Why I have opened the window!

Amerykah has turned a corner and we should all turn with it. I have thoughts ideas and suggestions but I also have patience and desire for us to be whole and one. I have been speaking a lot lately of the human condition and the generations of Black Americans. i will entertain any and all conversation as long as we can be respectful and grown up. Let the healing begin......
Showing posts with label musician. Show all posts
Showing posts with label musician. Show all posts

Tuesday, March 24, 2009

Tuesdays Invitation!




Stevie Wonder was born Stevland Hardaway Morris May 13, 1950 in Saginaw Michigan He is a multi award winning…c’mon he is Stevie Wonder, who does not know what he is best known for.


I am going to diverge from the regular invite formula and talk about what Stevie Wonder means to me. My parents had divorced by the time I was three so I never knew of a time when all three of us lived in the same house together. My early life was full of sporadic weekend visits to my father’s house where I would spend a lot of time perusing his majestic record collection, which was pretty much equal to my mother’s majestic record collection. In both collections there were some standards and one of them was the collected works of Stevie Wonder. Of course there was a LP that this one had that that one didn’t but by that time Stevie had multiple songs on multiple records. In a twist of personal irony one of my favorite Stevie Wonder albums “Journey thru the secret life of plants” neither of them had. So Stevie was one of the few things that for me as a kid united us as a family. Oh and I loved him on Sesame Street!

So Stevie Wonder., please accept this invitation to the Dinner party of the year. Your opinion, your diversity, and your music are more than welcome! (One of your albums will probably be in rotation in the background anyway so you won’t have to perform!)

Tuesday, January 06, 2009

Tuesdays Invitation!





Malcolm Jamal Warner was born August 18th 1970 and raised in Jersey City, NJ. He is best known around the world for playing Theo Huxtable for the entire 8 year run of “The Cosby Show”


While it is true that Malcolm is known for his on screen personas on Cosby, Malcolm and Eddie, and Jeremiah, what a lot of people miss are the other skills that lends to the global community. He is also an accomplished speaker, writer and director but for me what helps him make the invite list is his musical talent. Malcolm has for years honed his craft as a musical artist with his band “Miles Long”. In 2003 he released his first album “The Miles Long Mixtape” and in 2007 his follow up “Love & Other Social Issues”

So Malcolm Jamal Warner please accept this invitation to the Dinner party of the year. Your opinion, your diversity, and your jazz are more than welcome! (One of your albums will probably be in rotation in the background anyway so you won’t have to perform!)