#Julie Tharp

[billboard-hotties-tourney]

Okay, folks, the mini-tourney is inching closer to the finals, so I'm going to give a list of the competitors in the Miss Billboard Tourney in order to give everyone a chance to submit more propaganda. The nominees are:

Lale Andersen

Marian Anderson

Signe Toly Anderson

Julie Andrews

LaVerne Andrews

Maxene Andrews

Patty Andrews

Ann-Margret

Joan Armatrading

Dorothy Ashby

Joan Baez

Pearl Bailey

Belle Baker

Josephine Baker

LaVern Baker

Florence Ballard

Brigitte Bardot

Eileen Barton

Fontella Bass

Shirley Bassey

Maggie Bell

Lola Beltran

Ivy Benson

Gladys Bentley

Jane Birkin

Cilla Black

Ronee Blakley

Teresa Brewer

Anne Briggs

Ruth Brown

Joyce Bryant

Vashti Bunyan

Kate Bush

Montserrat Caballe

Maria Callas

Blanche Calloway

Wendy Carlos

Cathy Carr

Raffaella Carra

Diahann Carroll

Karen Carpenter

June Carter Cash

Charo

Cher

Meg Christian

Gigliola Cinquetti

Petula Clark

Merry Clayton

Patsy Cline

Rosemary Clooney

Natalie Cole

Judy Collins

Alice Coltrane

Betty Comden

Barbara Cook

Rita Coolidge

Gal Costa

Ida Cox

Karen Dalton

Marie-Louise Damien

Betty Davis

Jinx Dawson

Doris Day

Blossom Dearie

Kiki Dee

Lucienne Delyle

Sandy Denny

Jackie DeShannon

Gwen Dickey

Marlene Dietrich

Marie-France Dufour

Julie Driscoll

Yvonne Elliman

Cass Elliot

Maureen Evans

Agnetha Faeltskog

Marianne Faithfull

Mimi Farina

Max Feldman

Gracie Fields

Ella Fitzgerald

Roberta Flack

Lita Ford

Connie Francis

Aretha Franklin

France Gall

Judy Garland

Crystal Gayle

Gloria Gaynor

Bobbie Gentry

Astrud Gilberto

Donna Jean Godchaux

Lesley Gore

Eydie Gorme

Margo Guryan

Sheila Guyse

Nina Hagen

Francoise Hardy

Emmylou Harris

Debbie Harry

Annie Haslam

Billie Holiday

Mary Hopkin

Lena Horne

Helen Humes

Betty Hutton

Janis Ian

Mahalia Jackson

Wanda Jackson

Etta James

Joan Jett

Bessie Jones

Etta Jones

Gloria Jones

Grace Jones

Shirley Jones

Tamiko Jones

Janis Joplin

Barbara Keith

Carole King

Eartha Kitt

Chaka Khan

Hildegard Knef

Gladys Knight

Sonja Kristina

Patti Labelle

Cleo Laine

Nicolette Larson

Daliah Lavi

Vicky Leandros

Peggy Lee

Rita Lee

Alis Lesley

Barbara Lewis

Abbey Lincoln

Melba Liston

Julie London

Darlene Love

Lulu

Anni-Frid Lyngstad

Barbara Lynn

Loretta Lynn

Vera Lynn

Siw Malmkvist

Lata Mangeshkar

Linda McCartney

Kate McGarrigle

Christie McVie

Bette Midler

Jean Millington

June Millington

Liza Minnelli

Carmen Miranda

Joni Mitchell

Liz Mitchell

Marion Montgomery

Lee Morse

Nana Mouskouri

Anne Murray

Wenche Myhre

Holly Near

Olivia Newton-John

Stevie Nicks

Nico

Laura Nyro

Virginia O’Brien

Odetta

Yoko Ono

Shirley Owens

Patti Page

Dolly Parton

Freda Payne

Michelle Phillips

Edith Piaf

Ruth Pointer

Leontyne Price

Suzi Quatro

Gertrude Rainey

Bonnie Raitt

Carline Ray

Helen Reddy

