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Black Music Amiri Baraka 9781933354934 Nonfiction Akashic Books Akashic Books The long-awaited reissue (AkashiClassics: Renegade Reprint Series) of the sequel to Amiri Baraka’s seminal work, Blues Pe...
Black music in America: A history through its people
Black music in America: A history through its people James Haskins 9780690044607 Fiction Thomas Y. Crowell Co. HarperCollins Surveys the history of black music in America, from early slave songs throu...
Go Back and Fetch It: Recovering Early Black Music in the Americas for Fiddle and Banjo
Go Back and Fetch It: Recovering Early Black Music in the Americas for Fiddle and Banjo Kristina R. Gaddy and Rhiannon Giddens 9781469690575 Nonfiction University of North Carolina Press University of...
Feeding the Soul: Black Music, Black Thought
Feeding the Soul: Black Music, Black Thought Diane D. Turner 9780883782262 Nonfiction Third World Press Third World Press An Africa-centered framework unifies these essays about misconceptions in stan...
How Black Music Took Over the World
How Black Music Took Over the World Melvin Gibbs 9781541603240 Nonfiction Basic Books Perseus Books One of the world’s greatest bassists lays down the heart of Black music, revealing how its rhythmi...
Ain’t But a Few of Us: Black Music Writers Tell Their Story
Ain’t But a Few of Us: Black Music Writers Tell Their Story Robert Fleming Book Review Jazz is dead! If you believe that mess, you must not listen to radio or read any of the mainstream media. Howeve...
Ain’t But a Few of Us: Black Music Writers Tell Their Story
Ain’t But a Few of Us: Black Music Writers Tell Their Story Willard Jenkins 9781478019039 Nonfiction Duke University Press Books Duke University Press Books Despite the fact that most of jazz’s major ...
Biographical Dictionary of Afro-American and African Musicians (The Greenwood Encyclopedia of Black Music)
Biographical Dictionary of Afro-American and African Musicians (The Greenwood Encyclopedia of Black Music) Eileen Southern 9780313213397 Nonfiction Greenwood Publishing Group Greenwood Publishing Grou...
African-American Traditions in Song, Sermon, Tale, and Dance, 1600s-1920: An Annotated Bibliography of Literature, Collections, and Artworks (The Greenwood Encyclopedia of Black Music)
African-American Traditions in Song, Sermon, Tale, and Dance, 1600s-1920: An Annotated Bibliography of Literature, Collections, and Artworks (The Greenwood Encyclopedia of Black Music) Eileen Southern...
The Music Is the People
The Music Is the People Sean Qualls 9780063144255 Nonfiction HarperCollins HarperCollins CORETTA SCOTT KING HONOR ARTIST, SEAN QUALLS From Coretta Scott King Honor artist and illustrator of Questlo...
Power 101: The Harvard Report, Soul Music, and The American Dream
Power 101: The Harvard Report, Soul Music, and The American Dream Logan H. Westbrooks and Schuyler C. Traughber 9780998782232 Nonfiction Ascent Book Publishing Ascent Book Publishing In 1972 CBS Recor...
What the Music Said: Black Popular Music and Black Public Culture
What the Music Said: Black Popular Music and Black Public Culture Mark Anthony Neal 9780415920728 Nonfiction Routledge Routledge “What the Music Said is a passionately written book. It provides expert...
Earl Douglas, Jr.
Earl Douglas, Jr. MULTIPLE Earl Douglas, Jr. is a key figure in the music industry, renowned for his role with the Black Rock Coalition (BRC). As an executive director, he supports and promotes diver...
We Were Here: A History of Black People and Alternative Music
We Were Here: A History of Black People and Alternative Music Stephanie Phillips 9780306832758 Nonfiction Da Capo Press Perseus Books Group A long-overdue corrective to the history of rock ’n’ roll an...
Right to Rock: The Black Rock Coalition and the Cultural Politics of Race
Right to Rock: The Black Rock Coalition and the Cultural Politics of Race Maureen Mahon 9780822333173 Nonfiction Duke University Press Books Duke University Press Books The original architects of rock...
Melvin Gibbs
Melvin Gibbs 0000000055545607 Melvin Gibbs is a Grammy-nominated composer, musician, artist, and writer born and raised in Brooklyn, New York. Widely recognized for his groundbreaking work across ja...
Digging: The Afro-American Soul of American Classical Music
Digging: The Afro-American Soul of American Classical Music Amiri Baraka 9780520265820 Nonfiction University of California Press University of California Press For almost half a century, Amiri Baraka ...
Digging: The Afro-American Soul Of American Classical Music
Digging: The Afro-American Soul Of American Classical Music Amiri Baraka 9780520257153 Nonfiction University of California Press University of California Press For almost half a century, Amiri Baraka ...
I See the Rhythm
I See the Rhythm Toyomi Igus 9780892392124 Nonfiction Lee & Low Books Lee & Low Books From Michele Wood and Toyomi Ingus, the award-winning artist and author of Going Back Home, comes their second boo...
Eileen Southern
Eileen Southern 0000000108921347 Dr. Eileen Southern, born in 1920, was the first black female tenured professor at Harvard. Renowned for her seminal works on Black music, including “The Music of Bla...
Diane D. Turner
Diane D. Turner NONE Diane D. Turner is the curator for Temple University's Charles L. Blockson Afro-American Collection. Her expertise lies in Black history, film, and music. She authored the childr...
