"The industry has spent decades telling talent to be genuine, build trust, and create authentic relationships with listeners. Yet when those same qualities extend beyond sports and into the realities of the business itself, they can suddenly be viewed as liabilities instead of strengths."
Before the Internet, we were the Internet for the African American community. We were music. We were gospel for inspiration. We were the newspaper, and we still are that world.
“It is something that I cry and scream and whine about a lot at conventions or to anybody who will listen is that there’s not enough people remembering that that’s what this is - this is a performing art. It’s a performance."
I've always been a fan of late ‘70s and early ‘80s soft rock. One of my first cassette tapes as a kid was Christopher Cross with that iconic flamingo on the front.
It's the Classic Hits, the Classic Rock that everyone expects; everyone loves, and everyone knows every lyric of every song. That is our mojo. However, the power is between the songs.
"The industry has spent decades telling talent to be genuine, build trust, and create authentic relationships with listeners. Yet when those same qualities extend beyond sports and into the realities of the business itself, they can suddenly be viewed as liabilities instead of strengths."
"I, somehow, have been able to survive and adapt. My career is full of different chapters. Every one of those chapters, I never really knew if I’d make it out of it."