I find my greatest contentment when on stage performing, producing an event, writing music and poetry, horseback riding, and closing business deals...
Anyone who I can be intellectually stimulated by and fill up on their creativity and let them induldge on mine.
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Since I am from the middle of America, I enjoy most musical genres; jazz(acid, contemporary, standard), R and B, hip-hop, rock country, blues- put it this way, my all time favorite vocalists are Diana Ross, Bonnie Raitt, Chaka Khan, Ella Fitzgerald, and Billy Holiday, but I love Jill Scott, anything MINT CONDITION, Earth,Wind and Fire, Brand New Heavies,
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MUSIQ, Incognito, Steely Dan, CHICAGO, JOURNEY, Maxwell, USHER, Kalis, Bob Marley and the Wailers, D'Angelo, Lauryn Hill, Floetry, Miles Davis, Dave Brubek, Nina Simone, Stevie Wonder, Michael Jackson, LUTHER, Average White Band, ZHANE, Donnie Hathaway, Prince, Digable Planets, Amel Larrieux, Tower of Power, SADE, MAROON 5, The Clark Sisters, Tye Tribbett and G.A., Vanessa Bell Armstrong, Fred Hammond, Mary Alessi, CeCe Winans, Kim Burrell, Donnie McClurkin, COMMISSIONED, Anita Baker, Erykah Badu, Brandy, Aretha Franklin, Gladys Knight, Beyonce', India Arie, MAYSA, Fantasia, Tweet, Mary J. Blige, and Corrine Bailey Rae, ETC., ETC.............
Though I rarely have the opportunity to watch movies, over the years I have come to love movie classics like: Meet me in St. Louis, Singing in the Rain, Stormy Weather, Carmen Jones, the Color Purple (ME AND YOU US NEVER PART), Love Jones(ALL TIME FAV), the Best Man, the Breaks(HILARIOUS) I love to laugh!!
Not big on television but I do like Deal or No Deal, Amazing Race, Seinfeld, the Cosby Show and South Park.(don't tell anyone I watch it though). I also like.........
Paradise by Toni Morrison- ANYTHING Toni Morrison is good, The Prayer of Jabez, Think and Grow Rich by Napoleon Hill -also ANYTHING Napoleon Hill is EXCELLENT, and The lady, Her Lover and Her Lord by T.D. Jakes.
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It may sound trite but there are two women who I admire who I believe are one in the same . One just happens to have BILLIONS more than the other but their work is parallel. My spirtually guided mother for raising me to be the well rounded, worldly but not corrupt, selfless but self aware, talented intellectual that I am.The second is Oprah Winfrey. Most people dislike her but she built her "self made" billion dollar enterprise by the sweat of her own brow, on the negitive energy not only from people who were passers by in her life but also from that within her family circle. She's not selfish- and she could be!