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Post by puma on Feb 27, 2012 17:15:55 GMT 1
SC: Zimbabweans would love to know who Zahara is. Where did you come from musically and what is your background? BM: I am originally from Phumlani in the Eastern Cape, South Africa. I was brought up in a Christian family. I was always involved in church and Sunday school projects. When I was in matric, my parents bought my sister a guitar, although she never used it. One day I just decided to take the guitar and start teaching myself how to play it. My friend would lend me DVD's of musicians like Lauryn Hill and India Arie. I would watch those DVD's and watch how they played the guitar, look at their finger placements and so on. I basically taught myself to play a guitar. That is how I discovered that I could be a musician, knowing that I couldn't further my studies due to financial constraints as my parents could not afford to pay university fees. I performed at clubs and that is where Mr TK Nciza (CEO of TS Records) discovered me. SC: Why did you choose Afro jazz? BM: I grew up listening to Tracy Chapman, India Arie and Lauryn Hill among others. They inspired me to sing the kind of soulful music that I am singing now. Also my voice made it obvious that I would only sing that kind of music. allafrica.com/stories/201202271596.html
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Post by puma on Feb 29, 2012 21:26:25 GMT 1
Black History Month: The Source Celebrates Lauryn Hill With her harmonic voice and around the way aura, every Black woman has a little bit of Lauryn Hill in them. Her music has touched millions, as proven in her record sales, yet she humbly avoids the publicity that always accompanies a superstar. Lauryn is regarded as one of the greatest artists of our generation, raising the creative bar for all entertainers, male and female. Her natural style set a standard of pride for young Black women to embrace themselves as they were, unapologetically rejecting the norm of who and what a successful woman should be. Even in the midst of controversy and industry gossip, Lauryn Hill has rose above the restrictions of just being an accomplished female artist, but instead, has blossomed into a legend. The first time the world had the opportunity to experience Ms. Hill, she was an actress, appearing in the soap opera “As The World Turns” and the movie she is most widely recognized for, Sister Act 2. Her claim to fame came as the Queen of The Fugees, the Grammy winning, platinum selling trio that produced one of Hip Hop’s all time coveted masterpieces, “The Score”. This merely set the stage for her solo flight, “The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill”. On this date in 1999, the former Fugees first lady became the first woman to be nominated for Grammys in ten categories in the same year and the first woman to win five Grammys in one night. The Miseducation went on to sell 18 million copies, which forever carved the name of Lauryn Hill in music and women’s history. www.thesource.com/articles/202438/Black-History-Month%3A-The-Source-Celebrates-Lauryn-Hill?thesource-prod=5u4jbvq
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Post by Essence on Mar 5, 2012 0:17:20 GMT 1
The whole video is basically about Lauryn. lol
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Post by guest21 on Mar 7, 2012 21:15:44 GMT 1
Uganda: Invisible Children's Jason Russell on KONY 2012 BY KRISTA MORGAN, 7 MARCH 2012 Comment (2) INTERVIEW KONY 2012 is a film and campaign by Invisible Children that aims to make Joseph Kony famous, not to celebrate him, but to raise support for his arrest ... ( Resource: NGO Raises Awareness of Joseph Kony With Short Film Editor's Note: Invisible Children's latest film, KONY 2012, premiered online today at 12 p.m. PST. It will serve as the cornerstone of a new joint campaign of Invisible Children, Resolve, and the Enough Project to make this year Joseph Kony's last as the leader of Africa's longest running insurgency. This Q+A with Invisible Children's Jason Russell, written by Krista Morgan, is cross-posted from IC's blog. In anticipation of the Invisible Children Online World Premiere of KONY 2012, I sat down with co-founder and filmmaker Jason Russell to discuss details of the film and what his hopes are in launching the most important film we've ever made. Why 2012? Why this year? In the last 9 years of trying to end the war, the puzzle pieces have not been aligned like they are now. When Obama deployed the advisory troops in October, it was a shock. My psyche was stunned; I never thought that the government could or would actually do it. The fact that they did do it and that advisors are there now, makes the end of this war totally possible but it's very time-sensitive. Everyone that's been working on the conflict from Senator Inhofe to Resolve to John Prendergast know that it has to be 2012 because by the time it turns 2013, the