Tag Archives: 1991 in Oakland

Bay Area local Devon Baldwin is a vocalist/songwriter who all creates dreamy, sensuous pop music with forward-thinking electronic creation. The little girl of Windham Hill Information manufacturer Dawn Atkinson, Baldwin was raised singing, participating in music classes at personal college Marin Academy and documenting Kelly Clarkson-like pop/rock and roll music …

b. 1913, Marlin, Tx, USA, d. 16 Feb 1991, Oakland, California, USA. A dark entrepreneur, Geddins controlled some labels in the late 40s, documenting blues and gospel in the Bay Region. Missing capital and distribution, he previously to rent his recordings to bigger labels; if popular resulted, the performers were …

East Oakland’s Souls of Mischief are users from the loose underground hip-hop consortium referred to as Hieroglyphics. The group includes four erudite but hardcore MCs — A-Plus, Phesto, Opio, and Tajai — whose way of thinking combines chaos, risk, as well as the avant-garde, all from an intellectual B-Boy perspective. …