Della Reese

Martha Reeves

June Richmond

Jeannie C. Riley

Minnie Riperton

Jean Ritchie

Chita Rivera

Clara Rockmore

Linda Ronstadt

Marianne Rosenberg

Diana Ross

Anna Russell

Melanie Safka

Buffy Sainte-Marie

Samantha Sang

Pattie Santos

Hazel Scott

Doreen Shaffer

Jackie Shane

Marlena Shaw

Sandie Shaw

Dinah Shore

Judee Sill

Carly Simon

Nina Simone

Nancy Sinatra

Siouxsie Sioux

Grace Slick

Bessie Smith

Mamie Smith

Patti Smith

Ethel Smyth

Mercedes Sosa

Ronnie Spector

Dusty Springfield

Mavis Staples

Candi Staton

Barbra Streisand

Poly Styrene

Maxine Sullivan

Donna Summer

Pat Suzuki

Norma Tanega

Tammi Terrell

Sister Rosetta Tharpe

Big Mama Thornton

Mary Travers

Moe Tucker

Tina Turner

Twiggy

Bonnie Tyler

Sylvia Tyson

Sarah Vaughan

Sylvie Vartan

Mariska Veres

Akiko Wada

Claire Waldoff

Jennifer Warnes

Dee Dee Warwick

Dionne Warwick

Dinah Washington

Ethel Waters

Elisabeth Welch

Kitty Wells

Mary Wells

Juliane Werding

Tina Weymouth

Cris Williamson

Ann Wilson

Mary Wilson

Nancy Wilson

Anna Mae Winburn

Syreeta Wright

Tammy Wynette

Nan Wynn

Those in italics have five or more pieces of usable visual, written, or audio propaganda already. If you have any visuals like photos or videos, or if you have something to say in words, submit it to this blog before round one begins on June 25th!

If you don't see a name you submitted here, it's because most or all of their career was as a child/they were too young for the cutoff, their career was almost entirely after 1979, or music was something they only dabbled in and are hardly known for. There are quite a few ladies on the list whose primary career wasn't "recording artist" or "live musician," but released several albums or were in musical theater, so they've been accepted.

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Luis Russell / Sister Rosetta Tharpe (January 1945)

Billie Holliday (January 21-28, 1950)

Cab Calloway (January 1, 1951)

Duke Ellington (January 12-19, 1952)

Louis Jordan (May 4-12, 1956) / Count Basie (May 18, 1956)

Dinah Washington (June 26-28, 1956) / Little Richard (July 20-21, 1956)

Ike Turner (May 25, 1957)

Little Willie John (June 20-22, 1957)

Ray Charles (January 10-11, 1958)

B.B. King (August 22-32, 1958)

Jackie Wilson (February 26-27, 1960)

Etta James & Elmore James ( April 30, 1960)

Bobby "Blue Bland / Little Jr. Parker (April 7, 1961)

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Here's my list of forgotten/cool women from history. Please take it, reblog it with more, spread it, learn about them, make books about them:

Lucy (slave used for experimentations on the uterus)

Nightwitches from WW2

Grace Hopper

Mary Anning

Maria Mitchell

Ada Lovelace

Kate Warne

Agnes Barre

Flora Tristan

Olympe de Gouges

Eleanor Roosevelt

Bessie Smith

Sylvia Plath

Sweet Tee

Lady D (the rapper)

