Beautiful remake of the song While My Guitar Gently Weeps from fantastic guitar player Santana with the vocals laced by India Arie. Enjoy the song and visuals.
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Your Title 2010 BET Honors Performances
For those that may have missed the BET Honors last night, check out these performances from Jennifer Hudson, Mary J. Blige, India Arie, Stevie Wonder, and Trey Songz. Overall, the show was pretty good and all of the tributes were well done. Let MMIM know what you think.
THE TESTIMONY OF INDIA.ARIE IN LOS ANGELES: LIGHT ON THE POLITICS, HEAVY ON THE LOVE
Review and Photography by HW Design Inc.The fact that India.Arie launched and ended her show at Club Nokia with prayer was a testimony to the spiritual depth of the evening. “I’d like to start the night with a prayer…” With these opening words, the Grammy Award winning singer/songwriter led the crowd into a journey of raw emotions, earnest honesty and euphoric love. In only her fifth show back since a self-imposed hiatus in 2007, Arie was in seasoned and peak form while she performed for over 2 1/2 hours during a 26 song set.
In February, Arie performed at the White House, celebrating the music of Stevie Wonder as he was awarded The Library Of Congress Gershwin Prize. She performed for President and Mrs. Obama during the PBS televised event.
Before the show, Wonder’s “You Are The Apple Of My Eye,” could be heard playing in the background. During the show, Arie told a story of a conversation between her and Wonder, regarding a relationship she was then in. Wonder’s advice for her was simple, “Love does not hurt.” That statement would be apropos for the evening, with every twist and turn of the performance all pointing to the power and healing of love.
Of her new album, Arie exclaimed, “all these songs are political and all these songs are about love.” “Testimony: Vol. 2, Love & Politics” is Arie’s fourth studio album, which she calls her, “best studio experience ever.” Including the catchy singles, “Chocolate High (featuring Musiq Soulchild)” and “Therapy (featuring Gramps Morgan),” the album has been met with much critical acclaim. She went on to explain that while “Testimony Volume 1″ was about relationships, this new album is about the “oneness and interconnectedness” of everyone and all of us. As she sang, “Ghetto,” Arie asked the question, “when you look around, do you see your brother? It’s a small world after all. You live in another country too.”Click on more to see the rest of the review.
(more…)Album Retrospect: India Arie- Love and Politics
India.Arie Testimony Vol 2: Love & Politics
Legendary KRS-One has always boasted about his lack of concentration on the strains of marketing. He proclaimed and proved consecutively that his craft originated from his origin and only as he saw fit.
The same can be said of India.Arie, down to her toe nail polish she transcends hackeneyed ideals. The proof is in the fabric both figuratively and literally. Many are not able handle her disregard of pop culture but it appears that such is the key for classics.
Testimony Vol 2: Love & Politics pure nature is what sets it apart from the rest. It is vocally, sonicallyzn sound as Ms. Arie intended her work to be. I have to be honest. Initially, I was one of the music heads that couldn’t stand her constant positive message or style of music. This was true up until the moment I heard “Ready For Love.” And as far as I was concerned all of her music should rock to that very beat.
My or our dreams have come true. Love & Politics is a conplete turn around [for me], that it not too pop, too R&B, or too India.Arie (if that makes sense after you read my next thought). It is different yet it is as inspiring as the “old” India.Arie.
The album portrays how disconnected dynamic of politics and love. India.Arie’s testimony delicately gives an in depth look through sound, the needed guidance between the two. The awkwardness arises because one’s landscape is supposedly straight and narrow (politics) and the other wild, rugged and without a manual (love). Such is perfectly conveyed through the array of both song title and subject. This balance beam action is heard in the juggling of topics like the ever-so Domino cause and effect of the loss of a real father and daughter relationship sung in “The Cure” and the fresh, yet all to ancient story of thr ghettoes of America and Africa in “Ghetto.”Love & Politics exercises Arie’s talent outside of the guitar. The piano rifts in “Long Goodbye” are impressive. The sound is mature and properly produced. India.Arie also intelligently gambled with collaborations with Musiq Soulchild, MC Lyte, Terell Carter, Gramps Morgan, Dobet Gnahore and blues legend, Keb Mo.
“He Heals Me,” “Psalms 23,” “River Rise,” and “Long Goodbye” are sure to be favorites. Love & Politics is a great addition to Arie’s catalogue; an appropriate exploration to the emotions, vision, and lyrics painted in Testimony Vol 1: Life & Relationships.
The point is stop India.Arie’n, India.Arie.Written By Kaia Karamoko
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