Thank you, very kind of you wishing you a very Merry Christmas!

You're welcome!

So glad you like Africa Musing beloved. You know I love what you do and truly wish you the best success.Thank you.Share it if you wish.

Wow, great story! My college classmate a guitar player from Cleveland, a friend of greg Bandy's as well, the late Frank "Silk Smith, and I gigged in a band in Nashville and hustled gigs on Music Row in Nashville where we did demos to be pitched to established artists like Charlie Pride,Ricky Nelson, Conway Twitty, and Joe Tex and other signed mostly country artists. We were still students at Fisk and were gigging and knocking on studio doors along Music Row beating the pavements getting work at Columbia Screen Gems , Mercury records, Capitol and Ray Stevens label . Stevens had a ton of hits, mostly novelty songs like "The Streak"; "Ahab the Arab",(which was banned on radio) and rightfully so, "Along Came Jones!" and a great ballad "Everything is Beautiful." Ray really liked a few of my songs and wanted to sign me but the contract called for me to change my name to Travis Womack before there ever was a Travis Womack Country star band. I was not legally an adult when my parents balked at the idea of signing Ray's Agreement which involved tours and leaving University to pursue doing one night stands around the country. I finished a version of my song I'll Go it Alone and added verses years later after a few more "heartbreaks" before recording it. I bet those are some great Speakers!Thanks for sharing that great story. If Charle Pride had recorded any of my songs I'd be set! LOL

it would seem ur missing some nuance in this comment, its not that theres only one type of hair for black people, but rather there is a historical devaluation of particularly common types of hair for black people, in relation to hair characteristics which are typically associated with whiteness. the black people who have straighter hair also experience a different type of privilege because of this

That wasn’t Quite the point here. The focus was on the aesthetic of dark skin and non-straight hair textures deemed as unattractive, undesirable and lower class.

Thank you Billy Vera, it's my honor and privilege,it's a great song. I hope it's been done justice.

You did, my friend.