During the height of the AIDS epidemic, there was a standing joke among my cousins and my siblings: if anyone asks, “where are you from?” say you’re from Martinique not Haiti, anywhere other than Haiti. Although we joked about it we never denied our heritage. We are proud to be Haitian. Many friends and aquaintences [...]
Archive for January, 2010
A Prayer And A Plea For Haiti
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Haiti, insideplaya Doctors Without Borders, Red Cross, Red Cross Jossy Ann Dussek Dunne on EthUTC | 3 Comments »
WHAT TEDDY MEANT TO ME (or “Reflections of a White Girl Misunderstood”)
Posted in Music, tagged Al Green, Columbia Records, Dyana Williams, Faith Newman-Orbach, Harold Melvin & The Bluenotes, insideplaya, Keny Gamble, Leon Huff, Patti Labelle, Philadelhia International Records, Prince, Teddy Pendergrass, WDAS-FM on EthUTC | 12 Comments »
Theodore “Teddy” DeReese Pendergrass Sr. (March 26, 1950 – January 13, 2010 Soul City has suffered a loss that we will not soon forget. The incomparable Teddy “Bear” Pendergrass, the megawatt headliner from the Philadelphia based Gamble & Huff constellation of stars died at 9:50 PM on Wednesday evening in a Philadelphia area hospital with [...]
36,000,000 Sold And Counting II
Posted in Music, tagged Aretha Franklin, Arif Mardin, Blue Note Records, Brian Michel Bacchus, Bruce Lundvall, Duke Eliington, Horace Silver, Roberta Flack on EthUTC | 5 Comments »
When last we met, our hero (along with Bruce Lundvall) had successfully wooed Norah Jones, and convinced her that the landmark Jazz diskery, Blue Note Records was just the place for her to launch what would prove to be one of the most storied recording careers of the past quarter century. We pick up the [...]
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