There is no American music without Black roots. From country-western, which draws upon banjo music from Africa, to rock 'n' roll—first electrified by a Black woman in 1938—every major American genre ...
There are only a handful of people alive today who participated in the formation of modern gospel music in Chicago during the 1930s and 1940s. Fewer still worked directly with the genre’s founding ...
Robert Townsend with Lyah Beth LeFlore after his one-man show ‘Living The Shuffle’ Saturday afternoon at The Kirkwood Performing Arts Center Rachel Powers with music star Brandy after she sang the ...