StreetcredMusic. RAP....ture. Two Videos, Two Generations. Blondie, Anita Baker

 

Blondie is an American Rock band formed in New York City in 1974 by singer Debbie Harry and guitarist Chris Stein. The band was a pioneer in the American new wave genre and scene of the mid-1970s.

The band's first two albums contained strong elements of Punk and new wave, and although highly successful in the UK and Australia, Blondie was regarded as an underground band in the US until the release of their critically acclaimed third album Parallel Lines in 1978. 

VIDEO:::   "RAPTURE" Blondie

 

 

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Anita Denise Baker is an American singer-songwriter. She is known for her soulful ballads, particularly from the height of the quiet storm period in the 1980s. 

Starting her career in the late 1970s with the funk band Chapter 8, Baker released her first solo album, The Songstress, in 1983.

  VIDEO~   Anita Baker "RAPTURE" 

@IAMANITABAKER

 

 

StreetcredMusic. Here's a memory. I'm so glad I have it. Kayce Laine

Here's a memory. I'm so glad I have it. 

Kayce Laine

Pianowomen 2016, New York City.

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StreetcredMusic. We have brought you so many great pianists. Cezara Lucia Vladescu. Part 1.

Cezara Lucia Vladescu 

Amazing artist and human.

I wrote you a letter. Seven years ago. I wrote you a letter. On a pink sheet. So you will know it is me before reading it. And to make sure no one else will open it. No one opens a pink sheet letter.

Today, it’s been exactly seven years, since I wrote you that letter. I don’t know how…how it came to…this, but I wrote you a letter.
I imagined you opening it, reading it, and calling me. I had already prepared what I would tell to you.

But you didn`t call me. You never said a word to me.

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VIDEO HERE:  EPA An original composition

 

StreetcredMusic. Yes Miley Cyrus, we both, "Used To Be Young"

Miley Cyrus

 American singer, songwriter, and actress. Regarded as a pop icon, Cyrus has been recognized for her evolving artistry and style, having been named as the "Teen Queen" of the 2000s. She is also cited as one of the few examples of a child star with a successful musical career as an adult.

Miley Cyrus

Cyrus has been open about her recreational use of cannabis. She told Rolling Stone in 2013 that it was "the best drug on earth" and called it, along with MDMA, a "happy drug".

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      Video: "Used To Be Young"
 

Women's History Month 2024. Janis Joplin

 The woman who made a path for "Front women"

{1943-1970}  In 1967, Joplin rose to prominence following an appearance at Monterey Pop Festival, where she was the lead singer of the then little-known San Francisco psychedelic rock band Big Brother and the Holding Company

 Joplin died of a heroin overdose in 1970, at the age of 27, after releasing three albums (two with Big Brother and the Holding Company and one solo album). A second solo album, Pearl, was released in January 1971, just over three months after her death. It reached number one on the Billboard charts. She was posthumously inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1995.

I had the privilege of seeing her live twice. Hard to compare her stage presence to anyone. 

Perhaps, Judy Garland, Sinatra, James Brown. She changed what a woman could do as a "Front woman"

 Rock music is no longer a boy's club thanks to her.