[Entertainment News\Music]
Solange on Inspiration “Behind When I Get Home”: “I wanted to get to the point to where I allowed the supernatural, the Spirit, or whatever it was, to stare at it face to face, and not let it make me afraid. A lot of the album is confronting that very spirit. I feel really good at the end of this record because of all that I had to go through to complete it. That I was finally able to get to that place, to where that shit doesn’t scare me anymore. I can invite it in.”
Photo: Maggie Faircloth\Melissa Nyarko
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LEHMAN COLLEGE WILL HOST 11TH ANNUAL JOHNNY PACHECO LATIN MUSIC AND JAZZ FESTIVAL
[Entertainment News\Johnny Pacheco Latin Music and Jazz Festival]
Allan Molnar music lecturer at Lehman College: “Johnny Pacheco and this year’s special guest, Eganam Segbefia, have lived and worked in the Bronx, making it fitting for Lehman to host this festival. We are proud to be part of the rich cultural life here in the Bronx, while also supporting music education in the Bronx and beyond.”
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MIDNITE REGGAE BAND CO-FOUNDER VAUGHN “AKAE BEKA” BENJAMIN HAS PASSED AWAY AT 50
[Entertainment News\Reggae]
Vaughn Benjamin has made over 55 albums—likely much more if all of his collaborative efforts are counted. A look at his discography online will attest to this. It is worthy of noting that the Midnight Raver music website lists the 2000 “Jubilees of Zion” as the best album of the new millennium and the 2014 “Beauty for Ashes” as the third best album of the new millennium. Since the reformation of the group as Akae Beka, the Midnight Raver website referred to the group as “the most revered, influential and prolific reggae act in two decades.”
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ARRESTED DEVELOPMENT’S “SPEECH” WILL SHOW HIS FILM “16 BARS” IN NYC ABOUT WORKING WITH VIRGINIA INMATES
[Incarceration News\Music Documentary]
16 Bars is a feature-length music documentary that offers a rare glimpse at the human stories — and songs — that are locked away in our nation’s jails and prisons. The film follows a unique rehabilitation effort in a Virginia jail that invites inmates to write and record original music.
Photo: Linda Altman\16 Bars Flyer
GRAMMY-NOMINATED VOCALIST MUMU FRESH WILL PERFORM AT HARLEM STAGE ON OCTOBER 18TH AND 19TH
[Entertainment\Harlem Stage
Monique Martin: “This season at Harlem Stage, we are reflecting on the past while looking towards the future. Our performances celebrate the legacy of the Harlem Renaissance, while discovering pathways to create a better future. Afrofuturism is the ticket to reimagining Black identity, and performances this season will examine what exactly that looks, sounds and feels like.”
Photo: Tony Powell
GRAMMY AWARD-WINNING SINGER SOLANGE IS FEATURED ON SEPTEMBER MAGAZINE COVER OF L’OFFICIELUSA
[Entertainment News\Music]
Solange on her album, When I Get Home: “I wanted to create a bit more of a world with ‘When I Get Home.’ A mecca that spoke to an environment and an expression. A place that you could go sonically and visually and digitally and feel immersed in as a project about what exactly the process of home is and the feelings behind it…This album was purely about feeling.”
Photo: Instagram screenshot
GRAMMY WINNING SINGER SOLANGE KNOWLES’ ORCHESTRAL PERFORMANCE PIECE “WITNESS!” WAS RECENTLY PRESENTED IN GERMANY
[Entertainment\Music]
Grammy Award-winning singer Solange Knowles will be presenting “Witness,” an original performance–accompanied by a 38 piece orchestra–at the Elbphilharmonie concert hall in Hamburg, Germany.
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BALLET HISPANICO CELEBRATES HISPANIC HERITAGE MONTH WITH 3RD ANNUAL A LA CALLE BLOCK PARTY
[Hispanic Heritage Month]
Eduardo Vilaro, Artistic Director & CEO of Ballet Hispánico: “We celebrate our Latinidad on a daily basis, but it is vital that we come together during this month to celebrate the strength of our voices and the impact of our cultural and artistic contributions on our nation.”
AWARD-WINNING SOUL SINGER SUCH WILL PERFORM IN NEW YORK CITY NEXT WEEK
[Entertainment]
Actress and Singer Such: “I’ve been on this road to discovering who I am as a Black woman and becoming someone who is a little more comfortable in her skin. This album is about embracing our beauty as Black people, being fully confident in our sensuality as Black women, and no longer struggling to find comfort in our own skin.”
Photo: Album Cover\Wide Nose, Full Lips