#black musician

[bumblebeeappletree]

Dulé Hill meets the Grammy-nominated, Appalachian musician, Amythyst Kiah. Amythyst discusses the Black community’s contributions to American traditional music, and how she processed her grief over her mother’s suicide.

Amythyst Kiah is redefining the sound of traditional music in Appalachia through her lens as a queer, Black woman in America. When Amythyst’s parents gifted her a guitar as a child, she spent hours playing, copying training cd’s and popular artists she heard on the radio, but it wasn’t until she took a bluegrass guitar class that she discovered the African contributions to the music of Appalachia. As a teen, Amythyst remembers feeling alone as her father battled drug addiction and her mother eventually committed suicide. Turning to alcohol nearly cost her a shot at a musical career, but through her father’s intervention, Amythyst began to re-channel her sorrow into song. She earned a 2020 Grammy nomination for Best American Roots Song for her tune “Black Myself," and today, Amythyst is continuing her journey of self-discovery through music.

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Ambré ☀️ Asiahn 🧡 Brenasia Gray

[officialangelkeys]

My Cover of "Growing Wings" is available on Spotify!

[hopelessromanticsavage]

They will burn this shit down before they allow us to shine. White ppl are weak and fragile. Yep I said it

[bleh1bleh2]

Soul King Merch 💀⚡️

[saydesole]

Happy Black History Month

Black Jazz Musicians

Their names are presented below, in chronological order from top to bottom

Louis Armstrong 1901-1971

Ella Fitzgerald 1917-1996

Duke Ellington 1899-1974

Miles Davis 1926-1991

Billie Holiday 1915-1959

Count Baise 1904-1984

Sarah Vaughn 1924-1990

Nancy Wilson 1937-2018

[xosiren]

The only 4 Black Women to Win Album of The Year at the GRAMMYs

ɴᴀᴛᴀʟɪᴇ ᴄᴏʟᴇ (1992)

ᴡʜɪᴛɴᴇʏ ʜᴏᴜꜱᴛᴏɴ (1994)

ʟᴀᴜʀʏɴ ʜɪʟʟ (1999)

ʙᴇʏᴏɴᴄᴇ (2025)

[soooseductiv3]

Soooseductiv3

[eroticlamb]

Bob Dylan eating breakfast (and the table) in Birmingham, England, 1966 ♡ Photographed by Barry Feinstein

[sisaworld]

Rico Nasty for Metal Magazine

[paymetea]

Eartha Kitt

[iloveabortions]

Björk (1997) photographed by: Nobuyoshi Araki

[nora-yoko]

[semioticapocalypse]

Unknown. Musicians on tour in the countryside. France. 1939

I Am Collective Memories   •    Follow me, — says Visual Ratatosk

[xosiren]

ᴊᴀɴᴇᴛ ᴊᴀᴄᴋꜱᴏɴ ꜰᴏʀ ɢᴜᴇꜱꜱ ᴊᴇᴀɴꜱ, 1993