The quilt of Name Me, Sylvester’s seventh studio album.
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The quilt 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 couple of completely different trailblazer and maverick of Black music.
These musicians took dangers and pushed boundaries, and this hour, we’re speaking a couple of disco icon who defied expectations in every part he did.
“He type of introduced this broad strategy to gender presentation, not simply visually, however even in his singing,” Morrison says. “Typically you hear him, you are not 100% positive for those who’re listening to a person or a girl 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 giant.
“He despatched an affirming message that there isn’t any actual limits to expression and that expression ought to be fearless and current,” Morrison says.
This episode of World Cafe was produced and edited by Kimberly Junod. The net 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.
