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Member Since Oct 27, 2006

Age 48

Gender Female

Last Login Oct 15

Location Rosamond, CA

Relationship Status Involved/Partner

Race Black/African American

Ethnicity Other

Education Bachelor's Degree

Primary Job Category Arts, Entertainment, and Media

Astrological Sign Aquarius

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TheNightingaleSings

Welcome to "My Place":
Sit back. . . Listen to some Jazz . . . Stay awhile . . .. . .

I kept the Light on for you:
So Exhale...let's Talk & Listen to some MUSIC

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CLICK HERE: I'd love to meet You!...

I'm a thick & pretty BBW, with dreds. It is what it is: and it's ALL good.

...a Pan-Africanist progeny, born and raised in (and undeniably shaped by) revolutionary times: during the Civil Rights movement, the Free Love movement, the Anti-War Movement, the Women's Liberation Movement.

...the offspring of both free and enslaved ministers, educators, philosophers, entrepreneurs, crooks, womanizers, and OG's

...a curious mixture of African/First-Nations/German-Jew/Dutch-Irish ancestry

...a loyal friend, lover, confidant, mother, and commrad in arms

...I love hard, laugh loud, dance freely, sing sweetly, listen well, think long and intently, speak softly, fight fair, cry silently, experience hurt deeply, and question everything, especially the status quo, authority, dubious individuals and Globalism

...a songstress, wordsmith, poetess, actress, and public speaker: hopefully touching upon pain and pleasure, identifying beauty and dysfunction, exposing truth and lies, hopefully moving myself and the hearers/seers toward a cathartic healing experience / toward being more alive and free to laugh, love, feel, explore, express and expose

...a lover of the Fine Arts and Culture. into Jazz, R&B, Hip-Hop, Classical . . . the whole trajectory

...I'm a lady in public . . .

I sing Jazz because I'm a free, improvisationally complex person, integrating many styles and multi-faceted moods and modes. I sing Classical because that where I got my real first vocal training as a soloist, and it has its own beauty -- if people don't get too stuffy and dogmatic about it being the only serious or important music. But, if I had to choose between Jazz and Classical (or Western Traditional Classical) -- Jazz would win out. Jazz is a classical form of music -- and recognized as such around the world, but not in America. The Western Classical tradition, for the most part, is so in love with itself that it cannot realize that there is another "original" Classical tradition, Jazz. Maybe in the next 50 or 60 years things will change in America. What do you think?

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I am a rather non-traditional, non-religious person -- (or at least hopefully so) because that's Who and how Yeshua Hamaschiach was. He was Love on a Mission, and that's my life's goal. I hope you will feel it in my music -- not a preachy message -- but the warmth of Love, Grace and Freedom.

Yeshua HaMashiach: Jesus The Christ,
The Messaiah
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Christianity is not "the White Man's religion" -- It's a Middle-Eastern Jewish/Ethopian/Egyptian = Jewish/African religion that spread to Europe. If they tried to hide our History and true Identity, it stands to reason that they would try to steal our God-given religious Faith. The ancient Egyptian artifacts that portray the Patriarch Jacob, his twelve sons and their families show these Mesopotamians to be "brown-skinned people with bushy hair." All that being said, I personally don't use the King James Version, but the Middle-Eastern "P e s h i t t a, aka Lamsa Bible". By the way, I am trying very hard to get either a hard copy or an Internet copy of the "Ethopian Bible" -- because it was not manipulated by the Catholic Church or Eurocentric colonial or neo-colonial translators.
"And you shall know the truth and that very truth shall make you free.
(John 8:32, Holy Bible from the Ancient Eastern Text [The P E S H I T T A])"
Amen.

THE MOTHER OF GOD (Yoldath Aloho)
Mother Mariam (Mary) with Infant Yeshua (Jesus) in the St. Mark's Syrian Orthodox Monastary, Jerusalem, supposed to have been
painted by St. Luke the Evangelist

Malankara Christian Resources on the Web

The famous Icon of Virgin Mary with Infant Jesus in the Altar of the Morth Mariam Jacobite Syrian church, Manarcad (India). Please note that this ancient painting depicts both Mother Maryam and Yeshua as "brown-skinned" people. This is not an Afrocentric rendering, this is an ANCIENT SYRIAC RENDERING. The artwork tells the truth. There is no "blond haired / blue-eyed" Messiah shown.