The Sequence

Lady B

Rachel Carson

Baya

Tahireh

Lalla Fatma N'Soumer

Rosalind Franklin

Miriam Makeba

Alexandra David Néel

Suzanne Noël

Helena Rubinstein

Katherine Switzer

Jeanne Barret

Sophie Germain

Katherine Johnson

Margaret Hamilton

Hedy Lamarr

Betty Snyder Holberton

Kathleen McNulty Mauchly Antonelli

Marilyn Wescoff Meltzer

Frances Bilas Spence

Ruth Lichteman Teitelbaum og Jean Jennings Bartik

Valerie Thomas

Karen Sparck Jones

Dr Shirley Ann Jackson

Radia Perlman

Stacy Horn

Dr Betty Harris

Beulah Louise Henry

Elizabeth "Jake" Feinler

Empress Zenobia of the Palmyrene Empire

Surya Bonaly

Dolly Parton

Mary Wollstonecraft

Mary Shelley

Queen Nzinga of Ndongo Kingdom

Queen Yaa Asantewa Ashanti

Empress Candace of Ethiopia

Queen Sarraounia Mangou of Aznas Kingdom

Dona Beatriz

Mileva Marić

Matoaka

Janet Sobel

Claudette Colvin

Marsha P. Johnson

Marian Anderson

Madam CJ Walker

Frida Kahlo

Mirka Mora

Dahomey Amazons

The 40 Elephants

Diamond Alice

Maggie Bailey

Julie d'Aubigny

Bessie Coleman

Policarpa Salavarrieta

Annie Oakley

Anna Julia Cooper

Sojourner Truth

Ida B. Wells

Shirley Chisholm

Mary Church Terrell

Audre Lorde

Harriet Tubman

Maria W. Stewart

Angela Davis

Florynce Kennedy

Jocelyn Bell

Alice Ball

Lise Meitner

Chien Shiung Wu

Marie Tharp

Elizabeth Blackwell

Amanirenas

Wu Zetian

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Merce Cunningham, April 16, 1919 – July 26, 2009.

On the far left with fellow choreographers Twyla Tharp, Martha Graham, and José Limon (front row), Erick Hawkins, Paul Taylor, Yvonne Rainer, and Don Redlich (back row) at Graham’s Manhattan studio. 1968 photo by Jack Mitchell.

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tagged by @alientiime !!

Last song: uhhh OH i miss 2003 by as it is bc i forgot my phone when we drove to insomnia cookies and that cd was what was in my radio lol

Last movie: we JUST re-watched nimona!!! and yesterday we watched fantastic mr. fox!!! as for first time watches, uhh the barbie movie i think, a week or two ago :D

Currently watching: star trek original series rewatch; banana fish for the first time (only 2 eps in)

Currently reading: priory of the orange tree for book-books; blue lock on a weekly manga basis

Currently craving: mmm nothing rlly, we got ice cream tonight n had chinese food n those are the 2 things i usually crave. A Hug perhaps LMAO

Last thing you researched for writing purposes: this culture festival that happens in madrid in june/july called veranos de la villa (actually, yesterday i was researching sister rosetta tharpe for an essay i was writing, but i'm taking this question to mean research for fun writing purposes)

tagging: let's keep the alien gang going @geometricalien (also gonna tag @depressed-n-stuff and @kae-karo bc i can never tag just one person slkdfjdlskfj)

[glorioustidalwavedefendor]

Marie Tharp (July 30, 1920 – August 23, 2006) was an American geologist and oceanographic cartographer. In the 1950s, she collaborated with geologist Bruce Heezen to produce the first scientific map of the Atlantic Ocean floor.[1] Her cartography revealed a more detailed topography and multi-dimensional geographical landscape of the ocean bottom.[2]

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From Memphis To Merseyside Ep 91

