I simply love that OUR art and artistic expression is being brought into the White House by The First Family. Of course, I love ballet and can appreciate opera. But POETRY AND SPOKEN WORD are beautiful African-American art forms. And deserve to be brought into the White House to educate and share with all cultures as well as ballet and opera.
Brava First Lady! Brava!!
Laila’s remix to “Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star”
I love this so much. She’s my 3rd baby and I’ve never heard this before even from the older kids. HAD to record it. The last time I recorded Laila she was 3 months old. Now 3 years old, needless to say, she is growing beautifully :)
The big kids 1st music recital. They did so well!! I’m a proud momma :))
I had no idea Einstein was a musician. Sometimes I struggle with my teaching and my trading. Sometimes, I feel like I need to choose one over the other. This picture validates my own crazy duality on so many levels :))
Eyen Akwa Ibom (via jeremee6680)
They are rapping in IBIBIO! I LOVE IT!
COMMON “The Light ” LIVE w/ Colbie Caillat & Zac Brown (via blacktreemedia)
Common shows just how much of a musical genius he is by orchestrating his song with musicians of other genres while on a panel, all live and spontaneously. Pure musical genius.
“Music affects us more profoundly and extensively than language, because it is experienced bodily and emotionally and immediately — it does not need ‘translation’ by the brain to give it meaning”
“Leaning more towards hip-hop than high life, the latest breed of Nigerian artists fuse American urban sounds with Nigerian influences to great effect… But.. it is marked with a distinctly Nigerian stamp… Industry observers think the Nigerian music scene could become as successful as Nollywood - Nigeria’s film industry, which is now rated as the third largest in the world.”
MICHAEL JACKSON - THE GREATEST OF ALL TIIIIIIMMMME! His influence is undeniable and captured visually by this graphic.
MJ’s hip hop influences
(via Conor McDonough and nahright.com and adamiss)
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I need this bookshelf in my life.
At Blue and White Formal 2012: Casino Royale
Zeta Phi Beta Sorority, Incorporated
Lola doing the “Atlanta”
Photo by Jide Alakija
