GOD.Music in all godly facets and styles. Songwriting, Singing, Poetry, Sports: BASKETBALL!!!!, Kickboxing, Jogging, Swimming, Movies, DVDs, Chillin in the NYC, Food shopping at Whole Foods, hmmm makes me feel like in paradise...i loooove that soy cream cheese, yummie!!!
Yolanda Adams, Kirk Franklin, Maxwell, KEM, John Legend,...hmm, who else,...well the rest of the folks already passed away....other than that: Songwriters, Singers, Producers, Musicians, Composers, Revolutionists4Christ and of courseTHE "REINCARNATION" OF THE ONE AND ONLY CURTIS "SUPERFLY" MAYFIELD!!!!!!!!!! If anyone out there can meet his standards can you pleeeeease hit me back and help me work on a banging remake of "NO THING ON ME"! It's bout time that this song's gonna get airplay again! Right? Thought so! Smile....All yall haters and HYPOCRITES...STAY AWAY!
Gospel, Soul, R&B, Funk, Folk, Smoth Jazz, Blues Rock! Sincere Artists: Phyllis Hyman, Pharoah Sanders, Curtis Mayfield, Donnie Hathaway, Marvin Gaye, Aretha Franklin, Patti LaBelle, Art Pepper, Wes Montgomery, Charlie Parker, Maxwell, John Legend, KEM, Kanye, Alicia Keys, Lauryn Hill, Tonex, Yolanda Adams, Kirk Franklin, Ray Charles, Teddy Pendergrass, Stevie Wonder, James Brown, Barry White, Miles Davis, Nina Simone, Prince, Tracy Chapman, Sade, Eric Clapton, Luther Vandross,Bob Dylan, Joan Baez, etc .........GONE BUT NOT FORGOTTEN (R.I.P)Aaliyah 1971-2001 Plane crash Barbara Acklin 2/28/43 - 11/27/98 Pneumonia. LaVern Baker 11/11/29 - 3/11/97 Diabetes Hank Ballard 11/18/36 - 3/2/03 Throat cancer Brook Benton 9/19/31 - 4/9/88 Complications from spinal meningitis Ray Charles 9/23/30 - 6/10/04 Liver disease Dee Clark 11/7/38 - 12/7/90 Heart attack Arthur Conley 4/1/46 - 11/17/03 Intestinal cancerSam Cooke 1/22/31 - 12/1/64 Gunshot wound in by female motel manager under mysterious circumstances Tyrone Davis 5/4/38 - 2/9/05 Stroke Betty Everett 11/23/39 -8/19/01 Marvin Gaye 4/2/39 - 4/1/84 Fatally shot by his father after a quarrel in Los AngelesDonny Hathaway 10/1/45 - 1/13/79 Committed suicide jumping from 15th floor of New York City's Essex House Jimi Hendrix 1942 - 1970 Drug overdose Ivory Joe Hunter 10/10/14 - 11/8/74 Lung cancer Phyllis Hyman 7/6/51 - 7/1/95 Committed suicideRick James 2/1/48 - 8/6/04 Natural causesMarv Johnson 10/15/38 - 5/16/93 Died after collapsing in a concert in South Carolina Joe Jones 8/12/26 - 12/11/05 Complications of heart surgery Louis Jordan 7/8/08 - 2/4/75 Heart attackErnie K-Doe 2/22/36 - 7/5/01 Died after three days in a coma Eddie Kendricks 12/17/39 - 10/5/92 Lung cancer King Curtis 2/7/34 - 8/13/71 Stabbed to death in New York City Major Lance 4/4/42 - 9/3/94 Heart disease Little Eva 6/29/45 - 4/10/03 Cancer Van McCoy 1/6/44 - 7/6/79 Heart attack Clyde McPhatter 11/15/32 - 6/13/72Heart attack Curtis Mayfield 6/3/42 - 12/26/99 Complications from trauma, quadriplegicNotorious B.I.G. 1972-1997 Murdered Wilson Pickett 3/18/41 - 1/19/06 Heart attack Billy Preston 9/9/46 - 6/6/06 Heart infection ...... Lou Rawls 12/1/35 - 1/6/06 Cancer Otis Redding 9/9/41 - 12/10/67 Plane crash .. Minnie Riperton 11/8/47 - 7/12/79 Cancer David Ruffin 1/18/41 - 6/1/91Drug overdose O.C. Smith 6/21/36 - 11/23/01 Edwin Starr 1/21/42 - 4/2/03 Billy Stewart 3/24/37 - 1/17/70 Auto accident 2Pac 6/16/71 - 9/13/96 Gunned down in Las Vegas and died five days later Johnnie Taylor 5/5/38 - 5/31/00 Heart attack Tammi Terrell 1/24/46 - 3/16/70 Brain tumor Joe Tex 8/8/33 - 8/13/82 Heart attack Doris Troy 1/6/37 - 2/16/04 Emphysema Luther Vandross 4/20/51 - 07/1/05 StrokeDinah Washington 8/29/24 - 12/14/63 Overdose Mary Wells 5/13/43 - 7/26/92 Throat cancer Barry White 9/12/44 - 7/4/03 Kidney failure Jackie Wilson 6/9/34 - 1/21/84 Stroke
The passion of the Christ, End of the Spear, Love & Basketball, RAY, Shaft, Superfly, He got game, Hurricane
I know how lame that is, but I am hooked on German ARD soap operas. Well,...at least I am honest. Also, some scenes of Chappelle's Show
The Holy Bible, He's been faithful by Carol Cymbala (BK TAB), Six Steps to Songwriting Success by Jason Blume, Higher Ground, everything on music theory, and of course my essential "Songwriter's Rhyming Dictionary"! (Man, what would I be without you....smile!)
JESUS CHRIST
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