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Michael

Her pain has ended. 😢 R.I.P. 🕯

Sinéad O’Connor, acclaimed Dublin singer, dies aged 56

Michael D Higgins leads tributes to Irish musician, saying the country has lost an ‘extraordinarily beautiful, unique voice’

Born: December 8, 1966, Dublin, Ireland
Died: July 26, 2023

#SineadOConnor #SinéadOConnor #RIP #obit #passings #U2 #music #singer #MusicLegend 🕯🙏 🎶👩‍🎤

Sinéad O’Connor, acclaimed Dublin singer, dies aged 56

The Dublin performer found worldwide fame with hit single Nothing Compares 2 U in 1990

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mikhailmuzakmen@pod.geraspora.de
BeatclubFC

#art #politics #activist #singer #actor #legend #black-liberation #freedom #usa #rip

Harry Belafonte, the singer, actor and civil rights activist who broke down racial barriers, has died aged 96. RIP

Harry Belafonte Reflects on Life as a Singer, Actor and Activist

Harold George Bellanfanti, Jr .Harry Belafonte (born March 1, 1927) is an American singer, songwriter, actor, and social activist. One of the most successful African-American pop stars in history, he was dubbed the "King of Calypso" for popularizing the Caribbean musical style (Originating in Trinidad & Tobago) with an international audience in the 1950s. His breakthrough album Calypso (1956) is the first million-selling LP by a single artist.Belafonte is perhaps best known for singing "The Banana Boat Song", with its signature lyric "Day-O". He has recorded in many genres, including blues, folk, gospel, show tunes, and American standards. He has also starred in several films, most notably in Otto Preminger's hit musical Carmen Jones (1954), Island in the Sun (1957), and Robert Wise's Odds Against Tomorrow (1959).

Belafonte was an early supporter of the Civil Rights Movement in the 1950s and 1960s, and one of Martin Luther King, Jr.'s confidants. Throughout his career, he has been an advocate for political and humanitarian causes, such as the anti-apartheid movement and USA for Africa. Since 1987, he has been a UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador. In recent years, he has been a vocal critic of the policies of both the George W. Bush and Barack Obama presidential administrations. Harry Belafonte now acts as the American Civil Liberties Union celebrity ambassador for juvenile justice issues.

Belafonte has won three Grammy Awards, including a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award, an Emmy Award, and a Tony Award. In 1989, he received the Kennedy Center Honors. He was awarded the National Medal of Arts in 1994. In 2014, he received the Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award at the Academy's 6th Annual Governors Awards. In March 2014, he was awarded an honorary doctorate from Berklee College of Music in Boston.

Belafonte was born Harold George Bellanfanti, Jr. at Lying-in Hospital on March 1, 1927, in Harlem, New York, the son of Melvine (née Love), a housekeeper of Jamaican descent, and Harold George Bellanfanti, Sr., a Martiniquan who worked as a chef. His mother was born in Jamaica, the child of a Scottish white mother and a black father. His father also was born in Jamaica, the child of a black mother and Dutch Jewish father of Sephardi origins. Belafonte has described his grandfather, whom he never met, as “a white Dutch Jew who drifted over to the islands after chasing gold and diamonds, with no luck at all”. From 1932 to 1940, he lived with one of his grandmothers in her native country of Jamaica. When he returned to New York City, he attended George Washington High School after which he joined the Navy and served during World War II.[9] In the 1940s, he was working as a janitor's assistant in NYC when a tenant gave him, as a gratuity, two tickets to see the American Negro Theater. He fell in love with the art form and also met Sidney Poitier. The financially struggling pair regularly purchased a single seat to local plays, trading places in between acts, after informing the other about the progression of the play. At the end of the 1940s, he took classes in acting at the Dramatic Workshop of The New School in New York with the influential German director Erwin Piscator alongside Marlon Brando, Tony Curtis, Walter Matthau, Bea Arthur, and Sidney Poitier, while performing with the American Negro Theatre. He subsequently received a Tony Award for his participation in the Broadway revue John Murray Anderson's Almanac.

Harry Belafonte Reflects on Life as a Singer, Actor and Activist

Harry Belafonte is not only a musical icon, but also a lifelong political and social activist. Gwen Ifill talks with Belafonte about his life as a singer, actor and civil rights activist.

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#MasakiUeda – No Problem (1982)

jacket

00:00 - That's Alright
04:29 - Through The Night
08:55 - Hey! Baby
13:57 - Need Somebody
17:32 - Brother Louie
21:23 - Sweet Cupid
26:33 - Night Train To The Sky
30:34 - Mr. Pianoman
33:57 - Roulette
37:28 - Many Rivers To Cross

Masaki Ueda – No Problem
Profil: #Japanese #R&B / #soul #singer, and #singer-songwriter. Born July 7, 1949 in #Kyoto.
Label: #CBS/ #Sony – 28AH 1440
Format: #Vinyle, LP
Pays: #Japan
Sortie: 1982

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TRj4BDy-DZw
#musique #musique #rnb

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Michael

I came for the song but stayed for the show...

"I try" - Macy Grey

Always loved this song. And oh! What a performance, and as some comments say, one of the not fully recognized greats.
I knew her mostly from this song on NY FM radio. But I almost feel like I was there in this wonderful video I somehow missed.

If you are still reading and processing/visualizing however you like... At the very end of the vid, we get a free (original) Ya-HOOO!
10 minutes video clip; Live 2009

#music #musica #musique #musik #MacyGrey #singer #performer #Yahoo #2009 #ITry #Try

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Michael

Meanwhile, some vintage Woody Guthrie. Two Sides, really....
Some fine New Year's Resolutions for and by Woody Guthrie.

As described by banjo/guitar performer/teacher Joe Newberry. ("Context & Perspective")

Woody Guthrie's New Year's Resolutions, January 1, 1943.
I especially like 18, 19, 20, 25, and 31.

And a less rousing song about less uplifting thoughts the next year:

Cocaine Blues (1944)

#WoodyGuthrie #folklegends #folkmusic #singer #music #musica #musique #NewYears #Resolutions

Note: Woody Guthrie was a singer-songwriter known for politics (pro-socialism, anti-fascism) and music;
He wrote "This Land is Your Land" as an alternative to "God Bless America".

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