Known for their electrifying R & B and Funk and soulful ballads, the Dazz Band scored over 20 hits on Billboards R & B and Pop charts. The talk will remain on this page afterward for you to enjoy. The Dazz Band was the first group out of Cleveland, Ohio to win a Grammy Award for Best Performance by a R & B Group or Duo for their smash hit 'Let It Whip' in 1983. A live Q&A follows the conversation starting at 7 PM EST on April 7 please RSVP to participate through Zoom.
With a title inspired by a defiant 1963 speech by Josephine Baker-who in reflecting on her legacy said, “I was a devil in other countries, and I was a little devil in America, too”-Abdurraquib spotlights such artists as Whitney Houston, Michael Jackson, and Dave Chappelle, chronicling how Black performers have shaped our culture in the last century. Known for their electrifying R&B/ Funk and soulful ballads, the Dazz Band scored over 20 hits on Billboards R&B and Pop charts Gold and Platinum albums.
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Following such acclaimed works as They Can’t Kill Us Until They Kill Us and Go Ahead in the Rain, poet, critic, and author Hanif Abdurraqib’s A Little Devil in America (Penguin Random House) delivers an exciting mix of personal storytelling and cultural analysis that examines Black performance in the United States across film, television, music, and more. The Dazz Band The Dazz Band was the first group out of Cleveland, Ohio to win a Grammy Award for best performance by R&B group or duo for their smash hit Let it Whip in 1982. That said, sharing information about and examples of The Dazz Bands now iconic 1982 Funk song 'Let It Whip', the television series Soul Train & the Soul Train line, and Michael Jacksons 1982 Beat It song, is one way of honoring Black history in the month of February that United States annually designates as 'Black history month'.