By: Michael D. McClellan | David T. Walker’s fingerprints are all over one of the most noteworthy periods in music history, his contributions to the Motown corpus lauded by everyone from Stevie Wonder to Diana Ross, but you would never know it, not with the reticent Walker perfectly comfortable working in the shadows of such brilliance. Ubiquitous […]
By: Michael D. McClellan | Once upon a time, when Los Angeles lived and breathed, there was a man marked for greatness, despite the placid Midwestern upbringing that provided little hint that he was more than us after all. His backstory didn’t contain the baroque detail or the meteoric rise of a certain working class family from […]
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By: Michael D. McClellan | Broadway. Mecca of the theatre universe. If you grew up dreaming of a stage career, chances are you’ve dreamt of performing in one of New York City’s illustrious show houses, the electricity of a live audience alternately jangling your nerves and juicing you up, the sellout crowd an affirmation of […]
By: Michael D. McClellan | French painter Henri Matisse famously said that you study, you learn, but you guard the original naiveté – that it has to be within you, as desire for drink is within the drunkard or love is within the lover. Melissa Manchester, the Oscar-nominated, Grammy Award-winning artist behind such classics as Don’t Cry […]
By: Michael D. McClellan | He’s an R&B superstar, his résumé dotted with Grammy Awards, platinum albums and number one hits. He’s written songs for some of the biggest names in the music industry, with writing credits that touch artists such as Mary J. Blige, Destiny’s Child, Faith Evans and the incomparable Celine Dion (more […]
David T. Walker – Noteworthy
By: Michael D. McClellan | David T. Walker’s fingerprints are all over one of the most noteworthy periods in music history, his contributions to the Motown corpus lauded by everyone from Stevie Wonder to Diana Ross, but you would never know it, not with the reticent Walker perfectly comfortable working in the shadows of such brilliance. Ubiquitous […]
Al Jarreau – The Gift
By: Michael D. McClellan | Once upon a time, when Los Angeles lived and breathed, there was a man marked for greatness, despite the placid Midwestern upbringing that provided little hint that he was more than us after all. His backstory didn’t contain the baroque detail or the meteoric rise of a certain working class family from […]
Carol Woods – Show Stopper
By: Michael D. McClellan | Broadway. Mecca of the theatre universe. If you grew up dreaming of a stage career, chances are you’ve dreamt of performing in one of New York City’s illustrious show houses, the electricity of a live audience alternately jangling your nerves and juicing you up, the sellout crowd an affirmation of […]
Melissa Manchester – Divine Innovation
By: Michael D. McClellan | French painter Henri Matisse famously said that you study, you learn, but you guard the original naiveté – that it has to be within you, as desire for drink is within the drunkard or love is within the lover. Melissa Manchester, the Oscar-nominated, Grammy Award-winning artist behind such classics as Don’t Cry […]
Ne-Yo – R.E.D. Hot
By: Michael D. McClellan | He’s an R&B superstar, his résumé dotted with Grammy Awards, platinum albums and number one hits. He’s written songs for some of the biggest names in the music industry, with writing credits that touch artists such as Mary J. Blige, Destiny’s Child, Faith Evans and the incomparable Celine Dion (more […]