ETHIOPIAN BIBLE

FotoSearch.com -- Ancient Ethopian Christian Bible

"Priest shows an ancient Ethiopian Christian bible, handwritten in Amharic on goatskin pages. Asheton Maryam monastery, above at Lalibela, Ethiopia." [N15-400943 age fotostock Rights Managed Photograph]

Those who have
greatly influenced my life . . .

My parents -- the late ELDER Jacob C. & Dr. Ruth
My parents, "Jakey" & "Babe Ruth" were married 49 years,
Until my father slipped from this life and on into the next,
Taking his joy and charisma over onto the Other Side . . .
My parents were friends, business partners, confidants . . .
Against many odds, they made life work. . . and helped a lot of people in the process.

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My father, the greatest and most wonderful human being I've ever known.
Compassionate Elder statesman, preacher, teacher, philosopher, thinker, dreamer, entrepreneur,
unselfish lover of Humanity, a wonderful father & grandfather. . . missed by all who knew him.
{I'm a Daddy's Girl forever . . . }

His favorite poem: The Guy in the Glass

The Guy in the Glass
by Dale Wimbrow, (c) 1934

When you get what you want in your struggle for pelf^*,
And the world makes you King for a day,
Then go to the mirror and look at yourself,
And see what that guy has to say.

For it isn't your Father, or Mother, or Wife,
Who judgement upon you must pass.
The feller whose verdict counts most in your life
Is the guy staring back from the glass.

He's the feller to please, never mind all the rest,
For he's with you clear up to the end,
And you've passed your most dangerous, difficult test
If the guy in the glass is your friend.

You may be like Jack Horner and "chisel" a plum,
And think you're a wonderful guy,
But the man in the glass says you're only a bum
If you can't look him straight in the eye.

You can fool the whole world down the pathway of years,
And get pats on the back as you pass,
But your final reward will be heartaches and tears
If you've cheated the guy in the glass.
_______

(*) Pelf = Wealth or riches gotten unjustly, deceitfully, without honor.

http://www.theguyintheglass.com/gig.htm

My mom, a truly phenomenal woman . . .
Passionate and brilliant preacher, Bible teacher, evangelist & educator . . .

My maternal grandparents -- Pastor and Mrs. Arlington & Valentine;
My paternal grandparents -- Mr. & Mrs. Bill and Carrie;

Harriet Tubman; Sojourner Truth (Aminta Ross);
Rosa Parks, Marcus Garvey; Dr. W.E.B. DuBois;
Mahatma Gandhi;
President Nelson Mandella;
Rev. William Seymour of the Azusa St. Revival;
Pastor Luida-Grady Johnson; Dr. Ramona Woods
Professor John McDonald;
Mr. Charles Harry; Assata Shakur;
Travis Smiley; Rev. Dr. George A. Todd, Jr.; Paul Rhoads; Pastor Collisteen Farrier; Dr. Clyde River; Apostle Anthony Bennett

Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.; Malcolm X;

EMPORER HALLE SELASSIE and MRS. FLORENCE BRYANT, 1955

MARCUS GARVEY, the FATHER OF PAN-AFRICANISM
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Rev. Terri McFaddin

Teacher, minister, author, evangelist & Grammy-Award winning songwriter

Bishop T.D. Jakes

Pastor, author, artist, entrepreneur, philanthropist... international influence

Toni Morrison

Nobel Prize Winning Author; Professor at Princeton University

Dr. Cornel West

Princeton.edu/AfricanAmericanStudies/People/Faculty/...

Head of Religion, and Head of African-American Studies at Princeton University

Dr. Siri Briggs-Brown

African-American Studies Department Chair at Merritt College
One of my favorite all-time professors: Dr. Siri, you are the absolute best!

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I'veprepared a . . .
standardTraditional Jazz Playlist
just for youwith some of my favorite artists & songs (Betty Carter, Ella Fitzgerald, Duke Ellington, Anita Baker, Thelonius Monk, and more . . ..
Just click on the Green Arrow
in the box below and Enjoy!

