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Meshell Ndegeocello

I light up the sky...

About Me

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Welcome to the official MySpace for Meshell Ndegeocello! While this profile is not managed by Meshell herself, it can hopefully be a way to connect with other admirers, keep up to date on upcoming performances, and be a part of an online network of information. Please feel free to share your thoughts on her music and message. Click here for more info on the new album. No one's striving to be Miles Davis.
Everybody's striving to get paid.
And, you know, I want to be like Miles Davis.
You can find a few more videos here . "Music sends out a vibration and that is something I take to my heart. Now I see I spent so much time trying to question and critique the outside world and now I've been forced to look at myself. But there's a great Hendrix lyric: I used to live in a room full of mirrors, all I could see was me. I take my spirit and I smash all the mirrors now the whole world is here for me to see, now I'm searching for my love to be.
Broken glass was all in my brain, cats were screaming crying in my head. It used to fall out dreams and cut me in my bed, I say making love was strange in my bed...

I have been blessed to know and feel love both earthly and spiritual and I hope I am to become better with the responsibility of loving another. I have fallen short so often in my friendships, relationships and family. And while the world spins around and stars are born and die the oceans flow and the sun rises and sets now I'm clear about what it is I'm striving for.
And through love I hope to rise above the suffering that is a part of life and be more gracious to others and pray for forgiveness for the past deeds that have caused others suffering. And the music that I'm making now is just the love I've felt and the energy I'm surrounding myself with. Thoughts are the architecture of the mind. And I'm trying to fill my mind with tranquility so that I may emanate that vibration... inshallah I love and cherish the gift that the creator has given me."

~ Meshell Ndegeocello, September 2003

The photographs from 1988 listed here were taken by Thomas Sayers Ellis .

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 7/23/2006
Band Website: freemyheart.com
Band Members: THE BAND
Mark Kelley (bass)
Jason Lindner (keys)
Chris Bruce (guitar)
Charles Haynes (drums)

Have also created with: Bryan Adams, Geri Allen, J.D. Allen , Peck Allmond , Carleen Anderson , Raymond Angry , Steven Barber, Basement Jaxx , Fontella Bass , Yolande Bavan, Quentin Baxter, Poogie Bell , Eric Benét , Crusher Bennett, André Betts, Blackgold , Brian Blade, Ron Blake , Blind Boys Of Alabama , Oren Bloedow , DJ Beverly Bond , Dean Bowman , Doyle Bramhall II , Dee Dee Bridgewater, Chris Bruce, Don Byron , Michael David Cain, Terri Lyne Carrington, Alfred Carty, Allen Cato, Dennis Chambers , Neneh Cherry , China, Chocolate Genius , Mino Cinelu, Citizen Cope , Avishai Cohen , Steve Coleman , Oran Coltrane, Luis Conté, Sheryl Crow , Shannon Curfman , Gbatokai Dakinah, Marie Daulne, Chris "Daddy" Dave , N'Dea Davenport , Adam Deitch , Jack DeJohnette , DJeeBoolaii , DJ Premier , Ronny Drayton, Eryk Dyba , David Dyson , Fima Ephron , Melissa Etheridge , Neal Evans , Joseph Fain, Yossi Fine, David Fiuczynski , Daniel Freedman , David Gamson , Kenny Garrett , Matthew Garrison , Micah Gaugh , Nona Gaye , David Gilmore, Robert Glasper , Gilmar Gomes , Gov't Mule, Alex Grant, Terreon Gully , Guru , Didi Gutman, Lynden David Hall, Mike Hampton, Herbie Hancock , Roy Hargrove , Lalah Hathaway , Dana Hawkins , Charles Haynes , Don Henley, Joe Henry, Chrissie Hynde , Indigo Girls , Byron Jackson, Boney James , Daniel Jones, Keziah Jones , K'Alyn , Mark Kelley , Bobby Keys, Chaka Khan, Angelique Kidjo , Eric Krasno , Toshi Kubota, Talib Kweli , Abe Laboriel Jr., Jon Laine , Gene Lake , Jahi Sundance Lake , Oliver Lake , Lamb, Amel Larrieux , Nguyén Lé , Ledisi , Steve Lehman , Greg Leisz, Jimmy Jam & Terry Lewis, Tony Lewis, Jason Lindner , Los Hombres Calientes, Los Mocosos, Bobby Lyle , Madonna , Gregoire Maret , Jonathan Maron , Pedro Martinez, Harvey Mason, Stuart Matthewman , Bennie Maupin, Jojo Mayer , John Medeski, John Mellencamp , Pat Metheny , Frank McComb , Sarah McLachlan , Bryant McNeil, Jason Miles , Marcus Miller , Keb' Mo', Alfredo Mojica, Aka Moon, Alanis Morissette , Mos Def , Dahu Mumagi , Jesse Murphy, Mystik Journeymen, Michael Neal, Joan Osborne , Holly Palmer , Paris, Deantoni Parks , Rahsaan Patterson , Federico Gonzalez Pena , Billy Preston, James Preston, Jim Price, Prince , Queen Pen, Rahzel, Susheela Raman , Enrico Rava, Joshua Redman , Damion Reid, Tony Rich, Sean Rickman , Dan Rieser, Paul Riser, The Rolling Stones , Wallace Roney , Josh Roseman , Brandon Ross , Daniel Sadownick, Herve Sambe, Richie Sambora , David Sanborn , Oumou Sangare , Carlos Santana, Paul Schaefer, Tina Schlieske , Jacques Schwarz-Bart , Sabina Sciubba , Screaming Headless Torsos , Scritti Politti, Mark Seliger's Rusty Truck, Yayo Serka, Michael Severson , Muzz Skillings, Sy Smith , Soulive , Sting , Arif St. Michael , Biti Strauchn, Bill Summers, Yosvany Terry , Ahmir "Questlove" Thompson , Paul "Solid Brass" Thompson, Anthony Lennox Tidd, Lysette Titi , David Torn, Transdub Massiv , Eddie Van Halen, Voyceboxing, Narada Michael Walden, Reggie Washington , Wah Wah Watson, Jon Jon Webb , Max Weinberg, Kiggo Wellman, Wendy & Lisa, Supa Dave West , Caron Wheeler , Kebbi Williams, Vanessa Williams, Cassandra Wilson , Amy Winehouse , Bernard Wright , Brenden Wyant , Sam Yahel, Yerba Buena and Yoli .


