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Speak Up AND Sing
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Piggybacking, a bit, on Shane’s blog entry about Jay-Z yesterday, Jaguar Wright is performing at Atlanta’s Sugar Hill tonight,
And for those who don’t know, Wright is the dynamic R&B singer who lent her might to rap mogul Jay-Z’s incredible MTV Unplugged album in 2001.
Wright is also one of the rare artists in contemporary music who may be as interesting when she speaks, as she is when she sings. Case in point, her appearance at Terry Bello’s first Soul Music Summit, where at times it felt like she was leading church she was getting so many applause and “Amens” to her critique of her peers and her genre.
Unlike earlier decades, it’s a rare instance where a musician does, say, a Kanye West and uses the microphone to say something informed, original or just surprising. Do you think that’s because they are afraid? Cloaking themselves in that “I’m not a role model. I’m just here to entertain” pose? Or are there just so many studio creations in music now that audiences are satisfied simply having them duplicate the record and dance well, not open their mouths and affirm how dim we already suspected they were?
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