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May 17

AUDIO DEMONSTRATION: Black Superstar by The Black Opera(composed by yU) (w/ LYRICS)

CHORUS:
Black Superstar. Black, Black Superstar.
Black Superstar: They don’t care who YOU are.
Black Superstar. Black, Black Superstar.
Black Superstar: They don’t care who YOU are.
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In ya Stupid House, Stupid Chain, Stupid Car.
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Black Superstar. Black, Black Superstar.
Black Superstar. Black, Black Superstar.
Black Superstar: They don’t care who YOU are.

“Caught up in the limelight: The Glamor Life.
Burgundy 9-11: a Deadly Drive.
Mercury 9-11: I’m Fahrenheit (fair in height).
Surgery type of weapons: the hand and knife
Either way I’m doing Time (Time).
They give me Life (Right).
Just to raise me Right (Right).
Institutionalized whether WE on the Wrong or Right
side of the Law.
I’m trynna find the right Crime just to Ball.
Ball So Hard: Police Man trynna fine YOU.
Out of Line like the coloring of a blind-mute.
Had a nine on me, had a blonde moment, the I lost my mind on em,
now my time frozen, like my watch broken,
and my mom hoping that I make it out alive.
Its 25-Life whether in chains or on the block.
The Block is Hot. The Block is Hot.
Niggas Snitchin’.
Whether on Television or in the Kitchen.
I Gotta Get It!” - TBOG #041380

CHORUS:
Black Superstar. Black, Black Superstar.
Black Superstar: They don’t care who YOU are.
Black Superstar. Black, Black Superstar.
Black Superstar: They don’t care who YOU are.
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In ya Stupid House, Stupid Chain, Stupid Car.
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Black Superstar. Black, Black Superstar.
Black Superstar. Black, Black Superstar.
Black Superstar: They don’t care who YOU are.

“I see WE still killin’ over Jordans…..
Ain’t no punchline in THAT bar.
Black Superstar, ‘hood Legend.
If I can’t be The Man I’ll be the man who stood next to Him then,
Get him murked, get his work.
Get his bitch, get his perks.
Now YOU got The Bulls-eye on YOU Targét.
Tryinna R.I.P. (Hamilton) YOU ur in harms way.
When them sharpshooters in The Mask visit.
Better hope it ain’t YOUR last visit, they morals is low,
Like a casket is, just ‘cus, niggas love to stunt.
Niggas love to flash, guess it’s in OUR Blood.
From marginalized, to Stars in the Sky.
We want it ALL, not just Part of the Pie.
By, any means I guess get YOUR money BIG.
Ball til YOU Fall like London Bridge.” - TBOG #120279

SALUTE: Mello Music Group.

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Jan 31
REST IN POWER: Camilla Williams. (Black Opera OURstory) “Camilla Williams, the first black woman to appear in a leading role with a major US opera company has died in Indiana aged 92. She had been suffering from cancer, according to Indiana University Jacobs School of Music, where Williams became the first black professor of voice. The singer made her debut in May 1946 in the title role of Madam Butterfly with the New York City Opera. She also became a strong advocate for civil rights. “It’s impossible to overstate how important that was for the music scene in New York, for African-American singers, and for American singers,” F Paul Driscoll, the editor-in-chief of Opera News, told the Washington Post. Williams’ debut performance came nearly nine years before Marian Anderson became the first African-American singer to appear at New York’s more prestigious Metropolitan Opera. A New York Times review of Williams at the time, said the singer displayed “a vividness and subtlety unmatched by any other artist who has assayed the part here in many a year”. The following year she performed the role of Mimi in Puccini’s La Boheme and in 1948 she sang the title role of Verdi’s Aida. In 1951 she sang the title female role in first complete recording of Gershwin’s Porgy and Bess. A lifetime member of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), the singer performed in her hometown of Danville, Virginia in 1963, to raise funds to free jailed civil rights demonstrators. She also sang the national anthem before 200,000 people at the 1963 civil rights march on Washington, immediately before Martin Luther King gave his famous I Have a Dream speech. In 1950, she married defence lawyer Charles Beavers, whose clients included civil rights leader Malcolm X. After Beavers’ death in 1970, Williams stepped away from opera in 1971 and began teaching before eventually retiring in 1997. Her autobiography - The Life of Camilla Williams, African American Classical Singer and Diva - was published last year.” - BBC News

REST IN POWER: Camilla Williams. (Black Opera OURstory)

“Camilla Williams, the first black woman to appear in a leading role with a major US opera company has died in Indiana aged 92.

She had been suffering from cancer, according to Indiana University Jacobs School of Music, where Williams became the first black professor of voice.

The singer made her debut in May 1946 in the title role of Madam Butterfly with the New York City Opera.

She also became a strong advocate for civil rights.

“It’s impossible to overstate how important that was for the music scene in New York, for African-American singers, and for American singers,” F Paul Driscoll, the editor-in-chief of Opera News, told the Washington Post.

Williams’ debut performance came nearly nine years before Marian Anderson became the first African-American singer to appear at New York’s more prestigious Metropolitan Opera.

A New York Times review of Williams at the time, said the singer displayed “a vividness and subtlety unmatched by any other artist who has assayed the part here in many a year”.

The following year she performed the role of Mimi in Puccini’s La Boheme and in 1948 she sang the title role of Verdi’s Aida.

In 1951 she sang the title female role in first complete recording of Gershwin’s Porgy and Bess.

A lifetime member of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), the singer performed in her hometown of Danville, Virginia in 1963, to raise funds to free jailed civil rights demonstrators.

She also sang the national anthem before 200,000 people at the 1963 civil rights march on Washington, immediately before Martin Luther King gave his famous I Have a Dream speech.

In 1950, she married defence lawyer Charles Beavers, whose clients included civil rights leader Malcolm X.

After Beavers’ death in 1970, Williams stepped away from opera in 1971 and began teaching before eventually retiring in 1997.

Her autobiography - The Life of Camilla Williams, African American Classical Singer and Diva - was published last year.” - BBC News
Posted at 12:38 PM Tagged: Black OperaBlack HistoryThe OperaCamilla WilliansArtMovementEnterMission.