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

January 7, 2007August 1, 2021

Monica in NYC (photo)

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September 1, 2006March 18, 2017

Janet Jackson, Crazy in Love (interview)

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April 1, 2006March 8, 2017

Jaheim – Rising Son (interview)

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October 1, 2005March 18, 2017

Luther Vandross (1951 – 2005), A Tribute

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March 23, 2005March 8, 2017

A Song For Her: Lalah Hathaway (interview)

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March 2, 2005August 1, 2021

Bettye Swann – Bettye Swann (Review)

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March 1, 2005August 1, 2021

Joi – Tennessee Slim Is The Bomb (Review)

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November 1, 2004July 10, 2021

Jill Scott – Beautifully Human: Words & Sounds, Vol. 2 (Review)

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October 14, 2004March 18, 2017

Woman on Fire: Chaka Khan (interview)

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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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