Haven’t been this impressed with a new singer since Susan Boyle – but this time she sings in my preferred genre, Soul.
The proof of her talent is in her stunning acapella performances.
And get a load of the dude who backs her up with his human rhythm section.
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11:11 11/11 1918 ARMISTICE DAY
Honoring those who served
in the War to End All Wars
11:11 11/11 2009 VETERANS DAY
Honoring those who served
in all the wars that followed
“Patriots always talk of dying for their country and never of killing for their country.
- Bertrand Russell“
Older men declare war.
But [...]
Five months ago we were swept up by the Susan Boyle drama; chronicling the surprise, the controversy, and the pure musical pleasure. My last words regarding Miss Boyle were, “I am sure the world will hear much more from the Scottish songbird.”
And so we have. Tuesday night she stole the show on America’s Got Talent [...]
Iran, we have not forgotten you. The excitement of the election aftermath has given way to the fear of official reprisals but James McConnell brings us a reprise of those brave moments with his inspiring music.
Paul Hipp, modern day Billy Joel cum Weird Al Yankovic, rocks American Health Care paranoia. Huffington Post alerted me to this gem, but Google didn’t produce the fast and furious lyrics — so I did my best to transcribe them as I hear them. No health insurance? No problem. Paul fills in with the healing [...]
More music from Iran, this time from Iranian-Texan Fared Shafinury as he wanders the streets of Tehran strumming on his setar, singing what sounds more like praises for the city than a rage against its politics.
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INTERVIEW WITH HUFFINGTON POST’S DIANE TUCKER
It’s space week! Today we Earthlings celebrated the fortieth anniversary of the first real Moon walk and an epic total eclipse of the sun — totally hidden from our view by a thick blanket of rain clouds! Now I can only hope I can afford to sail the South Pacific in July, 2010 [...]
We Americans honor our French friends by remembering la Bastille while forgetting la Terreur; we honor our own patriots by celebrating the Declaration of Independence while denying the purge of the Tories; and yet, there are few who can even recall Russia’s Kerensky, while all loathe Lenin!
However terrible tyranny may be,
its greatest terrors await [...]
“To arms citizens Form your battalions
March, march
Let impure blood
Water our furrows”
CLICK THE COCKADE FOR THE FULL ENGLISH TRANSLATION OF THE LYRICS
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U2 continues to sing out against war and oppression. Inspired by the slaughter in Derry, Northern Ireland on Sunday, 30 January, 1972, the legendary band now directs their powerful cry against the tyranny in Tehran.
On 7/7, as we in Japan celebrated the romantic reunion of Ori Hime and Hikoboshi in the heavens, the [...]
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