Later today I'll be taking a refesher course so that I can maintain my Doctorate of Funkology. Yep, I'm a serious Funkateer. and th...

(photo-painting Mother's Love by Kolongi) Happy Mother's Day to all the mothers (and 'errbody' else) who read TransGriot! ...

Today would have been the 75th birthday for the 'Godfather of Soul'. He unfortunately left us on Christmas Day 2006, but he's...

I've always loved Mariah Carey's five octave voice and music ever since her self-titled debut CD dropped in 1990, and many of them g...

Every time I hear the song Angels We Have Heard On High during the holidays, I start chuckling to myself and my mind drifts back to a Chris...

Zulu Boy Returns As Drag-Queen Diva from the SA Times Johannesburg, South Africa by Biénne Huisman Published: Dec 22, 2007 Talented Sfiso i...

I love Anita Baker and can listen to her music for hours (especially when she puts new stuff out, hint hint.) But there's one song of he...

One aspect of Christmas I enjoy is getting to hear all of my favorite Christmas songs with soul. Whether it's Nat 'King' Cole...

TransGriot Note: Whenever I get in a militant mood (which this ENDA bullcrap has me in right now), I pull out my Isley Brothers CD along wit...

"If people are ready for white rappers, then they are ready for me," 22 year old Keva Jackson, AKA Foxxjazell is determined to pr...

I wrote earlier this month in a post that Black music is a powerful, multi-generational, creative force. Black music is also a powerful for...

Monday, June 25, 2007 By: Patrice Gaines From BlackAmericaWeb.com Right smack in the middle of the discussion about old school versus new sc...

Blackamewricaweb.com in honor of Black Music Month has been doing an exclusive series of articles on the twenty people who changed Black mus...

I was introduced to this talented artist by one of the members on my Transistahs-Transbrothas group. Tia had adopted Elisabeth's song ...

One staple of Black music over the decades has been the slammin' instrumental tracks that populated many R&B records over the 60'...

photos-Duke Ellington, Denyce Graves, 'Jimmy Jam' Harris and Terry Lewis Since 1979 the month of June has been celebrated as Black ...

With all the negativity that April 20 is associated with in terms of the Columbine High School shooting in Littleton, Colorado and it being ...

One of the things that I was amused and pissed to hear during the whole Don Imus flap was the pathetic attempts of conservatives to shift th...

I've come to praise disco, not bury it like the 'disco sucks' haters tried to do back in the day. I'm one of those peeps who...

One of my favorite songs is Angel of the Night by Angela Bofill. For those of you who were toddlers during the 70's or weren't eve...