To be blunt…I love rock music. Rock is portrayed as pretty darn white and male. Hence the inspiration for this post.
Lot of featured artistes located via this discussion at Quirky Black Girl which also has some gorgeous MP3’s in the thread.
Felony Melody from the band Objex – Eat This
Graph Nobel Fyah
More of her songs here Which are a mix of rock and pop and whatever.
Santi White AKA Santogold With band Stiffed- What you going do?
Gracefully feat. Honeychild Coleman – Inside Trois
Toshi Reagon One More Today
Toshi Reagon “I Hate I Love”
Wicked Wisdom “Something Inside of Me” (jada Pinkett Smith)
Shingai Shoniwa from the Noisettes – HD Never Forget You Live – 2009
Skin from Skunk Anansie – Selling Jesus
Daniella Cotton Make U Move
Fefe Dobson – Take Me Away
Sophia Ramos Torn Down
Betty Davis – They Say I’m Different (1974)
Lisa Kekaula from The Bellrays – Sister Disaster
Straight Line Stitch “Black Veil”
and more in this Bitch Blog post White washed: Black Woman in Rock
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Shingai Shoniwa of The Noisettes?
@Hugh
Yes.
Shit yes, the BellRays are fucking awesome. Love her voice so damn much.
And Skunk Anansie reformed! Always been one of my favourite bands.
I haven’t heard most of these bands though, I’m going to have a fun day of finding exciting new music.
edit: love for the Yeah Yeah Yeahs?
Joan Armatrading?????
Wow – this is cool!
I remember the first time I saw Jada Pinkett Smith rock out. It was on Letterman. When he announced her, I expected R&B or a ballad, given her connection to husband Will Smith, and that she is a gorgeous Hollywood celebrity. But she rawked as hard and as raw as Rage Against the Machine or Living Color — a comparison I make not because they are also multi-racial or black bands, but because they set the bar for “hard” and “raw.” Certainly more so than most of the white male bands whining their way through the radio rotation lists.
BTW – Living Color still don’t get the airplay they deserve.
Thanks for this great post, aside from Skunk Anansie, the Noisettes and Betty Davis, I haven’t heard of any of these artists before. So much lovely new music to delve into!!
@ Sean H : Yeah I liek the Yeah yeah Yeahs but they have noone black that I am aware of.
@ susan Oops!
@ Kevin Moore thats VERY true
@ Crys T So glad!
Ah, my bad, I thought we were including Asian women too. I hereby repurpose my support to be for Ninja of The Go! Team.