Gladys Knight Love is what makes the world go around. I know it’s a big cliche to use, but it is the absolute truth. There is nothing else like it. I know that is what everybody is striving to feel: in relationships, in brother- and sisterhood, and in all of the things that we aspire…
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Women Music March 2024 – Day 12 – Dusty Springfield
image from fanpop. Click on the link to take you to a whole gallery of Dusty Springfield photos! A lot of people say I’m bent and I’ve heard it so many times I’ve almost learned to accept it … I couldn’t stand to be thought of as a big butch lady. But I know I’m…
Women Music March 2024 — Day 11 — Hildegard von Bingen
Hildegard of Bingen From my early childhood, before my bones, nerves, and veins were fully strengthened, I have always seen this vision in my soul, even to the present time when I am more than seventy years old. In this vision, my soul, as God would have it, rises up high into the vault of…
Women Music March 2024 – Day 10 – Sandy Denny
Sandy Denny (site it came from was bogus so no link) They put up the walls with no more to say,Nobody stopped to ask why it was done.The stream was too far and the rain was too high,So into the city the river did run.Because of the architect the buildings fell down,Smothered or drowned all…
Women Music March — Day 9 — Beyoncé
Beyoncé – Tottenham Hotspur Stadium – 1st June 2023 It is so liberating to really know what I want, what truly makes me happy, what I will not tolerate. I have learned that it is no one else’s job to take care of me but me. Beyoncé Giselle Knowles-Carter (b. 9/4/81) is an American singer,…
Women Music March — Day 8 — Ronnie Spector and The Ronettes
L-R: Nedra Talley, Veronica Bennett (Ronnie Spector), Estelle Bennett Veronica Yvette Greenfield (née Bennett) aka Ronnie Spector (b. 8/10/43 – d. 1/12/22) was an American singer who co-founded and fronted the girl group the Ronettes. She is sometimes referred to as the original “bad girl of rock and roll.” Ronnie formed the singing group with…
Women Music March 2024 — Day 7 — Cindy Blackman Santana (by Guest Writer, Christian Pflaumer)
Before getting into actual post, I want to thank Christian at Christian’s Music Musings for so graciously agreeing to be a guest writer today. Christian was at liberty to choose any Woman Musician to write about and he chose the exceptionally talented drummer, Cindy Blackman Santana. Cindy Blackman Santana “I feel that music, in general,…
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