Member Since: 3/22/2006
Band Members: me and a rotating plethora of some talented cats (but no real ’band’ per se)!!! At some point or another I’ve worked under or with ..Clifton Brockington, Allyn Johnson, Alejandro Lucini, Tita Negra, Vince Evans, Wayne Wilentz, Leonardo Lucini, Willi Vasquez, Quincy Phillips, Kris Funn, "Smokin" Joe Brotherton, Sam Prather, Eric Wheeler, Franky ’the genius’ Gaskins, Bill Heid, Tosin "Teegroove" Aribisola, Hope Udobi, Benito Gonzalez, Herman Burney, Deandre Shaifer, Mark Foster, Nat Jolly, Michael Bowie, Pete Muldoon. Most recently I was graced w/ the op to work w/ Lonnie Plaxico, Toru Dodo, Sharp Radway, Ben Williams, Reggie Quinerly, Brandon Ross, Khalil Kwame Bell, Mongezi Nkata. The music lives on...*********
Here are 2 songs performed recently in DC at KuKu’s album release gathering...enjoy ;-)
Influences: God and his everlasting love, my honorable papa (may he rest in peace) and his Manjac "lullabyes", my mother and her precious hymns, Sarah Vaughn, Cesaria Evora, Miriam Makeba, Leontine Price, Sade, Zap Mama, Nina Simone, I-three, Carmen McRae, Nancy Wilson, Lauryn Hill, Midnite, Morgan Heritage, Roberta Flack, Ottis Redding, Robert Nesta Marley, Luciano, Harry Belafonte, Salief Keita, Simply Red, Paul Simon, Citizen Cope, Esthero, Eva Cassidy, Jill Scott, Caetano Veloso, Bebel Gilberto, Jobim, Mendes Brothers, Augosto Cedo, Oliver Mtukudzi, Johnny Clegg, Jah Cure, Beres Hammond, Y'sour Ndour, Janis Joplin, Anthony Hamilton, Gigi, I Wayne, Bill Withers, Barbara Striesand, Portishead, Africando, Celia Cruz .....and the list goes on
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Sounds Like: LOVE AND HAPPINESS....