Check out who is in this week’s My Mini Concert. You can hear the My Mini Concert M – F at 11 a.m. on My927Charlotte.com. Wanna host your own mini concert? Send us an email to my927charlotte@gmail.com with your artist suggestions, including four of the artists’ songs you would like to hear during the mini […]
As lifelong devotees to Prince’s music, we can’t help but get a little excited whenever a new Prince song drops, even if we know that we’re gonna be anywhere from slightly to very disappointed in the song.
Neyo, the Isley Brothers and Keith Sweat make appearances in the My Mini Concert this week. We also have a special My Mini Concert compliments of Mr. It Takes Two, Rob Base. Check it out M – F at 11 a.m. on My927Charlotte.com. Wanna host your own mini concert? Send us an email to my927charlotte@gmail.com […]
VIA: Majic 107.5 Legendary musician Sheila E dropped by Majic 107.5 / 97.5 recently and spoke with Carol Blackmon. The two chopped it up about why Sheila E didn’t take part in the Prince tribute at the 2010 BET Awards, and Sheila E also remembered her very first time meeting Prince. Check it out below!
VIA: TheUrbanDaily.com On August 3, 1983, Prince played a benefit concert at First Avenue, the Minneapolis club he would immortalize a year later in his film Purple Rain. That same night, Prince debuted several new songs that would appear on the soundtrack to that film. When the Purple Rain album was released, three of the […]
VIA: GiantMag.com Miss B says she was all nerves the first time she performed with the Purple One himself- Prince. In this historic interview by editor Scott Poulson-Bryant for the re-launch issue of GIANT magazine with BEYONCE KNOWLES, the diva talks about her first time sharing a stage with Prince while rehearsing with the Grammys.
If you could meet any singer – dead or alive – who would you want to meet? Why? Would love to meet Prince. He can play ANY instrument but still allows for others to be featured on his work. He has total control but still invites people in. What song brings back the most memories […]
Our own Frankie Stone talks about her favorite songs and artists. If you could meet any singer – dead or alive – who would you want to meet? Why? Prince, Gerald Levert, and Frankie Beverly. They would be some icons that could share some great stories. What song brings back the most memories for you? […]
My92.7 radio host Patrick Cannon is also the city council’s mayor pro tem. Cannon has been a longtime fixture in Charlotte’s face. We wrap up Black Music Month by occasionally highlight My92.7 radio personalities and deejays. Negro spirituals provided the soundtrack of the civil rights movement. What do you listen to you to inspire you […]
jungle boogie (jungle –oft attrib to Hindi jangal + boogie – prob alter of bogle – goblin, object of fear) a 1974 hit by Kool & the Gang, frequently sampled by hip-hop artists, perhaps the funkiest piece of music ever recorded.
Jermaine Nakia Lee is fixture on Charlotte’s creative arts scene. In the past seven years, he’s written, directed or starred in plays that highlight devastation of AIDS in the black community, police brutality and highlighting artists from the Harlem Renaissance. He most recently starred in “Tribe,” a play about a single black mother struggling to […]
On the extended version of his 1988 single “I Wish U Heaven,” Prince sang “Take this beat / I don’t mind / Got plenty others / and they’re so fine!”
