Did Sylvia Rhone give India.Arie bad marketing advice for her Testimony: Vol. 1, Life & Relationship album cover? Is Druski the main reason for the highest ratings of the BET Awards since 2019?Continue Reading
Marvin Gaye’s “Stubborn Kind Of Fellow” was a watershed moment in his career and artistry. In 1962, Gaye and Motown were trying to figure out his sound after the failure of his 1961 debut album of jazz and pop classics. Gaye loved the music of Nat King Cole, Ray Charles,Continue Reading
Diana Ross’s “The Boss” was the result of her long-standing collaboration with Nickolas Ashford and Valerie Simpson. The duo had worked with her since her 1970 solo debut, and “The Boss” served as the title track for her tenth solo album. Ashford and Simpson exclusively produced the projectContinue Reading
Teena Marie’s “Déjá Vu” is on her 1979 debut album, Wild and Peaceful. While Rick James, who discovered Marie, is credited with writing the song, it was her poem that he adapted into lyrics. The song about her having lived different lives on earth as rich, poor, young, old, and inContinue Reading