(Jazz Legends)
Louis Armstrong, Billie Holiday, Ella Fitzgerald,
Duke Ellington, Count Basie, Nat King Cole,
Sarah Vaughan, John Coltrane, Thelonious Monk,
Dinah Washington, Art Tatum, The Modern Jazz Quartet,
Herbie Han%#&@$!, Betty Carter, Lena Horn, Nina Simone;
(Blues masters) B.B. King & Ray Charles;
(& Balladeers who defy genre)
the late Donny Hathaway, Anita Baker, Diane Schuur

"it's my page -- I'll do what I want" ;=)

for JAZZ...purists... connoisseurs... & aficionados...
for my "Jazz Forum" friends:
this playlist is for you...
Modern Jazz Masters (fathers):
BeBop, Cool, Hard Bop, West Coast, Free Jazz,
Fusion, Neo Bop, Fusion, Free Jazz,
Neoclassical, Modern Creative . . .

"if ya don't know, you better ask somebody"

John Coltrane, Miles Davis, Thelonious Monk,
Archie Shepp, Ornette Coleman, Albert Ayler,
Cecil Taylor, Pharaoh Sanders, McCoy Tyner,
Art Blakey, Art Ensemble of Chicago, Charles Mingus,
Eric Dolphy, Arthur Blythe, Herbie 'Han%#&@$!', Horace Silver,
Don Cherry, Don Sebesky, Oliver Nelson.

Okay, I know all that reading
may have taken something out of you . . .
please join me in a good old fashioned
game of TicTac Toe while you
CLICK the GREEN ARROW above
to listen to the Classic Jazz Playlist I prepared for you.

Game provided by: MoreMySpaceJunk.com

These are the Artists that have
most significantly influenced me . . .

Bishop Charles Watkins, Sarah Sanders, Edna Springfield, Margaret Jenkins and The Ladies of Song, Archie Dennis. My Dad, a true minstrel. Nathaniel Trudell, William Moon, Bernice Fraction, Alice "Cleve" Goodrum. Sharon Johns, Jean Burleson. Minister Eddie Edwards (my ex-husband, formerly known as Snakepit, one of the elder statesmen of the Bay Area Avant Garde Jazz Movement).

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Handel's Messiah: A Soulful Celebration	Larnelle Live: Psalms, Hymns & Spiritual Songs	Extension of a Man
What's Going on	The Revolution Will Not Be Televised	Moment of Truth: by Da' t.r.u.t.h.
Musicology	A Lazy Afternoon: Harold Land, Billy Higgins and James Leary	Sacred Love Songs
In Concert Easter Sunday, 1967	Tapestry	For Once in My Life
Softly with These Songs: The Best of Roberta Flack	The Essential Satchmo	Louis Armstrong and King Oliver
25 Greatest Hot Fives & Sevens	What a Wonderful World	The Afro-Eurasian Eclipse: by Duke Ellington
The Greatest Jazz Concert in the World	Live at the Blue Note	The OKeh Ellington
Masterpieces by Ellington	Duke Ellington and John Coltrane	The Great Summit: The Master Takes
The Unforgettable Nat King Cole	The Complete Sarah Vaughan on Mercury, Vol. 2: Sings Great American Songs (1956-1957)	Sassy Swings the Tivoli
Sarah Vaughan's Finest Hour	The Stockholm Concert, 1966	Lady Day: The Best of Billie Holiday
Strange Fruit	Lady in Autumn: The Best of the Verve Years	Billie Holiday - Greatest Hits (Sony)
Social Call	Droppin' Things	Betty Carter's Finest Hour
I Can't Help It	'Round Midnight	The Best of Dinah Washington
Nancy Wilson - Greatest Hits [Sony]	Sketches of Spain	Kind of Blue
'Round About Midnight	Monk in Paris: Live at the Olympia	Monk's Music
It's Monk's Time	The Essential Thelonious Monk	The Complete 1957 Riverside Recordings (2 CD)
Giant Steps	A Love Supreme	The Greatest! Count Basie Plays, Joe Williams Sings Standards
Count Basie's Finest Hour	Chairman of the Board	The Complete Savoy & Dial Master Takes
A Charlie Parker: A Studio Chronicle 1940-1948	Live at Carnegie Hall: Complete	Round Midnight - O.S.T.
Live	Vanessa Bell Armstrong	The Collection: 12 Best Loved Songs
Marian Anderson: Lady	Rediscovered (Dig)	Spirituals in Concert
Take a Look	Barbra: The Concert Highlights	The Best of Jennifer Holliday
42 Ultimate Hits	Essential Janis Joplin	B.B. King - Greatest Hits
Diane Schuur & the Count Basie Orchestra	Genius Loves Company	The Very Best of The Winans
Classic Moments	The Songstress	Evolution
The Essential Yolanda Adams	Timeless	Acoustic Soul
The Miseducation Of Lauryn Hill	Bone-A-Fide	Out the Box
The Rebirth of Kirk Franklin