advisors would have been there [some might say] too long. What inspired you while creating the new film? This film was one of – if not the hardest – for me to ever make because it was so personal and hard to be objective. What inspired me the most was seeing the purity through the eyes of my 4-year-old son while giving him limited information of Joseph Kony and what he does to children. Hearing Gavin say, "We need to stop him" really reinforced the purpose of the film for me. The intention of the movie from the very beginning was to make a 20-30 minute piece telling the audience exactly what the facts are and what exactly they can to do in order to see this conflict end. And I feel like we've done that. Why make Joseph Kony famous? We want to make him known, which is really hard to do in a culture that has so many options and distractions and different stories. So the best way we knew how to do that was to take advantage of the fact that it was an election year, and insert his name into a mock campaign in the run for presidency. I've been inspired by Lauren Hill's quote, "Fantasy is what people want but reality is what they need." It's the sense that people don't want to think about war or think about child trafficking and it makes sense, I don't want to think about it either. But if you can do something to influence the end of violence or tragedy in the world, then you should do it. The problem with Joseph Kony is that nobody knows who he is. It was actually an idea Michael Poffenberger [of Resolve] had while working in DC talking with Congressmen and Senators. He said, "You know Gaddafi is known in North Korea but Joseph Kony is just not known…I wish Joseph Kony was famous." And out of that came the whole campaign. What's the dream for KONY 2012? The ultimate dream for KONY 2012 is that it becomes a tipping point for conversation, and that people will make a commitment to stop at nothing by making sure Kony is known in their circle of influence, whether it's their family or office or school. The dream would be for Kony to be captured, not killed, and brought to the International Criminal Court to face trial. The world would know about his crimes and they would watch the trial play out on an international level, seeing a man face justice who got away with abducting children, raping little girls, and mutilating people's faces for 26 years. If you could say anything to Joseph Kony, what would it be? [long pause] I've thought about this for a long time. I would just say thank you for creating such a clear example of what it means to be perverse and diabolical and for forcing us, as a generation and as a world, to deal with future individuals who think they can get away with murder. He is the clearest example of something that we all as humans can agree on is wrong and needs to be stopped. www.youtube.com/results?search_query=kony+2012&oq=kony+&aq=0&aqi=g4&aql=&gs_sm=1&gs_upl=11409l15383l0l18323l5l5l0l0l0l0l64l312l5l5l0
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Post by guest21 on Mar 7, 2012 21:18:34 GMT 1
KONY 2012
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Post by dee267 on Mar 10, 2012 2:07:22 GMT 1
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Post by puma on Mar 17, 2012 7:00:18 GMT 1
As a co-producer for the Fugees alongside your cousin Wyclef Jean, did you recognize just how gifted each individual in the group was early on? What were the early years like in the Booga Basement? Well you know, Booga Basement was a studio me, Wyclef and my brother Renel built. We didn’t know what we were doing, but we all knew we loved music and we wanted to have a studio. You had Lauryn Hill who would come by the house all the time because of the group to work. You would also have Pras coming through doing his own thing, believe or not “Killing me softly” was a Pras pick. Clef was a genius with the guitar, keyboards, production, etc. To me, everyone had their own special talents. Lauren would come up with the melodies and just bring her talents with getting all the classics together that I would chop up in the machine. Pras would add on to make it complete. I was always called Fugee #4, but I was just that kid in the studio creating beats, playing the bass and building the studio which was in my Father’s house. That was just the vibe at the time. Did you ever imagine “The Score” album would become the extraordinary success in sales it became? What did that album do for your drive as a producer?Man real talk…when I was doing “The Score”, it was about the love for the music!!! I didn’t really know you could make money out of it…real talk. I was just going to school, making tracks in the studio and had a part time job as a bus boy making my little tape money and buying equipment for the studio. At the time, I didn’t know I was going to be a part of a classic album. I was just like “Let’s make some great music!”. That experience was the best thing that ever happened to me. This is why I’m here now with Platinum Sounds. I never feel like I’m done because I have so much more to do! Between the new Keisha Cole single, Akon, Justin Bieber, Estelle, etc. I feel I have so much more to contribute with my team Wonda Music. It’s still a new beginning! www.thesource.com/articles/206536?thesource-prod=l7c7lo9083ehqnr4ohhhk7nlq7
