Acclaimed singer/songwriter Laura Love is known for her "folk-funk" style of music. In this, her writing debut, she focuses her talents on a poignant memoir of growing up in an extremely dysfunctional family in racially troubled...
African American singers
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Auteur:Love, LauraSommaire: - Auteur:Norman-Bellamy, KendraSommaire:
Could Shaylynn Ford be the perfect woman for Neil Taylor? Neil certainly thinks so. The problem is, he's pretty sure he's not her perfect man--that was her husband, Emmett, a wealthy politician who was assassinated eight years...
- Auteur:Porter, BillySommaire:
"This is not a coming-out story. It's not a down-low story either. I never could have passed for straight, even if I'd wanted to, and so I never had the dubious luxury of living a lie." From the incomparable Emmy, Grammy, and Tony Award...
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Auteur:Freedman, RussellSommaire:In the 1930s, black singer Marian Anderson was not allowed to perform at Constitution Hall. But with help from Eleanor Roosevelt, Anderson staged an amazing concert at the Lincoln Memorial and became an activist for civil rights.
- Auteur:Garcia, MayteSommaire:
Mayte Garcia for the first time shares the deeply personal story of her relationship with Prince and offers a singular perspective on the music icon and their world together: from their unconventional meeting backstage at a concert (and...
- Auteur:Mason, FeliciaSommaire:
For eighteen years Roger McKenzie has led a gospel singing group, The Triumphant Voices of Praise. But The Voices have failed to win commercial or critical success. When Roger's leadership is questioned, personal problems threaten to...
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Auteur:Lee, Maureen D.Sommaire:Matilda Sissieretta Joyner Jones, whose nickname the "Black Patti" likened her to the well-known Spanish-born opera star Adelina Patti, was a distinguished African American soprano during the late 19th and early 20th centuries....
- Auteur:Abdurraqib, HanifSommaire:
A young Aretha Franklin captivates her community with the song "Respect" during the height of the Civil Rights Movement, in this striking biography that will embolden today's young listeners to sing their own truth. When...
- Auteur:Smith, DanyelSommaire:
A weave of biography, criticism, and memoir, Shine Bright is Danyel Smith’s intimate history of Black women’s music as the foundational story of American pop. Smith has been writing this history for more than five years. But as a music...
- Auteur:Doig, IvanSommaire:
Set during the 1920s, this novel finds Susan Duff, the young songbird from Doig's Dancing at the Rascal Fair, now a middle-aged singing coach living in Helena. When her old flame Wes Williamson asks her to mentor his black chauffeur,...
- Auteur:Jackson, Tiffany D.Sommaire:
When legendary R&B artist Korey Fields spots Enchanted Jones at an audition, her dreams of being a famous singer take flight. Until Enchanted wakes up with blood on her hands and zero memory of the previous night. Who killed Korey...
- Auteur:Kennedy, GerrickSommaire:
A sweeping look at Whitney Houston's life which contextualizes her struggles against the backdrop of tabloid culture, mental health stigmas, and racial divisions in America.
- Auteur:Jackson, SheneskaSommaire:
The story of Jazmine and X-Man, one breaking away from her preacher father, the other heading for a life on the streets. Together, they escape Los Angeles South Central through their music.
- Auteur:Gradischnig, Hertwig, Maitner, HansSommaire:
Brook Benton was a magnificent singer who could handle handle anything from blues, jazz and soul to country, pop and standards. His version of Tony Joe White’s ‘Rainy Night In Georgia’ - an international smash in 1970 - remains a...
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Auteur:Gaye, Jan.Sommaire:On her seventeenth birthday in 1973, Janice Hunter met Marvin Gaye- the soulful prince of Motown with the seductive liquid voice whose chart-topping, socially conscious album What's Going On made him a superstar two years earlier....
