StreetcredMusic. Five Women I include In Every Playlist I Make.

 Maggie Rose

 Maggie Rose Durante was born in Potomac, Maryland and graduated from Georgetown, Prep School. She has been a lifelong singer but began performing at age 16 frequently with The B Street Band, a Bruce Springsteen tribute band. She attended Clemson University but moved to Nashville during her sophomore year in order to pursue a career in music upon receiving encouragement from producer Tommy Mottola, industry mogul and former head of Sony Music Entertainment (SME). 

We met just after the lock down was lifted. In New York City, and Chicago.

In 2023, Rose signed with Big Loud. Her first studio album with the label (fourth overall), No One Gets Out Alive, was released on April 5, 2024. The title tune is Grammy nominated for 'American Song of the Year' 2024.

 

My photo from the Knitting Factory, NYC

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StreetcredMusic. Five Women I Include In Every Playlist I make.

 Sade Adu

Sade grew up listening to American soul music, particularly the wave led in the 1970’s by artists such as Curtis Mayfield, Donny Hathaway, and Bill Withers. As a teenager, she saw the Jackson 5 at the Rainbow Theatre in Finsbury Park, London where she worked behind the bar at weekends. “I was more fascinated by the audience than by anything that was going on on the stage. They’d attracted kids, mothers with children, old people, white, black. I was really moved. That’s the audience I’ve always aimed for”.

 Sade served a long apprenticeship on the road with Pride. For three years, from 1981, she and the other seven members of the band toured the UK, often with her driving. Pride’s shows featured a segment in which Sade fronted a quartet that played quieter, jazzier numbers. One of these, a song called Smooth Operator, which Sade had co-written herself, attracted the attention of record company talent scouts. Soon, everybody wanted to sign her, but not the rest of Pride. Obstinately loyal to her friends in the group, Sade refused to depart. 18 months later she relented and signed to Epic records – on condition that she took with her the three band mates who still comprise the entity known as Sade: saxophonist Stuart Matthewman, keyboard player Andrew Hale, and bassist Paul Spencer Denman.

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 Prepared by: Pete Carma 

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.

 

StreetcredMusic. Taylor Swift ~ Maggie Rose

I don't know anything about the fabulous Taylor Swift. She has made millions and has a huge cult like following, that's great.I wish her more success. I have never heard her music. Never seen her live, all I know is what I see on talk shows and the like.

 

I know over 200 women artists. My blog, StreetcredMusic covers women in music, since 2010, mostly indie artists. The blog is 100% nonprofit. So let's have some fun and post videos from the women I know and those I have worked with, and Ms Swift....

 

 

 

 

Here is the video, "Blank Space"

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This is the marvelous, soulful voice of

 Maggie Rose

 

"Love Me More"

 

 

 

Maggie Rose Music