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

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April 1, 2006March 8, 2017

Jaheim – Rising Son (interview)

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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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February 1, 2003March 8, 2017

Dru Hill, Strength in Numbers (interview)

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October 1, 2002March 8, 2017

Monica, Pain is Love (interview)

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March 21, 2002March 9, 2017

‘Pivotal time’ for musical muse Joi (interview)

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March 6, 2002March 8, 2017

Singer goes from ‘failure’ to success; Atlanta’s Tweet chronicles struggles in ‘Hummingbird’ (interview)

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March 1, 2002March 8, 2017

Dawn Robinson, Funky Diva (interview)

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February 1, 2002March 8, 2017

The New Sound of R&B (interview)

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August 1, 2001March 8, 2017

Shorty Hard Rock: Lil’ Mo (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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