It goes without saying that Kanye West, who celebrated a birthday yesterday, is one of hip-hop’s greatest producers.
soul (Middle English, from Old English sawol) – 1. the animating and vital principle in human beings, credited with the faculties of thought, actions and emotion and often conceived as an immaterial entity. 2. a sense of ethnic pride among African-Americans, expressed in areas such as language, social customs, religion and music.
With the increasing number of films aimed towards black audiences in the early 1970s, filmmakers realized that they couldn’t turn to Henry Mancini to provide the musical backdrops for these movies.
Yale University afforded the “Queen of Soul,” Aretha Franklin, a lot of R-E-S-P-E-C-T and love Monday, with a short musical tribute and sustained cheering, when she was awarded an honorary doctor of music degree.
Who knew that the girl that was born to a reverend & a singer in Mississippi, Tennessee about 60+ years ago would grow up to be known as “The Queen Of Soul”? If we could go back in time & put money down on it we would! (MAN!!!) Aretha Franklin was born today, March 25, […]
68 Years ago today the Queen of Soul was born in Memphis Tennessee as Aretha Louis Franklin. The soul, Jazz and Gospel afficionado was ranked #1 in Rolling Stone magazine’s greatest singers of all time.
Check out Aretha Franklin’s new Snickers commercial to see who you could become. Maybe it’s Aretha Franklin. Maybe it’s Liza Minnelli. Maybe you’ll just have to watch.
