#GlobalFusionPlaylist #SoulMusic #Growth #FutureIcons 2013: Reclaiming!

As I had to look at the social media floating images of Nicki Minaj on all 4′s with Lil Wayne behind her promoting a song called “High School” no less-LOL-SMH…#Befitting #HigherLevels #Education. Thank »

Marvin Gaye was born as Marvin Pentz Gay, Jr. – undeniably one of the greatest musicians of all time by any local or global standards. Marvin Gaye put the soul in music bathed in a spiritual purification and awakening, as well as pure unadulterated ecstasy »

With the world’s hot love affair with the African continent, African artists are slowly becoming a force to reckon with globally. The sounds of Africa are once again becoming the soundtrack of revolutions sparking, the voice of the voiceless and the celebration of the so called »

Classics are decided by the times and the people. Imagine a world without Marvin Gaye and What’s Going On! Never!!! This album was rejected by Barry Gordy (Mr. Motown), but now is said amongst many to be one of the greatest albums of all »

The power and importance of producers and songwriters in the entertainment industry is undeniable. The score to our everyday life reality is reflected in the score to our fantasies in films and other mediums of human expression. Songwriter and producer, Hakim Abdulsamad, currently of The Suns of »

There will always be someone who has it better or worse than us all. As Bob Marley said “Every man thinks his burden is the heaviest …Who feels it knows it not ” #CountYourBlessings .

I watched a 20/20 episode that reminded me to »

As we honor the messenger on the 31st anniversary of his transition from earth to home going- leaving the world to carry on the teachings of love and freedom, and the love in freedom- I thought I should pay tribute in profile to Nestor Robert »

As we go thru Europe to find the soul of music being brought by the Daughters of Yaa sprinkled all over the world in warrior queen goodness, our passport in global fusion leads us to make a stop in Germany  and London Via African foundations »

As Dr. Kwame Nkrumah said: “I am not African because I was born in Africa, but because Africa was born in me.”

When I see articles like “Some blacks insist: ‘I’m not African-American” & “Beyoncé L’Oreal ad controversy inspires black community »

If there is a time more than ever when our little girls need a supershero from Africa to her Diaspora..it surely is Now. Issues from colorism, racism, sexism & all of our many global isms, skisms  etc. & overcoming themhas led to »