The duvet of Name Me, Sylvester’s seventh studio album.
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The duvet of Name Me, Sylvester’s seventh studio album.
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February is Black Historical past Month — and every week, all month, World Cafe correspondent John Morrison is right here to speak a few completely different trailblazer and maverick of Black music.
These musicians took dangers and pushed boundaries, and this hour, we’re speaking a few disco icon who defied expectations in the whole lot he did.
“He sort of introduced this broad method to gender presentation, not simply visually, however even in his singing,” Morrison says. “Generally you hear him, you are not 100% positive in case you’re listening to a person or a lady or neither.”
On this session, Morrison will get into Sylvester’s life, music and the legacy he left on dance music and the tradition at massive.
“He despatched an affirming message that there isn’t any actual limits to expression and that expression must be fearless and current,” Morrison says.
This episode of World Cafe was produced and edited by Kimberly Junod. The online story was created by Miguel Perez. Our engineer is Chris Williams. Our programming and reserving coordinator is Chelsea Johnson and our line producer is Will Loftus.