Burna Boy
Damini Ebunoluwa Ogulu born 1991 in Nigeria. AKA ‘Burna Boy’.
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Berry Gordy Jr.
Berry Gordy Jr. founded Motown Records, the most successful black owned music company in the history of the United States, 1960.
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Geoffrey Holder was the first black man to be nominated for two Tony Awards for direction and costume design, The Wiz; 1975.
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It wasn’t about who left, it was about who came back. Lots of folks did.
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I have fewer than six degrees of separation from the group: they competed against Oakland School for the Art’s (OSA) Vocal Rush in The Sing Off, they also performed at my church, Heart and Soul Center of Light and my son and nephew hung out with them pre concert in the green room.
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I got to go to a dance party and danced for 2 hours straight. I recognized all of the songs played by DJ Kiss. Prince delivered what he promised. I was very close to the stage and was no more than 10 feet away from Prince! I was at Paisley Park. Have you been to […]
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The Straight Outta Your Hometown meme has 6 million downloads to date. Learned the birth names of some of the N.W.A. members: Eric Wright a.k.a. Eazy E, Andre Young, a.k.a. Dr. Dre, O’Shea Jackson, a.k.a. Ice Cube. There was no extra security at the Grand Lake Theatre in Oakland, California where I saw the movie. […]
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He knows how to get high on music and take us all along for the ride. He went to a Warriors game and mentioned Steph Curry in a song. No one compares to him! No one struts and walks with a cane like The Purple One. No one is funkier than Prince. No one is […]
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He tied Lil Wayne’s Billboard Hot 100 record for most appearances for a solo artist. He has been on the chart 132 times Elvis is second with 108, followed by James Brown, 91, and Jay Z 86. The cast of Glee holds the top spot at 207. One Dance is the first Spotify track to […]
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When she came out as a lesbian she told Vogue: “I held in being sexually attracted to women for so long that once I got that out of me, the music became easy.”
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