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

Author: Craig Seymour

August 27, 2002June 28, 2020

Independent Chicks Flex Their Muscle (Interview)

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August 22, 2002November 25, 2021

The Last Waltz (Movie Review)

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August 12, 2002November 18, 2018

WAS Elvis Presley RACIST?

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August 1, 2002March 10, 2017

Guardian Angel: Aaliyah (Anniversary Tribute)

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July 30, 2002April 6, 2020

Karen Clark-Sheard – 2nd Chance (Review)

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July 21, 2002October 17, 2020

DOLLY PARTON: Crossover icon keeps her music & life grounded in mountains of Tennessee

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July 16, 2002March 10, 2017

3 Questions with Mary J. Blige (interview)

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July 16, 2002April 6, 2020

Jerzee Monét – Love and War (Review)

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July 14, 2002November 18, 2018

‘Dreamgirls’ still speaks to outsiders

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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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