Thursdays 8pm EST bombshellradio.com From Memphis To Merseyside The Big Bang Ep. 91 July 5, 1954…Elvis Presley, Bill Black and Scotty Moore stumble upon a new sound, a glorious accident. This episode, Tony Stuart and Aaron Badgley set the scene for Elvis anad his band and explore the influences that went into Elvis becoming Elvis. #RockandRoll #Blues #Jazz #Country #Gospel 1. Ric Denis - This Rumbling Sky 2. Arthur ‘Big Boy’ Crudup - That’s All Right 3. Big Mama Thornton - Hound Dog 4. Fats Domino - The Fat Man 5. Bing Crosby - Chattanoogie Shoe Shine Boy 6. Patti Page - (How Much is) That Doggie In The Window 7. Little Richard - Please Have Mercy On Me 8. Les Paul & Mary Ford - Vaya Con Dios 9. Perry Como - Don’t Let The Stars Get in Your Eyes 10. Bessie Smith - I’m Wild About That Thing 11. Louis Jordan - Choo Choo -Ch-Boogie 12. Louis Jordan - Saturday Night Fish Fry 13. Joe Turner - Shake Rattle and Roll 14. Wynonie Harris - There’s Good Rockin’ Tonight 15. Erline Harris - Rock and Roll Blues 16. Billy Ward and the Dominoes - Sixty Minute Man 17. Eddy Arnold - Bouquet of Roses 18. Jimmy Wakely - One Has My Name (The Other Has My Heart) 19. Hank Williams & His Drifting Cowboys - Lovesick Blues 20. Hank Snow - I’m Moving On 21. Tennessee Ernie Ford - Shotgun Boogie 22. Lefty Frizzell - Always Late With Your Kisses 23. Sister Bessie Griffin - I Sing Because I Am Free 24. Mahalia Jackson - Move On Up A Little Higher (Part 1) 25. Sister Rosetta Tharpe - Strange Things Happening Every Day 26. Jackie Brenston & His Delta Cats - Rocket 88 27. Johnny London - Drivin’ Slow 28. Archie Bleyer - Hernado’s Hideaway 29. The Four Aces - Three Coins In The Fountain 30. Kitty Kallen - Little Things Mean A Lot 31. Bryan James Duffy - The Red Brick Road 32. Elvis Presley - That’s All Right Read the full article

[djlyer]

One Month Down, January 31, 2023

A sweet farewell to January, may there never be another like you.  These set lists have been so wonderful this far, looking forward to sharing more of my sweet scores in the coming months!

Sister Rosetta Tharpe - Up Above My Head I Hear Music in the Air -  Let That Liar Alone

Nic Dyson - Reflections EP - Stones 

Field Guide - Field Guide - Tupperware (Reimagined) 

Phil Collins - Face Value - The Roof is Leaking

Television - Marquee Moon - Prove It

The Tragically Hip- Phantom Power - Emperor Penguin

Arkells - Blink Twice - Take Back Everything 

Tanya Tagaq - Tongues North Star Remixes - In Me ( Paola Prestini Remix) 

July Talk- Remember Never Before - Repeat 

Super Duty Tough Work - Single - First Strike 

[blackcatvideo]

Madeline's Madeline @ the Capitol Theater

[genevieveetguy]

The emotions you are having are not your own. They are someone else's.

Madeline's Madeline, Josephine Decker (2018)

[billboard-hotties-tourney]

Round One Has Finished!

Well, everyone, we've just concluded the first round of the Miss Billboard Tourney. Thank you all for participating thus far! Congratulations to the following, who are advancing to Round Two:

Lale Andersen

Julie Andrews

Patty Andrews

Joan Armatrading

Dorothy Ashby

Joan Baez

Pearl Bailey

Josephine Baker

LaVern Baker

Florence Ballard

Eileen Barton

Shirley Bassey

Lola Beltran

Teresa Brewer

Anne Briggs

Ruth Brown

Joyce Bryant

Kate Bush

Maria Callas

Blanche Calloway

Wendy Carlos

Diahann Carroll

Karen Carpenter

Charo

Cher

Gigliola Cinquetti

Petula Clark

Merry Clayton

Patsy Cline

Judy Collins

Rita Coolidge

Gal Costa

Betty Davis

Doris Day

Lucienne Delyle

Jackie DeShannon

Marlene Dietrich

Julie Driscoll

Cass Elliot

Agnetha Faeltskog

Marianne Faithfull

Mimi Farina

Ella Fitzgerald

Roberta Flack

Connie Francis

Aretha Franklin

Judy Garland

Crystal Gayle

Gloria Gaynor

Bobbie Gentry

Lesley Gore

Eydie Gorme

Margo Guryan

Sheila Guyse

Annie Haslam

Billie Holiday

Betty Hutton

Wanda Jackson

Joan Jett

Etta Jones

Gloria Jones

Grace Jones

Janis Joplin

Eartha Kitt

Chaka Khan

Gladys Knight

Sonja Kristina

Patti Labelle

Cleo Laine

Barbara Lewis

Abbey Lincoln

Julie London

Anni-Frid Lyngstad

Loretta Lynn

Lata Mangeshkar

Linda McCartney

Christie McVie

Jean Millington

Liza Minnelli

Carmen Miranda

Stevie Nicks

Nico

Laura Nyro

Odetta

Patti Page

Dolly Parton

Freda Payne

Ruth Pointer

Leontyne Price

Suzi Quatro

Bonnie Raitt

Carline Ray

June Richmond

Jean Ritchie

Clara Rockmore

Linda Ronstadt

Diana Ross

Buffy Sainte-Marie

Hazel Scott

Marlena Shaw

Nina Simone

Nancy Sinatra

Grace Slick

Mamie Smith

Patti Smith

Mercedes Sosa

Ronnie Spector

Barbra Streisand

Poly Styrene

Maxine Sullivan

Donna Summer

Pat Suzuki

Tammi Terrell

Sister Rosetta Tharpe

Big Mama Thornton

Mary Travers

Tina Turner

Bonnie Tyler

Sarah Vaughan

Akiko Wada

Dionne Warwick

Mary Wells

Tina Weymouth

Cris Williamson

Ann Wilson

Mary Wilson

Nancy Wilson

Syreeta Wright

The aforementioned ladies are accepting propaganda for their next posts. To give folks some time to prepare any sort of written/visual/audio propaganda for submission to my asks, Round Two will begin at midnight PST on July 10th.

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Hey all:

Come visit my Spotify spot! Follow my creations + tell me what you think plz:

I've got playlists galore, from certain fandoms that sparked creativity. Some older as well as some newer ones.

I have: 5 X Men '97 ALSO

1 #12Monkeys, 2 #Lucifer, 3 #Fringe, and 1.5 #Syfy's Alice, 1 #Syfy's Tin Man, 10 #Charmed CW

[swanlake1998]

GoFundMe: Help Alycia Achieve Excellence

Hi my name is Alycia Williams and I am an aspiring 17 year old brown ballerina in Texas. I am currently training in the Professional Division Program at Ballet Academy North under the direction of Ms. Kelly Yankle. However, I was recently blessed with two amazing opportunities in an effort to pursue becoming and starting my career as a professional dancer. I was offered to attend the Twyla Tharp Dance Workshop in NYC this July. And I was also accepted into the United Ballet Theatre (UBT) Ballet Company in Orlando, FL as a Trainee/Apprentice this upcoming Fall 2021.

Over the years in hopes to become a professional dancer, I have been able to accomplish many of my dance goals such as attending YAGP Regionals & Finals, ADCIBC Regionals & Finals, ICON Awards, NYCDA, and many summer intensives such as Cincinnati Ballet Summer Intensive, Texas Ballet Theatre Summer Intensive, and Elite Classical Coaching Summer Intensive. And most recently, I attended Juilliard Summer Intensive which was one of the best experiences of my life.

In addition to those amazing opportunities, I have been offered and awarded several scholarships & admissions to many great ballet programs. But even with those offers and awards, there has always still been a great need for financial assistance in order for me to be able to achieve my dance goals as becoming a professional dancer. My parents have been beyond supportive and have exhausted all of their means of financing my dream. Unfortunately, my dad is the sole provider of our household due to my mom being permanently and totally disabled. So as my dad works extremely hard to provide for not only our entire household, he is working to contribute to my extracurricular activities in addition to my mom’s medical treatments and health needs.