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Post by ladona on Mar 19, 2012 2:41:07 GMT 1
Nicole David Jaffe: The voice of Velma on the "Scooby Doo Show." She was/is also Ms. Hill's agent. What about the show itself?I don’t really remember. I can tell you when I first really appreciated the show for real. I met Lauryn Hill (the singer) and she must’ve found out that I did that show and she was so impressed. She happens to be really smart. She was an amazing young woman. When she started saying how great the show was, I watched three or four episodes to figure out what she was talking about. That was many years [after I was on it]. I would say twenty years ago. noblemania.blogspot.com/2011/10/super-70s-and-80s-scooby-doo-where-are_10.html
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Post by ladona on Apr 3, 2012 2:12:05 GMT 1
Will Yip, producer:Miss [Lauryn] Hill is one of the most intense and brilliant artists I’ve ever met. We’ll have rehearsals from 2:00 p.m. to 5:30 in the morning. It’s like physical boot camp with her. She’ll push her musicians to the limit physically, and really their emotional limits, because people are just on the brink of going crazy. But she tests you and she pushes you so she can get the best out of you. www.wetfeet.com/advice-tools/entrepreneurs/making-it-in-the-music-industry
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Post by hi74 on Apr 5, 2012 12:12:58 GMT 1
[..] I was there in that room,it was just AMAZING!!Kanyi & her Band pulled off an amazing show...Lauryn Hill just was a Cherry on Top.It was such a God given moment,I find it so amazing that they left this song as an encore song, its called "Amaphupha"(Dreams), that moment was a Dream come thru especially for Kanyi. She stands there next to Ms Hill at the end & shouts the title of her Album "Intombi Zifikile"(THE GIRLS HAVE ARRIVED) & Ms Hill, not understand the language, she raises a Fist!! Powerful!! [..] NdumisoLindiComedian www.youtube.com/watch?v=YNutsgS0V7gps: the photos belong to Ms Mali Lulama I thank her very warmly for these photos myspace Artist Ms Kanyi Mavi's www.myspace.com/kanyimusic
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Post by puma on Apr 8, 2012 18:22:14 GMT 1
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Post by dee267 on Apr 20, 2012 0:01:55 GMT 1
Darryl Jenifer: You see the press is the ones who said that we broke up. We worked and did other things but you got to understand, the Bad Brains are family. We've known each other all our lives we're like brothers, we never broke up. You can't break up with your brother or sister, can you? You can't do it, I can't either, (and) we don't do that. We might get mad at each other, as you saw in the documentary, we have our little "things" (but) it's a family. That's the beauty of it. (H.R.) He's the oldest, it goes all the way down to me and we all respect each other accordingly. We're in this together, we are Bad Brains, this is what we do. Like LL (Cool J) said don't call it comeback, we've been here for years, we never left. When we kicking our music it's not entertainment, we still fighting. Like our music to us is like a spearhead, like a battle against the negativity of the world. And our music is sending out positive pluses, just licking out minuses. H.R. is a true artist, one of the true artists that are still left, like Lauryn Hill. I've been working with Miss Hill, who is a genius. She's not necessarily interested in playing her album (The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill), which is a great album, the way that it is. She wants to make it different. She wants to make it more energetic and more to where she is today, she doesn't care about people booing her. They're trying to create and move forward, they got a mission with their music. H.R., he'd rather have all new songs and everything. Source: washingtoninformer.com/index.php/lifestyle/entertainment/item/6284-social-studies-people-places-and-things
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Post by ladona on Apr 22, 2012 4:12:25 GMT 1
Niki Hall-Stylist Miss Hill Can Still Boogie Over the Christmas holiday[December 2010], I had the fortunate opportunity to meet with Lauryn Hill and to help her get dressed for her performance at Rock Shop in New Haven. After several years of being off the scene, she still has that star style that just doesn't seem to fizzle, and she's in great shape! This is the outfit that we came up with: thisisniki.blogspot.com/2010/12/miss-hill-can-still-boogie.html
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