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Suraiye

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About Me

About me, eh? Well, I am... changing. One day I am this, one day I am that, all in an effort to get to; well... me. I love making music: singing and writing being my forte.I am a classicaly trained singer who likes to learn, likes to be able to listen, & likes life. I LOVE truth, though. Because Love is truth and so is God.Ok, enough with all the "deep" stuff. I like to shop, eat sleep,hang out... the usual. I am also currently recording a demo project so be sure to let me know what you think about the single on my profile!*According to this personality quiz, I am...* You are both very knowledgeable and creative. You tend to be full of new ideas and potential - big potential. Ideas like yours could change the world, if you build them. As long as you don't stop working on your dreams, you'll get there.*Any yet another...* Your Love Style is Agape: You are a caring, kind, and selfless partner. Unsurprisingly, your love style is the most rare. You are willing to sacrifice your world for your sweetie. Except it doesn't really feel like sacrifice to you. For you, nothing feels better than giving to the one you love. repeat-y center;background-color:000000;}

My Interests

Singing, Working on my Album, Writing, Learning, Music, Different Cultures, The Dynamics of the African Diaspora, Philosophy, Wikipedia, and um... Singing.

I'd like to meet:

I'd like to meet my Maker. He must be one cooool dude.View All Friends | View Blog | Add Comment

. Yours truly gettin' her classical singin on... That New Brandy I cant stop listening to

Music:

Minez, Lizz Wright, Amel Larrieux, Bob Marley, Ella Fitagerald, Sarah Vaughan, Billie Holiday, Quire of Voices, Alice Smith, Jill Scott, Floetry, John Legend, India Irie, Daft Punk, Imogen Heap, Pat Methany Group, Corrine Bailey Ray, Robin Thicke, Tweet, Lauryn Hill, African Ameican Folk Music, Sade, Lupe Fiasco, Common, Kanye, Jigga, Reggae, Beyonce', Most Gospel I guess, Some R&B, Some Hip-Hop, The Classics (Including Classical music, Classic soul, classic jazz and swing, whatever has been deemed by time a classic...cuz theres usually a good reason 4 it.), Some Neo-soul, Jazz (Esp. Brazilian Jazz aka Samba or any Latin Jazz and that verve and/or jazz remix stuff infused with electronica/club/dance/techno), some club, house, dance and electronica and some Musical Theatre.

Movies:

The Lakehouse, Lady in the Water, The Secret, 9/11 Mysteries(.com for more info) part 1, GHOST DAD!!! w/ bill cosby, Dreamgirls, Idlewild (that jaunt is crazy), Moulin Rouge, The Passion of the Christ, Lacawana Blues, Selma Lord Selma, Crooklyn, The Manchurian Candidate, Coming to America, Deliver us from Eva, Clueless... and Uptown Girls...There, I admited it.lol (It has a really good theme, tho.)

Television:

anything HGTV!, anything Black Family Channel (RIP) & TV One, The Colbert Report, The Daily Show, CNN in the evening not the morning, and ROOTS.

Books:

The Bible (some great reference material in there), The Apocrypha, The Purpose Driven Life, Up From Slavery, Malcom X, The Miseducation of the Negro, The Black Diaspora, The Crisis in Black & Black, Hair Story, & I Kissed Dating Goodbye, Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Books Got Wrong, The White Architects of Black Education, A Century of Negro Migration, The Face of Our Past, Yesterday I Cried, They Came Before Columbus

Heroes:

aka: WHO INSPIRES ME.... Booker T. Washington, Nina Simone, Langston Hughes, Martin Luther King, Jr., Rosa Parks, Bessie Smith, El Hajj Malik El-Shabazz (Malcolm X), Mahatma Ghandi, Jesus (aka Yeshua), Nelson Mandela, Stokely Charmicheal, Mumia, Harriet Tubman, Miles Davis, Beyonce, R.A.W., and most importantly, My Momma.(& no I am not a Black Panther. However I am a product/enthusiast of the Civil Rights Movement. Just recognizing those who made it possible, yo.