Therefore, I am reaching out to my village and asking for any financial support and prayers that you may be able to bless me with as I try to embark on this journey that God has place before me. And if you can find it in your heart please share my story and pass it along per I would be forever grateful. There is no amount too small and any amount is definitely appreciated. And with all of your financial support, kind words and prayers then I will be successful in attending the dance workshop in NYC and moving to FL to further enhance my dance skills so I can start my dance career and do what I love the most as well as what God has blessed me with.

So thank you in advance for your donations, contributions, time, kind words and prayers.

Forever Blessed And Highly Favored,

Alycia :)

PS. Please follow my journey on Instagram at @Officially.Alycia

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US postage stamp. Scott #3216 - #3219 (1998) "American Music Series - Gospel Singers” Issued: July 15, 1998 in New Orleans, LA Quantity: 11,250,000 Printed By: American Packaging Corp. for Sennett Security Products (Photogravure) Four of the most influential early gospel artists were honored on a se-tenant - the twelfth issue in the Legends of American Music Series. Mahalia Jackson, Roberta Martin, Clara Ward, and Sister Rosetta Tharpe all performed this spiritual music with reverence and love. The emotion with which they sang helped bring this important genre of music greater respect.

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Some Influential Queer Musicians of Colour

Ma Rainey

Ma Rainey was one of the earliest African-American professional blues singers and one of the first generation of blues singers to record. She has often been credited as "Mother of the Blues". Rainey was known for her powerful vocal abilities, energetic disposition, majestic phrasing, and a "moaning" style of singing. Her qualities are present and most evident in her early recordings "Bo-Weevil Blues" and "Moonshine Blues". The political activist and scholar Angela Y. Davis noted that "'Prove It on Me' is a cultural precursor to the lesbian cultural movement of the 1970s, which began to crystallize around the performance and recording of lesbian-affirming songs."

See her Spotify

Sister Rosetta Tharpe

Sister Rosetta Tharpe was an American singer, songwriter, guitarist, and recording artist. She attained popularity in the 1930s and 1940s with her gospel recordings, characterized by a unique mixture of spiritual lyrics and rhythmic accompaniment that was a precursor of rock and roll. Tharpe's 1944 release "Down by the Riverside" was selected for the National Recording Registry of the U.S. Library of Congress in 2004, which noted that it "captures her spirited guitar playing and unique vocal style, demonstrating clearly her influence on early rhythm-and-blues performers" and cited her influence on "many gospel, jazz, and rock artists". The United States Postal Service issued a 32-cent commemorative stamp to honor Tharpe on July 15, 1998.[32] In 2007, she was inducted posthumously into the Blues Hall of Fame. On December 13, 2017, she was elected to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as an Early Influence.

See her Spotify

Esquerita

Eskew Reeder, Jr. usually known by the stage name Esquerita, and occasionally as S.Q. Reeder or The Magnificent Malochi, was an American R&B singer, songwriter and pianist, known for his frenetic performances. He has been credited with influencing rock and roll pioneer Little Richard. Reeder was a self-taught piano player whose roots were in gospel music. His music career started as a teenager, when he dropped out of high school and joined the gospel group "Heavenly Echoes" based in New York City. As Esquerita, he often wore heavy makeup, sunglasses, and two wigs, piling his pompadour high on his head.

See his spotify.

Arthur Conley

Arthur Lee Conley was a U.S. soul singer. He is best known for the 1967 hit Sweet Soul Music which shot to the number two spot on both the pop and R&B charts in America, earning Conley the number eleven male artist ranking for 1967.he relocated to England in 1975 and then spent several years in Belgium before settling in the Dutch village of Ruurlo and the cultural centre of Ganzenhoef (an extension southeast of Amsterdam) in 1980. He legally changed his name to Lee Roberts (his middle name and his mother's maiden name).

