Author: Rachel Stoler

https://lonnieshields.com/biography

Lonnie Shields is truly one of the finest of the next generation of the blues. He cut his blues teeth performing with The Jelly Roll Kings. His recording career has led him through a number of studios from Memphis and Clarksdale to tours all over the world. This Delta born guitarist, singer and songwriter’s style is just the opposite of his demeanor. Lonnie comes across as a mild mannered southern gentleman with a laid back nature. On stage he is transformed into an extraordinary entertainer moving to his music and feeding off the energy of the audience. His music is deeply rooted in gospel, soul and R&B while his sound, like his soul is never too far from the home of the blues.

https://www.npr.org/2024/11/10/530876080/ella-jenkins-dead-at-100

Ella Jenkins, the first lady of children’s music, has died at 100

You may have grown up hearing one of Ella Jenkins’ signature tunes, like “You’ll Sing A Song and I’ll Sing A Song.” And you may have then played her music for your own children. Jenkins, who was known as “the first lady of children’s music,” died on Saturday at her residence in Chicago. She was 100.

https://www.npr.org/2020/02/10/803620275/baby-rose-tiny-desk-concert

“This is what real love sounds like.”

From any other new artist, a Tiny Desk declaration like that might sound a tad bit presumptuous if not altogether premature. But when the voice behind those words is as seasoned and vintage as Baby Rose’s, everything it utters reverberates like the gospel truth.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baby_Rose

Jasmine Rose Wilson (born August 5, 1994), known professionally as Baby Rose, is an American singer.^[2][3] As of 2024, she is signed with the record label Secretly Canadian.^[4]

Bio

Amadi Azikiwe, violist, violinist and conductor, has been heard in recital in major cities throughout the United States, such as New York, Boston, Cleveland, Chicago, San Francisco, Pittsburgh, Houston, Baltimore, and Washington, D.C., including an appearance at the U.S. Supreme Court. Mr. Azikiwe has also been a guest of the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center at the Alice Tully Hall in New York, and at the Kennedy Center in Washington D.C. He has appeared in recital at the Piccolo Spoleto Festival in Charleston, the “Discovery” recital series in La Jolla, the International Viola Congress, and at the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Since then, he has performed throughout Israel, Canada, South America, Central America, Switzerland, India, Japan, Nigeria, Hong Kong, and throughout the Caribbean.

https://harlemchamberplayers.org/amadi-azikiwe

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armenta_Adams

Armenta Adams (Hummings) Dumisani (born 1936) is an American concert pianist and music educator who since 1960 has performed in the United States and, thanks to an international relations award from the U.S. State Department, in 27 other countries. In 1993, she founded the Gateways Music Festival which promotes the achievements of young African-American classical musicians. A former associate professor of music at the Eastman School of Music in Rochester, New York, in 1994 she was appointed Eastman’s Distinguished Community Mentor.^[1][2][3]

https://www.gatewaysmusicfestival.org/new-page-1miss-armentas-story-in-her-own-words

Miss Armenta’s story in her own words

https://www.npr.org/2024/11/04/834546599/quincy-jones-pop-mastermind-thriller-producer-dies

Quincy Jones, whose decorated music career ran from the early 1950s through the best-known works of Michael Jackson and beyond, died Sunday. He was 91.

https://travelnoire.com/black-excellence-meet-the-identical-twin-brothers-who-are-pilots-on-alaska-airlines

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kelis

Kelis Rogers (/kəˈliːs/;^[2] born August 21, 1979) is an American singer-songwriter and chef.^[3] She attended New York‘s Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School of Music & Art and Performing Arts,^[4] where she played saxophone and was selected for the Girls Choir of Harlem.^[5] Upon graduation, Rogers landed a role as a backing vocalist for the hip hop group Gravediggaz. She then began working with music producers Pharrell Williams and Chad Hugo—collectively known as the Neptunes—who led her to sign with Virgin Records in 1998.^[6][7]