Here is a great recording of Nneka performing her song entitled Come With Me on madmoizelle.com, a French website that films music videos in what is usually a unplugged raw format. I especially love this recording of Nneka performing this song for how tight the shot is, letting us in close to feel her emotion about what she sings about.
Her emotions are on high in this recording. She nearly breaks down, emotionally, as she delivers this song. It's powerful. It's real. She's real.
Spoke to her once and she is thinking about some heavy geopolitical and humanitarian things with regards to her native Niger Delta region where she is from. She is tuned into the corporatists and crony capitalists who are being allowed by corrupt politicos to literally steal resources from the people of the reason, while the people of the Niger Delta live in totally poverty and their waterways and land is becoming more polluted, in ways that dwarf the BP/Gulf of Mexico oil spill.
As she points out in her song entitled "Africans", the people, Africans, must wake up and stop blaming and take control. She is a voice for uprising, change and her music is real as an activist voice. She is heroic on that level. Kind of a Bob Marley figure, reincarnated. Nneka is inspiring and a truly global artist, bouncing around the globe for shows on a regular basis now. Catch her live if you can. GC
Nneka - Come With Me - Unplugged live on French madmoiZelle TV
Connect direct with Nneka at NnekaWorld.Com
Remembering Nick Ashford - May 4, 1941 – August 22, 2011
Nick Ashford and his songwriting partner & wife Valerie Simpson were not only one of the great Soul/R&B/Funk/Jazz songwriting teams from the mid sixties on, they were recording artists in their own right.
As staff songwriters for Scepter Records, Ashford and Simpson wrote Ray Charles' classic "Let's Go Get Stoned" in 1964, which brought them to the attention of Motown. The song became a number one U.S. R&B hit in 1966 for Ray Charles.
Ray Charles - Let's Go Get Stoned
Ronnie Milsap used a song penned by Ashford & Simpson entitled Never Had It So Good
Maxine Brown recorded their song entitled One Step At A Time.
As a team the duo went on to write some of the biggest hits in R&B history including several Motown classics.
Marvin Gaye & Tammi Terrell first recording Ashford & Simpsons song Aint No Mountain High Enough (1967)
Diana Ross also covered a great version of Ain't No Mountain High Enough
Ashford & Simpson also wrote "You're All I Need To Get By" covered by Marvin Gaye & Tammi Terrell
"Ain't Nothing Like the Real Thing" first covered by Marvin Gaye and Tammi Terrell in 1968
The Jackson 5 also covered Ain't Nothing Like The Real Thing
Below is Ashford and Simpson performing their classic hit " Reach and Touch Somebody's Hand
" with their friends Ben E. King, Roberta Flack, Phyllis Hyman, Cissy Houston, Paul Shaffer, Stevie Wonder, and Patti LaBelle.
"Reach Out and Touch (Somebody's Hand)"
As staff songwriters for Scepter Records, Ashford and Simpson wrote Ray Charles' classic "Let's Go Get Stoned" in 1964, which brought them to the attention of Motown. The song became a number one U.S. R&B hit in 1966 for Ray Charles.
Ray Charles - Let's Go Get Stoned
Ronnie Milsap used a song penned by Ashford & Simpson entitled Never Had It So Good
Maxine Brown recorded their song entitled One Step At A Time.
As a team the duo went on to write some of the biggest hits in R&B history including several Motown classics.
Marvin Gaye & Tammi Terrell first recording Ashford & Simpsons song Aint No Mountain High Enough (1967)
Diana Ross also covered a great version of Ain't No Mountain High Enough
Ashford & Simpson also wrote "You're All I Need To Get By" covered by Marvin Gaye & Tammi Terrell
"Ain't Nothing Like the Real Thing" first covered by Marvin Gaye and Tammi Terrell in 1968
The Jackson 5 also covered Ain't Nothing Like The Real Thing
Below is Ashford and Simpson performing their classic hit " Reach and Touch Somebody's Hand
" with their friends Ben E. King, Roberta Flack, Phyllis Hyman, Cissy Houston, Paul Shaffer, Stevie Wonder, and Patti LaBelle.
"Reach Out and Touch (Somebody's Hand)"
Ayo's latest videos: Michael Jackson Tribute of I Want You Back and more :)
Early in 2009, as MusicLoad regulars and any of my friends will recall, I could not stop raving about Ayo. I especially loved her song entitled "Life Is Real" and wrote a little about her and posted the video at http://www.musicload.com/2009/02/ayo-life-is-real.html.
This is her latest, a Jackson 5 cover song titled I Want You Back.
Ayo - I Want You Back (Jackson 5 Cover)
Ayo also recorded an original track entitled I'm Gonna Dance. This is the way I like Ayo most, when she keeps it original. Enjoy! GC
Ayo - I'm Gonna Dance
Connect direct with Ayo at AyoMusic.com, Facebook.com/AyoMusicOfficial, Instagram.com/AyoMusic and Twitter.com/AyoMusic
This is her latest, a Jackson 5 cover song titled I Want You Back.
Ayo - I Want You Back (Jackson 5 Cover)
Ayo also recorded an original track entitled I'm Gonna Dance. This is the way I like Ayo most, when she keeps it original. Enjoy! GC
Ayo - I'm Gonna Dance
Connect direct with Ayo at AyoMusic.com, Facebook.com/AyoMusicOfficial, Instagram.com/AyoMusic and Twitter.com/AyoMusic
ADELE - 'Hometown Glory' (2008)
Listen to clips and/or buy Adele's first record from 2008 entitled "19"
Felix Reibl has a great sounding backing band
Posted by Gregory J. Chamberlain
At first listen, the front man Felix Reibl doesn't really stand out in this song, but if you hang on and listen, it's quickly apparent that the band, in a very traditional rock sounding way, is really good.
The music in the above video is from Felix's latest solo project (2011). He is best known as being part of The Cat Empire.
Felix Reibl performs So Many Nights from his earlier project known as The Cat Empire (2008)
Listen to and buy music from The Cat Empire featuring Felix Reibl
At first listen, the front man Felix Reibl doesn't really stand out in this song, but if you hang on and listen, it's quickly apparent that the band, in a very traditional rock sounding way, is really good.
The music in the above video is from Felix's latest solo project (2011). He is best known as being part of The Cat Empire.
Felix Reibl performs So Many Nights from his earlier project known as The Cat Empire (2008)
Listen to and buy music from The Cat Empire featuring Felix Reibl
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