OT: Black Music Month - The Legends of Black Music

[TerpWomenFan]

Since this the last weekend on Black Music Month, let me know who you consider legends of black music. I'll start out with three of them and we'll work from there.

From my hometown of Washington, DC.

 

[TerpWomenFan]

Best R&B band of all time.

 

[TerpWomenFan]

Great saxophonist Grover Washington.

 

[64Zcode]

RIP Tina

 

[CONN78SEJ]

Billie Holliday

 

[FeloniousMonk]

The one and only

 

[FeloniousMonk]

The inimitable Bob Marley

 

[CONN78SEJ]

Nat King Cole

 

[CONN78SEJ]

Otis Redding

 

[Waquoit]

 

[Carnac]

The incomparable Lena Horne (1917-2010)

 

[Kaizen]

 

[Kaizen]

 

[Kaizen]

 

[Kaizen]

 

[AgStatesman]

My first instinct was to go with My Ding a ling but this one seems more appropriate for the gravitas of the thread.

 

[AgStatesman]

Okay - Here's a second one - because Ive said for years that if reincarnation were a thing I want to come back as a Spinner!

 

[Kaizen]

 

[Kaizen]

 

[Waquoit]

Okay - Here's a second one - because Ive said for years that if reincarnation were a thing I want to come back as a Spinner!

Live, not lip-synched!

 

[Carnac]

Nancy Wilson - Song stylist and jazz vocalist (1937-2018)

 

[FeloniousMonk]

Lester Young

 

[Kaizen]

One of my favorite song.

 

[FeloniousMonk]

The Temptations

 

[TerpWomenFan]

 

[TerpWomenFan]

 

[TerpWomenFan]

 

[meyers7]

Cult of Personality - Living Colour

 

[TerpWomenFan]

 

[meyers7]

Fly Away - Lenny Kravitz