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8. Kind of Blue, thanks so much for sharing your story of your mentor...

Reply to Kind of Blue (Reply #6)

Tue Dec 17, 2019, 12:03 PM

Dec 2019

Cleo, reminds me of the movie "Hidden Figures", and of course Marvin (miss him dearly) and Frankie. You nailed the gist of the OP with your line: "Marvin was global but Frankie was like our secret."

Could not have said it better myself and isn't it wonderful that we have and enjoy our secret cultural icons like Frankie Beverly and Maze and others that mainstream culture is missing out on—and it's their loss.

I feel you completely and thanks for the videos and again for sharing.

Love your screen name, btw.

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Famous v black famous...Frankie Beverly and Maze. [View all] brush Dec 2019 OP

You're painting with a very broad racial brush there, my friend. I'm a musician and I know there's abqtommy Dec 2019 #1

Who said anything about racism? It's about culture. Some groups are well known... brush Dec 2019 #2

I was reading this twitter thread yesterday tishaLA Dec 2019 #3

You'll also hear it at every..... spicysista Dec 2019 #4

If you wanna get folks up and dancing, just play it. It gets me up. brush Dec 2019 #5

OH, MY!!!! Earlier this month, as I've done ad infinitum, told my sister as we listened Kind of Blue Dec 2019 #6

Kind of Blue, thanks so much for sharing your story of your mentor... brush Dec 2019 #8

Oh, just one correction after telling sis of this OP. Kind of Blue Dec 2019 #9

I can't leave without posting Beverly's We Are One. Kind of Blue Dec 2019 #7