Song of the day:
Please give this man the Oscar.
Wayback Wednesday
Black History Month
Dubbed “Hip-Hop’s First Godmother” by Billboard, singer and music producer Sylvia Robinson produced the first-ever commercially successful rap record: “Rapper’s Delight,” by the Sugar Hill Gang. And along with her husband, she co-owned the first hip-hop label, Sugar Hill Records.
Renowned singer and jazz pianist Nat King Cole was the first Black American to host a TV show: NBC’s The Nat King Cole Show.
Stevie Wonder is not only the first Black artist to win a Grammy for Album of the Year, for 1973’s Innervisions, but the first and only musician to win Album of the Year with three consecutive studio albums.
And in more recent Black history…
Ahmaud Arbery was murdered while jogging on this day just two years ago.
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