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This is where I adore other music artists and their creations! There are so many I will be citing as personal heroes and as people and artworks I've grown up with, that I'll be adding along as we go along in time together, so, let me first start with the man who probably started it all with me and with most people in the Western world, if not the entire world, James Brown. I had wanted to meet him someday. I have attended his concerts, and once, my parents lifted me up almost onto the stage, right in front of the man himself! I thought we made eye contact - I'm sure of it - and I already so loved him and his music that I was dancing around, mesmerized by his music, his style, his presence, and that Smile he sent down to me! That's as close as I'll ever get now. He's in heaven, doing his heavenly music there now. what a jolt for all of us! And yet, that electricity generated by him, that musical magical current, will go on forever! Were you aware that sounds, once made here on our own little planet, resound out into the universe FOREVER? So, while we are gyrating and zooming inside and out to James Brown's sound that is, let's face it, a huge part of ALL pop music and always will be a part of our own bodies - that hot funk sound, that hot funk orchestra in sync, that hot voice is entertaining God Himself somewhere out there!!!
Rest in Peace, but I'm not sure if someone so alive could ever be thought of that way, so, let's think of James Brown as we always have, and let him entertain us the rest of our lives as well as the future generations who have him to look forward to!
But films
willl never document what it was like to see them all arrayed in a line,
horizontally, playing like one instrument at James' design, while he'd
prance and do acrobatics no one else could do, meanwhile singing his heart
out! Arthur Lee
Arthur Lee is another one of our GREATS we lost in the last year. Lead Singer, and genius ground-breaker of cross-overs from pop to ballad, from rock to avant garde, from soul to crooning, from African-American to mainstream audiences, he single-handedly advanced what was then "hippie" music, of the real psychedelic style, back when Love One Another was the credo, Arthur Lee died young, and was just being discovered yet again! Discover him at the links we'll be adding !
Nina Simone - what can I say? The very essence of sultry, worldly, soulful genius. That voice! Those proud lyrics and the queenly ways of her delivery, of the way she lived her life, of the example she created. Otherworldly and wise, like a goddess. She is missed.
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