Member Since: 9/8/2006
Band Website: www.buttersoulfly.com
Band Members: Tanesha C. is ButterSoulFlyA NECESSARY NOTE TO THE BUSINESS MINDED:
If you are reading this, that means, you are most likely interested in business or an entrepreneur. I am an entrepreneur as well. Through my corporation, ButterSoulFly LLC, I distribute creative goods such as my cds, chapbooks etc. through various channels. THIS INCLUDES MY PHOTOGRAPHS. If you would like to use any of the photographs of and/or related to me posted on this page or otherwise taken at ..., PLEASE GO THROUGH THE PROPER CHANNELS. You can do so VIA EMAIL at [email protected],YOU BELIEVE IN ANY WAY, THIS APPLYS TO YOU or YOU HAVE USED A PHOTOGRAPH OF ME to promote YOUR company, event, organization....through ANY MEDIUM WHICH MAY INCLUDE WEB,PRINT, ETC....you get the picture.....PLEASE REMOVE IT from your circulation IMMEDIATELY. If you believe I have granted permission of any kind to you TO USE MY PHOTO,we may have a simple misunderstanding. If so, or any part of this statement is in anyway unclear, or you have any QUESTIONS REGARDING THIS STATEMENT OF POLICY & would like to speak with someone please contact [email protected] you for your continued support.
In mutual respect,Tanesha C. Blackmon a.k.a. ButterSoulFly
Influences: My family, love, loss and struggle affect my work a great deal. I'm also influenced by practicing other forms of art. Al Jarreau, Nina Simone, Isaac Hayes, Karen Clark-Sheard, Oprah Winfrey,CeCe Winans, PBS, feel good places like the Blackstar Community Bookstore, Blackstar collectively (Blackstar equals Mos Def and Talib Kweli), Darryl Coley (sp) of Oakland, CA, Shirley Ceasar, Sade, Blackstar individually ("Brown Skin lady" on repeat), Lauryn Hill, live music, gentlemen, improvisation, friends and a host of writers, musicians, poets and personalities move me.More influences include:
Natural and/or beautiful things, Spike Lee, Michael Dyson, Cornel West, laughter,the seasons, Detroit, the new Keith Murray single(welcome back poet) man- he is and always was sooooooooo talented,water, window seats, hard working folk, autobiographies, did I say PBS, Toni Morrison, soprano and bass (expressed through vocals or instrumentation), gerber daisies and witnessing all types of various displays of excellence.I've got more lol....Dave Hollister, Geno Young,Yolanda Johnson,my awesome and beautiful sister Professor Blackmon with her Ph.D having self, the feeling L.L. Cool J songs give me,anyone who has followed their dreams in earnest, Spike Lee, Walter Mosely, did I say Oprah Winfrey? I hope she likes the Purple Poem, the Clark Sisters, Fred Hammond, baristas, clean smiles and honest eyes, really good food, Dr. Traci Evadne Currie Please check out her awesome CD Sojourn Thy Truth (you WILL NOT regret it)And more...fashion, Black Thought and Quest Love of the Roots for all they do, write and are, Lizz Wright, the Roots as a collective, Norah Jones, LaShawn Pace- Coleman, Jill Scott, India.Arie,Erykah Badu,Tracy Chapman,and every sister who helped break down the barriers and usher in the deserved admiration of women,Phylicia Rashad, Debbie Allen, keyboards, production equipment, original producers, gratitude, being outside when its not tooo hot but not too cold- just perfect lol, and that's all folks....In the words of the man who birthed my distant cousin, Mars Blackmon, Do the Right Thing!
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Record Label: ButterSoulFly Music, an independently owned corp.
Type of Label: Indie