Influences:

Tori Amos , Skunk Anansie, Fiona Apple , Bad Brains , James Brown , Cameo , Ron Carter , Eric Clapton, Ornette Coleman, Alice Coltrane, Ravi Coltrane , The Commodores, CCR, D'Angelo , Betty Davis, Miles Davis, The Doors, Earth Wind & Fire , Roberta Flack, Aretha Franklin, The Gap Band, Marvin Gaye, Larry Graham, Al Green , Donny Hathaway, Isaac Hayes, Jimi Hendrix, Rickie Lee Jones , Rahsaan Roland Kirk , Lenny Kravitz, Last Poets, Led Zeppelin, Level 42 , Living Colour, Bob Marley , Curtis Mayfield, Christian McBride , Charles Mingus , Joni Mitchell, Mutabaruka , Nirvana , No Doubt , Ohio Players, Parliament , Jaco Pastorius , Red Hot Chili Peppers , Minnie Riperton, Sade , Gil Scott-Heron, Tupac Shakur, Nina Simone , Steely Dan, Sly Stone, Barry White , Bill Withers, Stevie Wonder , Victor Wooten , Wu-Tang Clan and Josef Zawinul


Sounds Like:
The World Has Made Me The Man Of My Dreams (2007)

The Article 3 EP (2006)

Dance Of The Infidel (2005)
Original artwork

Dance Of The Infidel (2005)

Comfort Woman (2003)

Cookie: The Anthropological Mixtape (2002)

Bitter (1999)

Peace Beyond Passion (1996)

Plantation Lullabies (1993)
Record Label: Kuzcek Records
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

17 years old

"Boyfriend" and "Soul Record" by Jake Galvin....
Posted by Meshell Ndegeocello on Mon, 10 Mar 2008 03:37:00 PST

Two new interviews

From today's issue of The News & Observer:It is customary to open one's album with a song that's inviting enough to make people want to keep listening. But Meshell Ndegeocello has never been much ...
Posted by Meshell Ndegeocello on Fri, 07 Mar 2008 11:50:00 PST

Live with Pat

Pat Metheny has previously been mentioned here. Click the video below to see him performing live with the band at the Montreal Jazz Festival on July 6, 2005.P.S. Pat is on the new album... ...
Posted by Meshell Ndegeocello on Sat, 19 Jan 2008 02:52:00 PST

Bass transcriptions

"Here's some bass transcriptions. Remember though, it's all about feel (specifically rhythmic feel),especially with Meshell's stuff, and feel is something you can't notate on paper." -- JustinThank yo...
Posted by Meshell Ndegeocello on Sun, 06 Jan 2008 08:44:00 PST

Be there or be square

Since not everyone can make it to Brooklyn for the show, please feel free to record if you are attending. Both audio and video are welcome. Don't worry, unlike other artists that will go unnamed, ther...
Posted by Meshell Ndegeocello on Mon, 24 Dec 2007 09:59:00 PST

Thoughts on TWHMMTMOMD

(Reviewed by Alexis Pauline Gumbs for Coup Magazine)If Meshell Ndegeocello's career was a t-shirt it would be a black shirt with reflective silver letters spelling "Love is Political". But luckily for...
Posted by Meshell Ndegeocello on Sun, 23 Dec 2007 12:32:00 PST

Searching For A Method

Some of you may have noticed there's quite a bit of unreleased material on the profile page. Thoughts?
Posted by Meshell Ndegeocello on Mon, 10 Dec 2007 02:40:00 PST

Until YouTube receives the Purple cease & desist...

(Deantoni Parks on drums, Chris Bruce on bass and Oren Bloedow on guitar.)Enjoy while u can......
Posted by Meshell Ndegeocello on Sat, 01 Dec 2007 06:06:00 PST

The making of Aja

You know a record is a classic when it sounds as good today as it did when it was released 30 years ago.Just look at the list of talented artists that contributed to the making of "Aja": Wal...
Posted by Meshell Ndegeocello on Fri, 30 Nov 2007 09:25:00 PST

What a band

Recorded at the Santa Barbara County Bowl in September 1979 during Joni's "Mingus" tour. Joni's band lineup at the time included Jaco Pastorius (bass), Pat Metheny (lead guitar), Lyle Mays (...
Posted by Meshell Ndegeocello on Wed, 28 Nov 2007 07:16:00 PST