Acclaimed singer/songwriter Laura Love is known for her "folk-funk" style of music. In this, her writing debut, she focuses her talents on a poignant memoir of growing up in an extremely dysfunctional family in racially...
African American singers
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Author:Love, LauraSummary: -
Author:Freedman, RussellSummary:In the 1930s, black singer Marian Anderson was not allowed to perform at Constitution Hall. But with help from Eleanor Roosevelt, Anderson staged an amazing concert at the Lincoln Memorial and became an activist for civil rights.
- Author:Mason, FeliciaSummary:
For eighteen years Roger McKenzie has led a gospel singing group, The Triumphant Voices of Praise. But The Voices have failed to win commercial or critical success. When Roger's leadership is questioned, personal problems threaten...
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Author:Lee, Maureen D.Summary:Matilda Sissieretta Joyner Jones, whose nickname the "Black Patti" likened her to the well-known Spanish-born opera star Adelina Patti, was a distinguished African American soprano during the late 19th and early 20th centuries....
- Author:Doig, IvanSummary:
Set during the 1920s, this novel finds Susan Duff, the young songbird from Doig's Dancing at the Rascal Fair, now a middle-aged singing coach living in Helena. When her old flame Wes Williamson asks her to mentor his black...
- Author:Jackson, SheneskaSummary:
The story of Jazmine and X-Man, one breaking away from her preacher father, the other heading for a life on the streets. Together, they escape Los Angeles South Central through their music.
- Author:Gradischnig, Hertwig, Maitner, HansSummary:
Brook Benton was a magnificent singer who could handle handle anything from blues, jazz and soul to country, pop and standards. His version of Tony Joe White’s ‘Rainy Night In Georgia’ - an international smash in 1970 - remains a...
- Author:Gaye, Jan.Summary:
On her seventeenth birthday in 1973, Janice Hunter met Marvin Gaye- the soulful prince of Motown with the seductive liquid voice whose chart-topping, socially conscious album What's Going On made him a superstar two years earlier....
