns,  hopes, and dreams of Black people --- and of most people in the world.

                      

                     LISTEN TO HAROLD MELVIN & THE BLUE NOTES--

                          http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=itUrjWNGnZQ

              

                

 

Music created by African-Americans is the root of all the popular jazz,  rock & roll, gospel and rap.

BLACK MUSIC has made a profound contribution to all American music.

 

       

LISTEN TO MARVIN GAYE:  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IkYx--x9wa0

               

WATCH WHITNEY HOUSTON AND NATALIE COLE PERFORM:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-uE1Dho_3UA

 

                           

THE GREAT ISAAC HAYES...performing his hit theme song for the movie...."Shaft"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L2cHkMwzOiM

 

                   LISTEN TO THESE SISTAHS --

                       http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vug3gCve_xM

 

             

                

LISTEN TO THE O'JAYS --  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z1LQNsqp9Fc

 

             

GOSPEL MUSIC STILL SOOTHES OUR SOULS:

Listen to Kirk Franklin

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LADY SINGS THE BLUES...

            

          http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h4ZyuULy9zs

      Listen to the classical "Lady Day" --- BILLIE HOLIDAY

 

Bo Diddley --

          

LISTEN to Bo Diddley--  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qs8FJergjas

Bo Diddley, a founding father of rock 'n' roll whose distinctive "shave and a haircut, two bits" rhythm and innovative guitar effects inspired legions of other musicians, died Monday, June 2, 2008 after months of ill health. He was 79.

 

NO PEOPLE KNOW THE BLUES...LIKE BLACK PEOPLE...

This video shows how music was used in protest during the Civil Rights Movement:

 

Jazz is a unique and innovative musical form that was created in the U.S.A. by Black people.   Musicians such as:   McCoy Tyner,  Donald Byrd, Pharoah Sanders,  Alice Coltrane, Satchmo,  Santana, Leon Thomas, Billie Holiday, Herbie Hancock, Nina Simone,  etc. -- put Jazz on the map.

                                     Listen to Nina Simone -- 

                                      http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5T3FXFnoTzE

Dr.  NINA SIMONE passed away after a long illness at her home in her villa in Carry-le-Rouet (South of France) on April 21, 2003. As she had wished, her ashes were spread in different African countries.

The Diva, who was as well an Honorary Doctor in Music and Humanities, has an unrivalled legendary status as one of the very last 'griots". She is and will forever be the ultimate songstress and storyteller of our times.

          

Listen to Leon Thomas perform..."The Creator Has a Master Plan"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KZK80Mesqq0

 

LISTEN to John Coltrane play one of his classics:  "A LOVE SUPREME"

--- recorded in 1965

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NbqtA98eg9U

 

AFRICAN CONNECTIONS:

 

 

Poetry is an art-form that has existed in cultures all over the world.   Poems are beautiful music of language.   Poets are great communicators who use language to persuade -- to teach-- and to entertain. It is a unique way of expressing feelings, opinions, romance, social concerns, politics and goals -- with cadence, rhythm, and style. 

RAPPIN' was a  highly respected vocal art-form that started before slavery in Africa...and was made more popular during the 1960's by "Spoken Word Artists," ...such as --

GIL SCOTT HERON  -- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uTCQSk2l8bc

 

and -- THE LAST POETS.

      

 LISTEN to "The Last Poets"  --  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1O7MWLdOU7c

 

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