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Tag Archives: Jazz
Monday Late Evening Extras
Hugh Ramopolo Masekela (born April 4, 1939) is a South African trumpeter, flugelhornist, cornetist, composer, and singer. Masekela was born in Kwa-Guqa Township, Witbank, South Africa. He began singing and playing piano as a child. At age 14, after seeing … Continue reading
Posted in Current Events, Music, Open Thread, Politics
Tagged 2002 BBC Radio Jazz Awards, 2007 African Music Legend award, 3 Chics Politico, African Jazz Revue, Afrobeat, Flugelhorn, Grazing In The Grass, Hugh Ramopolo Masekela, International Award of the Year, Jazz, Miriam Makeba, South Africa, Trombone and Cornet, Trumpet, Witbank South Africa
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Thursday Late Evening Extras
Erica Abi Wright (born February 26, 1971),[1] better known by her stage name Erykah Badu (pronounced /ˈɛrɨkə bɑːˈduː/), is an American recording artist, record producer and actress. Her work includes elements from R&B, hip hop and jazz.[1] She is best known … Continue reading
Posted in Current Events, Music, Open Thread, Politics
Tagged 3 Chics Politico, Call Tyrone, Dallas Texas, Erica Abi Wright, Erykah Badu, First Lady of Neo-Soul, Funk, headwraps, Hip-Hop, Jazz, Loretta Brown, Queen of Neo-Soul, R&B, Soul, Soulquarians
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Saturday Open Thread
Lizz Wright (born January 22, 1980) is an American jazz/R&B singer and composer. Wright was born in the small town of Hahira in the US state of Georgia; one of three children and the daughter of a minister and the … Continue reading
Posted in Current Events, Music, Open Thread, Politics
Tagged 3 Chics Politico, Blues, composer, Gospel, Hahira Georgia, In the Spirit, Jazz, Lizz Wright, National Choral Award, Old Man, R&B, Singer, Soul
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Friday Open Thread
Brick is a former American band that created a successful merger of funk and jazz in the 1970s. Their most popular single was “Dazz“, (#3 U.S. Pop, #1 U.S. R&B, #36 UK Singles Chart[1]) which was released in 1976. Brick … Continue reading
Posted in Current Events, Music, Open Thread, Politics
Tagged 3 Chics Politico, Brick, Disco, disco-jazz, Funk, Jazz, Push Push, R&B
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Tuesday Late Evening Extras
Prince (born Prince Rogers Nelson, June 7, 1958) is a singer, songwriter, musician, and actor. He has been known under the unpronounceable symbol , which he used between 1993 and 2000. During that period he was frequently referred to in … Continue reading
Posted in Current Events, Music, Open Thread, Politics
Tagged 100 Greatest Artists of All Time, Academy Award, actor, and hip hop, arranger, bass guitar, Blues, Carmen Electra, clavinet, composer, Disco, drums, folk, Funk, Golden Globe Award, Grammy Awards Winner, Guitar, harmonica, Jazz, keyboards, Lets Go Crazy, Minneapolis sound, Morris Day, multi-instrumentalist, musician, New Wave, percussion, Piano, Pop rock, Prince, psychedelia, Purple, R&B, Rap, Record producer, Rock, Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, saxophone, Sheila E, Smooth Jazz, Songwriter, Superbowl 2007 Half-Time Show, synthesizer, TAFKAP, The Artist, The Artist Formerly Known as Prince, The Revolution, The Time, Tuesday Late Evening Extras, Vanity, Vocals
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Saturday Open Thread
Miriam Makeba (4 March 1932 – 10 November 2008), nicknamed Mama Africa, was a Grammy Award winning South African singer and civil rights activist. In the 1960s she was the first artist from Africa to popularize African music in the … Continue reading
Serendipity SOUL | Monday Open Thread | Phyllis Hyman Week
Happy MUN-dane, Everybody! This week 3 Chics is featuring the incomparable songstress Ms. Phyllis Hyman. Enjoy. Wiki: Phyllis Linda Hyman (July 6, 1949 – June 30, 1995) was an American soul singer and actress. Phyllis Hyman was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and … Continue reading
Posted in Current Events, Inspiration, Love, Media, Music, Open Thread, Politics, Tribute
Tagged 3 Chics Politico, Jazz, Phyllis Hyman, Somewhere In My Lifetime, Soul
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Friday Open Thread
Patrice Rushen (born Patrice Louise Rushen, September 30, 1954, Los Angeles, California)[1] is a Grammy Award-winning African American R&B and jazz vocalist, composer and pianist. Rushen is the elder of two daughters born to the late Allen Rushen and the … Continue reading
Posted in Current Events, Music, Open Thread, Politics
Tagged 3Chics Politico, American Achievement Awards, child prodigy, clarinet, composer, educator, flute, Forget Me Nots, Jazz, jazz fusion, jazz-funk, keyboardist, music director, musician, NAACP Image Awards, Patrice Rushen, Patrice Rushen: The Value of Music Education, percussion, Piano, Pop, post-disco, R&B, Record producer, Soul, urban, Vocals
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Sunday Open Thread
Rosetta Tharpe (March 20, 1915 – October 9, 1973) was a pioneering gospel singer, songwriter and recording artist who attained great popularity in the 1930s and 1940s with a unique mixture of spiritual lyrics and early rock and roll accompaniment. … Continue reading
Posted in Christianity, Current Events, Gospel, Honor, Inspiration, Love, Music, Open Thread, Politics, Praise, Religion, Spirituality, Tribute, Worship
Tagged 3 Chics Politico, Gospel, Guitarist, Jazz, Original Soul Sister, pioneering gospel singer, Pop, Precious Memories, Sister Rosetta Tharpe
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Wednesday Open Thread
George Benson (born March 22, 1943)[1] is a multi- Grammy Award winning American musician, whose production career began at the age of twenty-one as a jazz guitarist. He is also known as a pop, R&B, and scat singer. This one-time … Continue reading
Posted in Current Events, Music, Open Thread, Politics
Tagged 3 Chics Politico, archtop guitar, Funk, George Benson, Grammy Award, Guitar, Jazz, jazz guitarist, musician, On Broadway, R&B, scat singer, Songwriter, Soul, Vocals
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