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Meditations on Black music & more by writer/photographer Craig Seymour

Author: Craig Seymour

March 2, 2002March 24, 2019

AN APPRECIATION: LEFT EYE’S LEGACY: More than music, it was the painful truths she told

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March 1, 2002March 8, 2017

Dawn Robinson, Funky Diva (interview)

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February 26, 2002November 2, 2018

Steps to Stankonia: OutKast’s hard work and careful cultivation of an audience have led to unprecedented​ Grammy nominations

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February 7, 2002November 18, 2018

The Enduring love songs of Ashford & Simpson (Interview)

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February 1, 2002March 8, 2017

The New Sound of R&B (interview)

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December 15, 2001June 28, 2020

Best of 2001 [Excerpt]

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November 5, 2001March 9, 2017

Faith Evans – Faithfully (review)

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October 30, 2001July 26, 2022

Destiny’s Child’s – 8 Days Of Christmas (Article & Audio)

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October 28, 2001November 18, 2018

Quincy Jones – Q: The Autobiography of Quincy Jones (Book Review)

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Bio

Craig Seymour is an acclaimed journalist who has been writing about music—mostly black music—for more than two decades. He has written for The Washington Post, Entertainment Weekly, Vibe, Paste, Spin, and other publications. He has also served as Pop Music Critic for The Buffalo News and The Atlanta Journal-Constitution.

He is the author of the biography Luther: The Life and Longing of Luther Vandross (HarperCollins, 2004), which was nominated for Best Biography by the Georgia Writers Association and Best Research in Recorded Rhythm & Blues, Soul or Gospel Music by the Association for Recorded Sound Research.

His journalistic research materials are housed as “The Craig Seymour Collection” at Indiana University's Archives of African American Music and Culture.

He wrote his first music review at age 13, while a correspondent for Newsbag, a children’s television show on WTTG in his hometown of Washington, D.C. The review was a rave of Afrika Bambaataa and the Soulsonic Force’s “Planet Rock,” which is now acknowledged as an electro hip-hop classic. Unfortunately, producers would only let him play the instrumental on-air for fear that rapping would alienate the audience.

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