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Mayfield: Remixed - The Curtis...
Viewed through the prism of the past two decades, Curtis Mayfield has been celebrated as a hip-hop prophet, largely because of his Superfly blaxploitation soundtrack of smooth funk grooves and ghetto poetics. But the late Chicago soul pioneer's relevance extends far beyond hip-hop, as this atypicall...
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Curtis Mayfield was a driving force in black music from the early
'60s through the mid-'70s, as a singer, writer, producer, and label
owner.
Mayfield began singing with gospel groups such as the Northern Jubilee Singers, who were part of his grandmother's Traveling Soul Spiritualist Church. He met lifelong friend and collaborator Jerry Butler [see entry] at a gospel function, and they went on to...
Mayfield began singing with gospel groups such as the Northern Jubilee Singers, who were part of his grandmother's Traveling Soul Spiritualist Church. He met lifelong friend and collaborator Jerry Butler [see entry] at a gospel function, and they went on to...
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