Favorite African American Artist's

-Robert Johnson

-Charlie Parker
-Billie Holiday
-Jimi Hendrix
-Louis Armstrong

 

RICK JAMES!

 

I also enjoy most of those others have listed. Some other African American artists I enjoy are:

Lauryn Hill
Gil Scott Heron
BB King
Harry Belafonte
Tina Turner
George Clinton
Chuck Berry
Buddy Guy
Roberta Flack
Issac Hayes
Sly Stone
Elle Fitzgerald
Duke Ellington
Diana Ross
Bo Diddley
Nora Jones
Little Richard
Michael Jackson

 

I never really thought about it in this context. There are many artists out there that I enjoy that happen to be African American, but one's race never really crossed my mind.

 

Jimi Hendrix and most people probably hate these two but Michael and Janet Jackson I really love

 

mostly blues people Robert Johnson,Muddy waters, Son House etc..

also Jimi Hendrix Stevie Wonder,Otis Redding Miles Davis and George Clinton among others

 

I'm gonna add Tracy Chapman to my list

 

Erykah Badu!
Along w/ a ton of others that people have already mentioned.
But Erykah's my girl

~peace & blessings

 

louie armstrong,


count basie,

bob marly,

big youth,

king tubby

don letts

and james brown.

 

Mississippi Fred McDowell

Scarface
Leadbelly
Blind Lemon Jefferson
Mahalia Jackson
George Clinton and P-Funk
James Brown
The Temptations
Aretha Franklin
Shirley Brown
Etta James
Lightnin' Hopkins
Muddy Waters
Junior Wells
Robert Cray
Jimmy Reed
Nappy Brown
Ella Fitzgerald
Ray Charles
John Lee Hooker
B.B. King
Tampa Red
Eddie "Mr. Cleanhead" Vinson
Robert Johnson
Sly and the Family Stone
Sonny Boy Williamson
T-Bone Walker
Big Bill Broonzy
Lois Jordan
Kenny Neal
Tracey Chapman
Billie Holiday
Tupac Shakur
Biggie Smalls
Frank Edwards
Mary J. Blige
Macy Gray
Jill Scott
Alicia Keys
India Arie
Marvin Gaye
Miles Davis
Taj Mahal
Buddy Guy
Chicago Bob Nelson
Howlin' Wolf
Ella Johnson
and last, but not least- Chris Thomas King - Tommy Johnson, in Oh Brother Where Art Thou.
My aunt and uncle raised me on Blues. Those of you who know a lot of Panic trivia might know of Kelly Jo Davis, now Kelly Jo Ellis b/c she married Tinsley Ellis. Uncle T plays Blues on his own time with his own band, but he still sits in with Panic like he used to in Athens when I was a little kid. I owe a lot of my love of Blues to him, but at the same time... I think I would love it either way.
-Mac

 

Charlie Parker and Dizzy Gillespe (for opening so many doors in a time of racism)

John Coltrane (for being the only man to ever know how to play the sax)
Miles Davis (esp on Live Evil)
Thelonious Monk
Jimi Hendrix (of course)

HERBIE HANCOCK (if you haven't listened to headhunters: you are missing out!)

Wayne Shorter (esp with Joe Zawinal and Jaco Pastorius

 

he is from Jamaica. but i think that you still (for some reason) say that he is an african american.

 

Jimi Hendrix

Stevie Wonder