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 

StreetcredMusic. Maggie Rose "Love Me More"

       Margaret Rose Durante (born May 19, 1988) is an American soul and country music singer. In 2009, Durante signed to Universal Republic and released a cover of Kings of Leon's "Use Somebody". A year later, she left Universal Republic and signed to independent Emrose Records, an imprint that used the services of James Stroud's Stroudavarious Records. She charted two singles for Emrose and released her digital EP, Maybe Tonight. Maggie also recorded two songs that were featured in episodes of the Disney Channel's Shake It Up and Good Luck Charlie television series, and were included on the Shake It Up: Break It Down soundtrack album that was released on July 12, 2011

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 Durante changed her recording name to Maggie Rose in 2012 after signing with Scott Siman's RPM Management. When Siman expanded RPM to include a mainstream country label, he launched the album with her as the flagship artist with the first single being "I Ain't Your Mama". In 2017, Rose signed to Startruck Records, where she released her 2018 album Change the Whole Thing.     

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StreetcredMusic "Frontwomen" A Video History. Brittany Howard. Alabama Shakes.

 Brittany Howard was born in Athens, Alabama, one of two daughters born to Christi (née Carter) and K. J. Howard. Her mother is white, of English and Irish ancestry, while her father is African American. The family's home was in a junk yard, and once burned down due to a lightning strike. She learned to write poetry and play the piano from her older sister Jaime, who died from retinoblastoma in 1998. Howard got the same affliction but survived with partial blindness in one eye. She began playing the guitar at at age 13.

 

Alabama Shakes is an American rock band formed in Athens, Alabama, in 2009. The band consisted of lead singer and guitarist Brittany Howard, guitarist Heath Fogg, bassist Zac Cockrell, and drummer Steve Johnson.

  The band formed under the name "The Shakes" when Howard and bassist Zac Cockrell began playing covers and original songs together with drummer Steve Johnson.

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