See his spotify.

June Millington

June Millington is a Filipino American guitarist, songwriter, producer, educator, and actress. She was the co-founder and lead guitarist of the all-female rock band Fanny, which was active from 1970 to 1974. Millington indicates that when she was 20 years old she knew she was a lesbian, and that while "everybody" associated with the band Fanny knew, at that time "you didn't talk about it". The Institute for the Musical Arts (IMA) was Millington's idea for how to empower women, especially women of color, in their pursuit of careers in the field of music, bridging the gap between women in the mainstream and in "women's music." IMA remains active as a multicultural nonprofit national teaching and performing arts organization, with Millington serving as Artistic Director.

See her Spotify.

Billy Wright

Billy Wright was an American jump blues singer. Throughout his career, he was known as the "Prince of the Blues." He was a key figure in Atlanta blues after World War II and had a major influence on rock and roll pioneer Little Richard, whom he helped get his first recording contract. As a child, Wright excelled at singing gospel music in his local church. In his youth, he worked as a dancer and as a drag queen but developed as a singer when he began performing at Atlanta's 81 Theater. Wright was openly gay throughout most of his career.

See his Spotify.

Felipe Rose

Felipe Rose was an original member of the disco group, the Village People from 1977 until 2017. He is half Latino and Native American. In 1970, when Rose was 16 years old, he won a scholarship to study dance with the Ballet de Puerto Rico under the guidance of Pascual Guzman. He participated in a dance-drama recital of Julia de Burgos at the Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts with the Ballet Company. The New York Post called his performance "poignant and compelling." In 2002 he won a NAMMY Award for the Best Historical Recording.

See his Spotify.

Joan Armatrading

Joan Armatrading is one of the first black female artists to have become popular in Great Britain. In a recording career spanning nearly 50 years, Armatrading has released 19 studio albums, as well as several live albums and compilations. She is a three-time Grammy Award nominee, Armatrading has also been nominated twice for BRIT Awards as Best Female Artist. She received an Ivor Novello Award for Outstanding Contemporary Song Collection in 1996. In April 2011, The Shetland News reported that Armatrading and girlfriend Maggie Butler were to enter a civil partnership.

See her Spotify

Nona Hendryx

Nona Hendryx began her career 1962 with the vocalgroup Patti LaBelle And The Bluebells, which was later renamed LaBelle. They were described as futuristic disco-funk divas. Nona Hendryx wrote a number of songs for the band before their breakup in 1976 and she went on to pursue a solo career with her self-titled debut album the next year. Her music has ranged from soul, funk, and R&B to hard rock, new wave, and new-age. In 2001, she discussed her bisexuality in an interview with The Advocate magazine[14] and has become a gay-rights activist over the years.

See her Spotify

Sylvester

Sylvester was an American disco and soul musician, and a gay drag performer. Known for singing in falsetto (and occasionally a rich baritone voice), he is also considered one of the first Hi-NRG artists. On September 20, 2004 Sylvester's anthem record, You Make Me Feel (Mighty Real), was inducted into the Dance Music Hall of Fame. A year later, on September 19, 2005, Sylvester himself was inducted into the Dance Music Hall of Fame for his achievement as an artist.

See his Spotify.

Disclaimer: I'm aware this is not an extensive list, so if you know of any other queer people of colour who helped create spaces in the music industry — particularly trans women of colour, dont hesitate to comment and share them with us!! 

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Kaitlyn Gilliland and Eva Tharp in Country Dances, Twyla Tharp Dance, July, 2016. © Yi-Chun Wu.

Kaitlyn Gilliland, formerly of New York City Ballet, is the gawky sylph with a body like taffy who can twist herself into any shape, then blow you away with a gorgeous, radiant Balanchine arabesque. And she’s a cutup. You can easily see why Tharp loves her.