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Article: Music: the rhythm of life.(Sister speak)
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- Ebony
- Article date:
- June 1, 2006
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MUSIC has always been an important part of my life and integral to my well-being. While I was growing up in Tennessee, my father (in addition to his night job) ran an appliance sales and repair business that doubled as a record shop. As I worked there after school and on Saturdays, I was exposed to the Motown Sound and Stax Records artists Isaac Hayes, and Rufus and Carla Thomas, in addition to B.B. King, Muddy Waters and Howlin' Wolf. Yes, the down-home blues were popular in rural Tennessee.
On weekends as we did our household chores, the house was rocking to the sounds of a very young Aretha Franklin, the Temptations and Smokey Robinson, but also to the ...