Books
that have shaped
my worldview

In junior high and high school, I was involved in music, drama, speech team, engineering club, student government and Junior Achievement. These things helped me to become diverse in terms of music, literature and business by requiring me to do lots of reading. On the weekends, I lived in Indianapolis' huge downtown library and read every anthology on Afro-American Literature. I spent hours on end reading poetry, essays, and short stories by the African-American writers from the Harlem Renaissance -- to the Civil Rights Era -- to the Black Power Movement, such as Paul Laurence Dunbar, Langston Hughes, Mari Evans, Margaret Walker, Nikki Giovanni, Amari Baraka, etc. I also read many of the major European writers such as Chauser, Shakespeare, Edgar Allen Poe, Robert Frost, etc. Combined with the rigors of college prep classes, along with speech & debate teams, -- I was forced to become an avid reader. The listing below includes many of the books that I have read over the years that have helped to shape my worldview and opinions.

Assata: An Autobiography (Lawrence Hill & Co.)	In Old Plantation Days	I Know What the Caged Bird Feels: The Best-Loved Poems of Paul Laurence Dunbar
The Negro Problem (Classics in Black Studies) (Classics in Black Studies.)	The Best Short Stories by Black Writers, 1899-1967: The Classic Anthology	Surprizing Narrative: Olaudah Equiano and the Beginnings of Black Autobiography (Contributions in Afro-American and African Stud
The Portable Harlem Renaissance Reader (African American History (Penguin))	American Negro Poetry: An Anthology (American Century)	The Norton Anthology of African American Literature (Includes Audio CD)
Hinds' Feet on High Places	Why Am I Afraid to Tell You Who I Am? Insights into Personal Growth	Holy Bible, Woman Thou Art Loosed Edition: General Editor: T.D. Jakes
Roots (Dell Book)	The Illustrated Souls Of Black Folk (Annotated, Illustrated, Documentary Editions)	Stolen Legacy
Jazz	Blue Like Jazz: Nonreligious Thoughts on Christian Spirituality	The Autobiography of Malcolm X : As Told to Alex Haley
Gandhi's Truth: On the Origins of Militant Nonviolence	Invisible Man	Native Son (Abridged)
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings	A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (P.S.)	The Lady, Her Lover, and Her Lord
God's Leading Lady	Woman, Thou Art Loosed: Healing the Wounds of the Past	Why Am I Afraid to Love?: Overcoming Rejection and Indifference
Healing the Wounded Spirit	The Transformation of the Inner Man	This Present Darkness

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I've been Moved by Movies . . .

A famous author, John Powell, once wrote, "If I tell you what I think, then you have a catalogue file of my thoughts; but if I tell you what I feel, then I am telling you about who I am."

As a student of his writings, I agree. I also believe that if I tell you WHAT I WATCH for ENTERTAINMENT and PERSONAL ENRICHMENT -- that I tell you volumes about who I am, what I like, what's important, what I feel strongly about, and what I believe.

This list of films represents much of what I value, hold dear, think is entertaining. My choices below tell you a little about what I think on Politics, Government, Social Issues, Afrocentrism, Eurocentrism, Elitism, Community, Family and "The HOOD" . . .

Hollar back if you think "you feel me."

