Jayne Cortez wrote and spoke with an uncompromising strength all her personal. Acerbic, hard-hitting, unsentimental, and scathingly honest, she experienced a undertake reality so powerful — and also pungent — that lots of poets might seem benign as well as superficial in comparison. The music artists with whom she aligned …

b. Tamara Drasin, c.1910, Sorochintzy, Ukraine, d. 22 Feb 1943, near Lisbon, Portugal. Educated primarily in america, Tamara appeared within the revue THE BRAND NEW Yorkers (1927, not really the Cole Porter display) and is at Crazy Quilt (which starred Fanny Brice) and Free of charge FOR THOSE (both 1931), …

If you’re searching for the music group with minimal street credibility on the planet, whose name alone makes people cringe, then search no further than Black Lace, the same as the naughty seaside postcard, who record nearly every track, whatever harm it did with their image. These were formed like …

Bernard Edwards’ supple, big-bottom basslines powered platinum strikes by Chic, the ’70s dance/pop music group that he co-founded with guitarist/songwriter/maker Nile Rodgers. The group obtained three precious metal singles and something platinum solitary including two number 1 pop/R&B singles, “Le Freak” and “MEMORIES”; two platinum albums, C’est Chic and Risque; …