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Lady Wray: Tiny Desk Concert Hotney 6 Streams • 4 years ago

This year's Black History Month celebration at the Tiny Desk features a carefully crafted lineup spanning many genres, generations and walks of life. Each artist represents the best in their class and will be performing at the Tiny Desk for the first time.

Bobby Carter | February 1, 2023
This year's Black History Month celebration at the Tiny Desk features a carefully crafted lineup spanning many genres, generations and walks of life. Each artist represents the best in their class and will be performing at the Tiny Desk for the first time.

As Lady Wray and her band checked into NPR headquarters for their Tiny Desk concert, I overheard her talking about how the excitement to perform kept her up all night. Once upstairs, the band got situated for soundcheck, and as she shook off the nervousness, something happened behind the Desk I'd never heard before. The first note from her mouth was so piercing I thought my ears were deceiving me. It sounded like she was singing through a loudspeaker. Bob Boilen walked over with a puzzled look, and before I could get a word out, I affirmed that we had just heard Lady Wray's natural vocal cords. "And that's light," she said as the band moved on to the next song.

That powerful voice has sustained Nicole Wray's decades-long career. As a teenager, she caught the attention of fellow Virginia natives Missy Elliott and Timbaland, lending vocals to their projects and releasing a hit of her own. She went on to work with other A-listers ranging from Jay-Z to The Black Keys, until she linked up with singer Terri Walker and formed the duo Lady in 2012. The pair split following a brief stint but Wray carried on the band name, prepending it to her own, and began making the music she was born to do solo with Big Crown records.

For her Tiny Desk, Lady Wray brought the classic soul from her last two albums, Queen Alone and Piece of Me, including "Joy & Pain" and "Guilty." She closed with a rearranged and emotional version of "Melody," named after her daughter.

SET LIST
"Piece Of Me"
"Joy & Pain"
"Guilty"
"Melody"

MUSICIANS
Lady Wray: vocals
Lola Adanna: vocals
JT: keys, vocals
Eric Hagstrom: drums
Kevin Martin: guitar
Tony Martin: bass

TINY DESK TEAM
Producer: Bobby Carter
Directors: Sofia Seidel, Kara Frame
Audio Engineer: Josh Rogosin
Videographers: Sofia Seidel, Joshua Bryant, Kara Frame, Maia Stern
Editor: Maia Stern
Audio Assistant: Jay Czys
Production Assistant: Jill Britton
Tiny Desk Team: Suraya Mohamed, Marissa Lorusso, Hazel Cills, Ashley Pointer
VP, Visuals and Music: Keith Jenkins
Senior VP, Programming: Anya Grundmann

#ladywray #nprmusic #tinydesk

Empire Of The Sun - High And Low (Official Video) Hotney 7 Streams • 2 years ago

Buy, Download or Stream High and Low by Empire of the Sun taken from the album Two Vines: https://EmpireOfTheSun.lnk.to/TwoVines
Subscribe to the official Empire of the Sun YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/user/E....mpireOfTheSunSound?s

Follow Empire of the Sun on:
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/empireofthesun/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/EmpireOfTheSun
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/empireofthesunsound/
Official Website: http://empireofthesun.com/

Lyrics:
[Verse 1]
Now we are running in a pack to the place you don't know
And I want you to know that I'll always be around
Down where the summer and the late nights last forever
There's a house on the hill and we can't travel now

[Pre-Chorus]
Alice D you’re on your way up
Way up
Way up

[Chorus]
I feel most times we're high and low (high and low)
If I had my way, never let you go (never let you go)
I feel most times we're high and low (high and low)
If I had my way, never let you go (never let you go)

[Verse 2]
Let's get together and forget all the troubles and just float
I don't want you to go
I need to be closer to now

[Pre-Chorus]
Alice D you’re on your way up
Way up
Way up

[Chorus]
I feel most times we're high and low (high and low)
If I had my way, never let you go (never let you go)
I feel most times we're high and low (high and low)
If I had my way, never let you go (never let you go)

[Bridge]
Alice D is on her way home
She's been out all night again
She don't want nobody's help now
She sees stars and rocket ships

[Chorus - fade out]
I feel most times we're high and low (high and low)
If I had my way, never let you go (never let you go)
I feel most times we're high and low (high and low)
If I had my way, never let you go (never let you go)
I feel most times we're high and low (high and low)
If I had my way, never let you go (never let you go)
I feel most times we're high and low (high and low)
If I had my way, never let you go (never let you go)

Video Credits:
CGI/Art Direction – Roof Studios
Post Facility - Sunset & RCO
Editor - Bill Yukich
Producer & Director – Empire of the Sun

Producer(s): Empire of the Sun; Peter Mayes; Donnie Sloan

Songwriters: Luke Steele / Nick Littlemore / Peter Mayes / Jonathan Sloan
High and Low lyrics © Universal Music Publishing Group, BMG Rights Management US, LLC
Two Vines is the third studio album by Australian electronic music duo Empire of the Sun
Music video by Empire Of The Sun performing High And Low. (C) 2016 The Sleepy Jackson Pty Ltd and Nick Littlemore, under exclusive licence to Universal Music Australia Pty Ltd

Diamond D And The Psychotic Neurotics - Sally Got A One Track Mind Hotney 4 Streams • 3 years ago

From 1992 Album: "Stunts, Blunts & Hip Hop.....

Diamond D's Myspace:
http://www.myspace.com/therealdiamondd

Get Diamond D's Music:
http://www.amazon.com/Diamond/....e/B000AQ0ND8/ref=ntt
&
http://itunes.apple.com/WebObj....ects/MZStore.woa/wa/

Diamond D is a hip hop producer and MC from The Bronx, New York City and one of the founding members of legendary NY crew D.I.T.C. He started out as a DJ for Jazzy Jay back in the early 1980s and was at the same time perfecting his skills in beat making and turntableism, and together with rhyme partner MC Rob he was one half of the group Ultimate Force. The group got signed by Jazzy Jay and Diamond and Rob started recording their debut album in 1988 and released the 12" single "I'm Not Playing" which spawned a buzz in the underground. The album with the same title was completed in 1990 but eventually got scrapped by the label and didn't see a release until 2007.

One of the songs recorded for the album was a Diamond D solo song where he actually picked up the mic for the first time, the song was called "The Best Kept Secret". As Ultimate Force dissolved record executives got their eyes on the Bronx phenomenon which eventually resulted in the release of Diamond's debut album Stunts, Blunts and Hip Hop (released under the moniker Diamond & the Psychotic Neurotics) in 1992. The album is considered to be one of the finest D.I.T.C. solo LPs and features early appearances from Big L and Fat Joe, the latter of whose 1993 debut album, Represent, was produced by Diamond D.

Diamond's sop****re release, Hatred, Passions and Infidelity, was released in 1997 to critical acclaim, and since then he released the independent album Grown Man Talk and the official mixtape/compilation The Diamond Mine. Diamond has also produced tracks for a wide range of hip-hop legends such as Fugees, The Pharcyde, A Tribe Called Quest, KRS-One, Brand Nubian, and contributions to his D.I.T.C. cohorts' projects including the crew's self-titled 2000 debut album on Tommy Boy/Warner Bros. Records.

In 2008 Diamond signed with Babygrande Records. His fourth album, called The Huge Hefner Chronicles, was released in October 2008, which featured production from Illmind, Nottz, Jake One, and Diamond himself.

Extended & updated info here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diamond_D

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