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Happy Black History Month 2025:
To celebrate, we are reposting some of our favorite Black Swans = names & faces everyone should know!
Ethel Waters, an enormously popular singer and actress, was a pioneer for African American women at a time they were not accepted in the arts. In her theatrical career, she was the first Black woman to integrate the Broadway stage, and in film she was the second African American to be nominated for an Academy Award, the first to have her own TV show, and the first to win a Primetime Emmy.… read more.
In my household, we grew up with Laura Nyro’s music. One of my dad’s favorite songs, Up on the Roof, was one of the tracks that he downloaded onto his iPod nano, and we learned to recognize it by just the opening notes. Laura, a singer-songwriter, has been called by The Guardian “the overlooked singer of the 60s,” but those who heard her music were invariably moved by it.… read more.
Twenty years ago today, Etta James received the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award, an award given to “performers who, during their lifetimes, have made creative contributions of outstanding artistic significance to the field of recording.”
Etta James is one of America’s most beloved singers, with a beautifully rich singing voice that shines across genres; throughout her career, she has sung in the style of R&B, pop, blues, jazz, and even gospel.… read more.
During Black History Month, we are taking the opportunity to celebrate some of the many incredible Black woman artists that we know and love. Our next artist is the fabulous Joyce Bryant!
Joyce Bryant was a singer, dancer and civil rights activist, who achieved fame through the nightclub scene of the late 1940s and early 1950s.… read more.