Hotel Rwanda	Akeelah and the Bee (Widescreen Edition)	The Godfather, Part III
The Godfather, Part II	The Godfather	Coming to America
Roots	Amistad	The American Experience - Marcus Garvey: Look for Me in the Whirlwind
Martin Luther King Jr. - I Have a Dream	Gandhi	Malcolm X (Two-Disc Special Edition)
ROSA PARKS: Modern Day Heroine	Fahrenheit 9/11	Cry Freedom
Schindler's List (Widescreen Edition)	The Color Purple	Bird
Round Midnight	Ray (Limited 2-Disc Special Edition)	Ali
Introducing Dorothy Dandridge	A Huey P. Newton Story	Redemption - The Stan "Tookie" Williams Story
Antwone Fisher (Widescreen Edition)	Crash (Widescreen Edition)	Collateral
Lean on Me	Driving Miss Daisy (Special Edition)	The Shawshank Redemption
Rain Man	Forrest Gump	Boyz N the Hood (2-Disc Anniversary Edition)
Class Action	Passenger 57	Sugar Hill (1994) (Sen)
Murder at 1600	U.S. Marshals (Special Edition)	The West Wing - The Complete Seventh Season
Law & Order Criminal Intent - The Third Year (2003-04 Season)	Homicide	Minority Report (2pc) (P&S Sub)
Columbo - The Complete Fourth Season	Love Aint Suppose to Hurt Gospel Plays: by Bradley Alexander	Tyler Perry: Meet the Browns
Tyler Perry's I Can Do Bad All By Myself	Diary of a Mad Black Woman (Full Screen Edition)	Why Did I Get Married? (The Tyler Perry Collection)
Tyler Perry's Madea's Class Reunion	Madea's Family Reunion (Full Screen Edition)	Madea Goes to Jail (The Tyler Perry Collection)
The Manchurian Candidate (Widescreen Edition)	A Soldier's Story	Courage Under Fire
Crimson Tide (Unrated Extended Edition)	The Siege	John Q. (Infinifilm Edition)
Fallen	Glory	The Pelican Brief
China Cry	Left Behind Collection (3pc) (Btb)	Conspiracy Theory
Finding Forrester	The Matrix Revolutions (Widescreen Edition)	The Matrix Reloaded (Widescreen Edition)
The Matrix	The Enemy Within	Enemy of the State

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THE EXODUS DECODED
(A must-see for serious students of history, especially in coming to terms with the PanAfrican/Egyptian link between the Israelites and the Egyptians!)

"The story of the Exodus invokes an epic tale--Pharaohs and Israelites, plagues and miracles, splitting of the sea and drowning of an army, and Moses. It's at the heart of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. After much research--working with archaeologists, Egyptologists, geologists, and theologians--filmmaker Simcha Jacobovici concluded that the Exodus took place hundreds of years earlier than thought. With a new timetable, Jacobovici reexamined artifacts and discovered that the traditional consensus on the date was reached without reference to Judaic texts that record the oral traditions. When Jacobovici consulted these texts, they revealed names of people and places unknown to researchers until recently when extensive excavations in the Nile Delta took place. Teaming up with special effects designers, he created a unique digital experience of the Exodus. Blending archaeological findings with eye-catching effects, Jacobovici creates a virtual museum to showcase his discoveries." (From THE HISTORY CHANNEL @ <http://www.history.com/media.do?action=clip&id=exodus_decoded_5min_broadband>)

THE EXODUS DECODED, Trailer (As aired on The History Channel)
Executive Producer James Cameron presents The Exodus Decoded, a Simcha Jacobovici film. Now available on DVD!
In the US available at:
http://store.aetv.com

The Exodus Decoded, Part 1 of 4 (As aired on The HistoryChannel)

The Exodus Decoded, Part 2 of 4 (As aired on The HistoryChannel)

THE EXODUS DECODED, Part 3 of 4 (As aired on The HistoryChannel)

THE EXODUS DECODED, Part 4 of 4 (As aired on The HistoryChannel)

THE EXODUS DECODED (Background Information -- By AfroStyle)
English website about the Kamit (black) community: www.afrostyly.com/english

THE LANGUAGE OF THE ANCIENT HEBREWS (As aired on The History Channel)

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