Amazing black female artists!
This article is about some of my favorite black female artists and it lists a few you should listen to.
Black women have always played an important part in music. The popularity of black female singers obscures both the pain that informs their work and also the extra labor that goes into gaining and sustaining success. There are lots of amazing black female singers but I am going to talk about the females that mean the most to me. First off is Beyonce`. She has always inspired me. She is an amazing singer and songwriter, she will never be a backup singer, she’s just too talented. Her music just speaks to so many people in the world. Beyonce` has accomplished many great things so far. Such as being the only solo artist besides Mariah Carey to have hit No. 1 i four different decades. Beyonce` started small and got bigger and more popular over time. When she was just 7 years old, she won a talent show against competitors twice her age. As she got older, she started performing in front of customers at her mother’s salon. Beyonce` was literally raised by her vocal teacher, David Lee Brewer, who lived with the Knowles family. Brewer trained her from when she was eight years old, picking her up from school and giving her voice lessons every week until she was 20. A major part of her vocal training included running a mile while she was singing. In 2018, Beyonce` became the first black woman to headline Coachella. Beyonce` has been through so many things but she still continues to keep going. She struggled with depression, but look at her now: happy, beautiful, successful. Beyonce` faced so many racist encounters because of her race and skin color. Beyonce said “When I first started,21 years ago, I was told that it was hard for me to get onto covers of magazines because black people do not sell.” Then on 2013, she performed at the super bowl and people though her performance was “racist’’. Her performance wasn't racist it just showed a lot of black pride. Her costume at the super bowl was a homage to Michael Jackson. Now she has 3 beautiful children named Blue Ivy Carter, Rumi Carter, and Sir Carter. Well that’s enough about Beyonce`. There are other black female singers that inspire me such as Rihanna. Rihanna has inspired me and many others. Such as Calvin Harris who said she changed everything for his career. Even Madame Tussauds has eight wax figures of Rihanna. Rihanna is a very successful woman. She is a singer, actress, and businesswoman. On september 8, 2017, Rihanna launched Fenty Beauty. The brand is popular for its broad inclusivity across skin tones and gender, especially its Pro Filt’R foundation. Rihanna is a Barbadian singer, and in Barbados they have a Rihanna day. Rihanna never actually finished highschool but still has an amazing life. Rihanna is the best selling digital artist of all time with more than 100 gold and platinum song certifications and a nine time grammy award winner who also counts 14 billboard music awards among other countless music accolades. She was also an army cadet in a sub military program in Barbados. Rihanna signed her first record deal at 16 years old, and Jay-Z played a role in the offer. These two black women are my personal favorite, but there also many others out there. Such as Whitney Houston, Erykah Badu, Mariah Carey, Billie Holiday, Chaka Khan, Jazmine Sullivan, Aretha Franklin, Ella Fitzgerald, and Toni Braxton, but the list goes on and on. If you've been wanting some amazing black music to listen to, I would try some of the artists I listed.
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