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My first musical loves were The Jackson 5....what?!?! I was also in LOVE (capital "HEART") with Michael Jackson.

Then came Stevie Wonder; The O'Jays; Harold Melvin and the BlueNotes; Al Green; James Brown; Curtis Mayfield; Issac Hayes; Barry White; Earth, Wind, & Fire; Natalie Cole; The Commodores; Diana Ross; Candi Staton; Chic, Teena Marie...you get the picture: I'm a R&B, Soul/DiscoBaby.

Then came my era's music. Enter hip hop. The rest is history. My orientation to music changed with "The Message." Always a proud R&B/Soul baby, but with the entrance of hip hop...well that's was some other -ish [a listing of my fav hip hop groups soon come]. For me, hip hop was along side Prince, Michael Jackson, Shalamar, Luther Vandross, and some others that I can't think of right now.

Fast forward to my 20's and 30's...those years bought me into other realms of music. True to my musical foundation (Thanks, Daddy!) and true to my inclusive nature, I've come to have new favorites over the last 20 years: like Nina Simone, Olu Dara, Bobby McFerrin, Thelonious Monk, Charlie Parker; Duke Ellington; Bille Holiday; Ella Fritzgerald; and Jimmi Hendrix. The Blues and grown folks music was always in the background at the house parties my parents, aunts, and uncles used to throw. They played BB King, Millie Jackson, The Ohio Players, Richard Pryor, and Lenny Bruce.

I like to relax to "Native American Music," as well as European classical music, and "smooth jazz." I get inspired by traditional African song and drumming (esp. Yoruba music)

There is certain music that doesn't move me, but I think I'd get blasted if I were to say what that was (hee-hee).

The BEST independent artists are:
MO BEASLEY
Fertile Ground (LOVE THEM!)
Eric Roberson
Stori James
Toni Blackman
Universes
Rahzel (The Godfather of Noyze)
Sonia Sanchez (Full Moon of Sonia)
Mutaburuka
Tulani Kinard (Expressions of My Mind)
...and Nana Camille Yarbrough (Iron Pot Cooker).

Antwone Fisher
Hotel Rwanda
Brown Sugar
The Wiz (don't laugh!)
The Birdcage (...still, no laughing!)

Most films with Denzel (esp. The Great Debaters and Hurricane)

I have lots and lots of favs.

Harriet Ross Tubman
Assata Shakur
Malcolm X (El Hajj Malik)
Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King
Harry Belafonte
Paul Roberson
Ida B. Wells-Barnett
Sojouner Truth
Kwame Nkrumah
...and Sister Souljah