"Anything great always starts with love," says soul-music aficionado Vonnie "Honey" Woods, whose means of expressing her sincere, simple passion for the music and its artists, has grown from a small mailing list about new music finds, to a weekly internet show called Soul 2 Soul (projectvibe.net), a morning radio show called Honey Soul's Sunrise (90.1 FM, KPFT Houston), and HoneySoul.com, a site that receives visitors from at least 15 countries, including the U.K, Canada, Netherlands, France, Sweden, Japan, China, Czech Republic, Poland, Denmark, The Philippines, Brazil, Jamaica, Germany and Austria. The site has ranked as highly as number 20 of out 198 million "soul music" searches on Google, and it has been referenced and/or acknowledged by Princes official site, Vibe.com, Eurweb.com, Capital Records, Okayplayer.com, AOL Black Voices, and Philadelphia Weekly - all in only two years.
After 40 interviews in one year - which Honey prefers to call "conversations" (with soul luminaries such as Maurice White, Chaka Khan, India.Arie, Teena Marie, Ron Isley, Brian McKnight, Meshell Ndegeocello, Van Hunt, Amel Larrieux, Donell Jones, Dwele and Syleena Johnson), Honey shows no signs of slowing down. The former banker and self-described "bridge ... between good old soul music and those of us who love it," is known for her command of the "art of conversation," for making the music the star ("It's never been about who I could talk to, but what I can reveal about music") and her emotion-centered definition of soul music. "From R&B to hip hop to jazz to gospel to rock, if you can feel it, I call it soul." Honey sums up her platform this way: "If you're a soul artist making meaningful music, lets talk."
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