Watch Andra Day sing Minne Riperton’s “Back Down Memory Lane” during the Memoriam part of the NAACP Image Awards. Harry Belafonte, Amp Fiddler and Maurice Hines are a few of the people honored in the segment. Queen Latifah hosted the 55th NAACP Image Awards that aired on BET Saturday night.Continue Reading
Minnie Riperton’s “Baby, This Love I Have” was a collaborative writing effort with her husband Richard Rudolph and Leon Ware. The song opened her 1975 third studio album Adventures In Paradise. Riperton’s pure vocals and emotion epitomized a woman in love. She sang with a tasteful sensuality underscored by aContinue Reading
Minnie Riperton wrote “Inside My Love” with Leon Ware and her husband Richard Rudolph. The soul-deep intimacy that Riperton was singing about was always interpreted as lust because of her earthy delivery. But in the liner notes from the posthumous Petals:The Minnie Riperton Collection Rudolph explains the emotional intentions ofContinue Reading
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