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Meditations on Black music & more by Craig Seymour

July 14, 2003August 19, 2020

Christina Aguilera, Justin Timberlake (Review)

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July 10, 2003March 10, 2017

The Best of Erykah Badu (review)

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July 6, 2003March 9, 2017

Monica’s new album is a smash, but getting there was a long, hard road (interview)

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June 24, 2003March 7, 2017

Beyoncé – Dangerously in Love (review)

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June 19, 2003March 10, 2017

Aretha Franklin, Beyond Her Greatest Hits

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June 1, 2003November 18, 2018

Then and now, The Isley Brothers find the groove; Soul singers adapt, endure; latest album soars on chart

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May 22, 2003October 27, 2018

Poet, novelist returns to stage; Ntozake Shange premieres ‘Lavender Lizards’

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May 14, 2003March 10, 2017

3 Questions with Etta James (interview)

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April 23, 2003March 10, 2017

Nina Simone (1933 – 2003), An Appreciation

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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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