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3 Struggles Only Women In Music Have To Go Through - Simi
Simi speaks out. It is no surprise to anybody that the human experience is different for every single person on this earth. If you're born a man, the way you navigate life will be very different from if you're born a woman. This is no secret.
By Jide Okonjo5 years ago in Beat
Lil Nas X Does Not Need Your Approval
This video is ridiculous in the best way. I remember when Lil Nas X first became a household name due to his incredible cowboy aesthetic catchy song, Old Town Road. He was fresh, he was strange, and most of all he was unafraid to put himself out there for our entertainment.
By yanina maysonet5 years ago in Beat
Versatile Actor, Recording Artist, and Filmmaker Amir Royale Releases New Single “Paradox”
From Amir Royale "Paradox" is about overcoming one's insecurities and becoming free of your personal demons. You are meant to soar higher than the brightest star. You are meant to outlive the wisest turtle. Thus, truthfully, the only thing really stopping you from doing that -- is YOURSELF. Why is it so hard for us to stay sane? Why does it take us so long to recover from heartbreak? Why are we so fragile? Why am I STILL not enough? Where "People Say" teeters the line of dangerously falling prey to the naysayers and our dark thoughts -- I wanted "Paradox" to be the exact OPPOSITE of that. My hope is that it helps others find solace in the love they've always secretly had for themselves. Why? Because just writing this all down helped me. Yet for some odd reason, it still doesn’t even feel like I wrote it all for myself... </3
By StageScene Magazine5 years ago in Beat
Dear Tina Turner, toughest woman I never met!
Born November 26th, 1939 in Nutbush, Tennessee, her parents, Floyd and Zelma Bullock, were sharecroppers. After they separated in the early 1950s, Turner went to stay with her maternal grandmother in Nutbush, Tennessee. At age 16 she moved to St. Louis, Missouri, where she eventually began her music career. The first band she ever saw on television was Ike Turner, so she joined his band and went thru 25 years of hell, then he sued her for all the rights to her music, and she gave it all to him! all except for his name...that she kept because she built her career around that name. She said "I'm self-made. I always wanted to make myself a better person, because I was not educated. But that was my dream - to have class". she also stated in an interview "I regret not having had more time with my kids when they were growing up". and she was asked about love, she said this: "I want a man without shame" also she said "I will receive it when I have earned it"! I just watched that on television. Ike Turner took everything he could take...but he never took her spirit or her name! After Ike, she came alive! Once she realized how sick he was, she started to let go of her hatred for him, even when he was beating and raping her. She realized some 53 years later, that holding onto all that hate, made her miserable and took away all of her serenity. She met, fell in love with and married her producer Edwin Bach in Zurich Switzerland in 2013, has been there ever since. She said she loves it there and considers it home because the people are so nice and friendly and the home and it's surroundings are breathtaking.
By C. M. Sears5 years ago in Beat
THE NIGHT I MET ROY ORBISON
It was a hot summer day, the kind of heat that would blister your backside if you were lying outside trying to snatch a tan au naturel. As I struck a match and waited for a flame to light my second joint of the day, the telephone rang. Sucking back a toke, I held my breath and slowly let it out. As a cloud of smoke filled my small art studio, I listened to the phone continually ringing. Wiping a film of sweat off my brow, I had another hit. Then, deciding it might be a potential customer, as soon as I exhaled, I answered the phone.
By Len Sherman5 years ago in Beat
Nothin's Gonna Come My Way: Otis Redding's Posthumous Hit
Who remembers the day that Otis Redding died? It happened on December 10, 1967, at 3:28 pm, a rainy, foggy afternoon. Ben Cauley, the lead vocalist of the soul-and-R&B group known as the Bar-Kays, suddenly woke up. He felt a strange sensation, almost as if he was spinning through the air. He was on a plane, a Beechcraft H18 owned by Redding. He and his bandmates were traveling with Redding to Madison, Wisconsin to perform as his backup. Cauley looked over at Phalon Jones, the band's tenor saxophonist, and heard him exclaiming at something outside the plane window. Cauley quickly took off his seatbelt -- and suddenly, impact. The plane hit the icy waters of Lake Monona, breaking apart on contact. Cauley held onto his seat cushion for dear life. He heard Ronnie Caldwell, another bandmate, calling for help. By the time he got to Caldwell, the organist had already sunk below the surface. He heard Carl Cunningham, the band's drummer, yelling in the distance, but he was too far away. Already unable to swim well, Cauley had no choice but to swim to shore, using his seat as a flotation device. He was the sole survivor of the crash.
By Jamie Lammers5 years ago in Beat
Nobel Prize
How could someone who wrote popular music win such a prestigious award as a Nobel Prize? The answer is that musical lyrics are a type of literature, which is one of the six Nobel Prize categories - the others being chemistry, peace, physics, physiology/medicine, and economics, the latter of which was added in 1968.
By Julie Lacksonen5 years ago in Beat
R. Kelly: Fallen King of R&B Geniuses Do Dumb *hit Too
When you talk about a musical genius R.Kelly is at the very top of any list new or old. No one could match his speed when it came to recording hit records and I say recording because he was functionally illiterate and could not read or write without help. That fact only adds to legend of his genius in the artistry of song. Kelly could not control his foolish urge for young girls when he could have had just about any adult woman of which he did but he enjoyed young girls more because in his mind they were more pure. His stupid fantasy of being with young girls has possibly put an end to the most brilliant rhythm and blues soul music the planet has ever known or ever will hear again. He recorded and had music written for the most prestigious and powerful musical icons the in world. Whitney Houston and Micheal Jackson are two artists that got instant hits from him. It was like R.Kelly was having outer body experience and we all got to witness true greatness every time he touched a microphone. His kind will never be found again and he has disgraced and sorely offended his fans and parents of young girls across the globe. He is the embodiment and living evidence that geniuses do dumb *hit too.
By Curtis Greene5 years ago in Beat
Why I Sometimes Regret Being Famous - Simi
Simi gets honest about fame. Fame is very alluring to all of us who don't have it and look at it from the outside looking in. From the glitz and glam of red carpet to fashion spreads, music videos, television shows, media attention, fan love, it looks very alluring. Many people want to be famous. In fact, statistics show that these days, when asked, a lot more younger people said that they want to be famous when they grow up than younger people from past years.
By Jide Okonjo5 years ago in Beat
