Legendary South African singer Miriam Makeba, taken by Paul Weinberg Zenzile Miriam Makeba (b. March 4, 1932 – d.11/9/08,) nicknamed Mama Africa, was a South African singer, songwriter, actress, and civil rights activist. Associated with musical genres including Afropop, jazz, and world music, she was an advocate against apartheid and white-minority government in South Africa….
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Women Music March 2022 – Day 15 – Mavis Staples
Mavis Staples, 2006, photo by Tom Pich Mavis Staples (born July 10, 1939) is an American rhythm and blues and gospel singer, actress, and civil rights activist. Staples was born in Chicago, Illinois, on July 10, 1939. She began her career with her family group in 1950. Initially singing locally at churches and appearing on…
Women Music March 2022 – Day 14 – Patti Smith
Patti Smith performing at Provinssirock festival, Seinäjoki, Finland, June 2007. photograph by Beni Köhler Patricia Lee Smith (b. 12/30/46) is an American singer-songwriter, musician, author, and poet who became an influential component of the New York City punk rock movement with her 1975 debut album Horses. Called the “punk poet laureate”, Smith fused rock and…
Women Music March 2022 – Day 13 – Carol Kaye
Carol Kaye. Click on this to take you to a great interview with her at TapeOp Carol Kaye (née Smith, b. 3/24/35) is an American musician. She is one of the most prolific recorded bass guitarists in rock and pop music, playing on an estimated 10,000 recordings in a career spanning over 50 years. Kaye…
TSM 202 — When the sun shines bright, then sinks low
Carrying of the water, stoking of the stove, sweeping up the cinders, mending of the clothes. Cooking up the dinner, helping kids with sums; then telling bedtime stories, of faeries and Tom Thumbs, I tuck wee ones into dreams in trundle beds under wool. Undone it comes, one plait at a time, in warm gaslight….
Women Music March 2022 – Day 12 – Phoebe Snow
Phoebe Snow Phoebe Snow (born Phoebe Ann Laub; b. 7/17/50 – d. 4/26/11) was born in New York City and raised in a musical household in which Delta blues, Broadway show tunes, Dixieland jazz, classical music, and folk music recordings were played around the clock. Her father, Merrill Laub, an exterminator by trade, had an…
Women Music March 2022 – Day 11 – Courtney Love by Guest Writer, Steve for the Deaf
Today’s post is written by the most excellent music maven, author, and lover of good music, Steve for the Deaf. Steve has chosen to write about Courtney Love. Thanks so much, Steve, for writing and hope this is the first of many. Take it away, Steve! Discography: With Hole : Pretty On The Inside…
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