Black Ephemera: The Crisis and Challenge of the Musical Archive
Black Ephemera: The Crisis and Challenge of the Musical Archive Mark Anthony Neal 9781479806881 Nonfiction New York University Press New York University Press A framework for understanding the deep ar...
Don’t Deny My Name: Words and Music and the Black Intellectual Tradition
Don’t Deny My Name: Words and Music and the Black Intellectual Tradition Lorenzo Thomas 9780472068920 Nonfiction University of Michigan Press University of Michigan Press Black musical forms profoundl...
Serious Music
Serious Music Percival Everett 9780385552585 Fiction Doubleday Books Penguin Random House A thrilling, darkly comic journey of a Black musician making his way from the trenches of the Somme to the jaz...
Seduced
Seduced Nelson George 9780345412669 Fiction One World/Ballantine Penguin Random House "[A] smart, funny, and wonderfully resonant novel … It’s the 1980s, and aspiring songwriter Derek Harper is a man ...
It’s Our Music Too: The Black Experience in Classical Music
It’s Our Music Too: The Black Experience in Classical Music Earl Ofari Hutchinson 9780692781876 Nonfiction Middle Passage Press Middle Passage Press Groundbreaking Book Explores the Black Impact on Cl...
The Games Black Girls Play: Learning the Ropes from Double-Dutch to Hip-Hop
The Games Black Girls Play: Learning the Ropes from Double-Dutch to Hip-Hop Kyra D. Gaunt 9780814731208 Nonfiction New York University Press New York University Press 2007 Alan Merriam Prize presented...
Kyra D. Gaunt
Kyra D. Gaunt 0000000061596283 Kyra D. Gaunt is a college professor, jazz vocalist, author, and songwriter specializing in race, gender, and African American music. With a career in education startin...
Darrell M. McNeill
Darrell M. McNeill NONE Darrell M. McNeill is a Santa Barbara-based producer, musician, and journalist. He is the director of operations for the Black Rock Coalition, a nonprofit supporting artists o...
How Sweet the Sound: A Soundtrack for America
How Sweet the Sound: A Soundtrack for America Kwame Alexander 9780316442497 Fiction Little, Brown Books for Young Readers Hachette Book Group Featuring artists ranging from Miles Davis to Kendrick Lam...
Jess Marie
Jess Marie NONE Jessica Marie Smith, known as Poet Jess Marie, is an inspirational writer from Detroit, MI, best known for her book “Anthology for Hope in the Hood.” A graduate of Michigan State Univ...
A Phat Death: Or, The Last Days of Noir Soul (Nina Halligan)
A Phat Death: Or, The Last Days of Noir Soul (Nina Halligan) Norman Kelley 9781888451481 Fiction Akashic Books Akashic Books Fiction. African American Studies. A hit on a notorious hip-hop star plunge...
Teddy Riley
Teddy Riley 0000000078243847 Edward Theodore “Teddy” Riley is an American record producer, songwriter, singer, and musical innovator whose work has shaped the sound of modern R&B and hip-hop for mor...
Powerhouse Radio: Rough Roads, Radiance, and Rebirth
Powerhouse Radio: Rough Roads, Radiance, and Rebirth Ahmad Wright Book Review It is not often that a living person’s résumé reads as a memoir, however, Powerhouse Radio: Rough Roa...
Life of the Party
Life of the Party Harmony Holiday 9781635902013 Nonfiction Semiotext(e) Semiotext(e) An archive and annotation of Black music-performance culture, produced alongside Harmony Holiday’s first solo museu...
Shotgun Seamstress: An Anthology
Shotgun Seamstress: An Anthology Osa Atoe 9781593767396 Fiction Soft Skull Press Soft Skull Press A cut & paste celebration of Black punk and outsider identity, this is the only complete collection of...
Harlem 69: The Future of Soul
Harlem 69: The Future of Soul Stuart Cosgrove 9781846974205 Nonfiction Polygon Birlinn Book 3 in The Soul Trilogy Harlem, 1969, and the vibrant community around 125th Street is rife with creative inn...
L-vis Lives!: Racemusic Poems
L-vis Lives!: Racemusic Poems Kevin Coval 9781608461516 Poetry Haymarket Books Haymarket Books From the poet the Chicago Tribune calls “the new voice of Chicago,” comes L-vis Lives!, a bold new collec...
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The City Of Refuge [New And Expanded Edition]: The Collected Stories Of Rudolph Fisher
The City Of Refuge [New And Expanded Edition]: The Collected Stories Of Rudolph Fisher Rudolph Fisher 9780826218124 Nonfiction University of Missouri Press University of Missouri One of the premier wr...
Swing Time
Swing Time Zadie Smith 9781594203985 Fiction Penguin Press Penguin Random House An ambitious, exuberant new novel moving from North West London to West Africa, from the multi-award-winning author of W...
Nelson George
Nelson George 0000000115805862 Nelson George, born in 1957, is a renowned columnist, critic, journalist, filmmaker, and author of 21 books, including bestseller 'The Michael Jackson Story'. A pioneer...
W.E.B. Du Bois: Writings (Loa #34): The Suppression of the African Slave-Trade / The Souls of Black Folk / Dusk of Dawn / Essays
W.E.B. Du Bois: Writings (Loa #34): The Suppression of the African Slave-Trade / The Souls of Black Folk / Dusk of Dawn / Essays W.E.B. Du Bois and Nathan Huggins 9780940450332 Nonfiction Library of A...
The Plot Against Hip Hop: A Novel (A D Hunter Mystery)
The Plot Against Hip Hop: A Novel (A D Hunter Mystery) Nelson George 9781617750243 Fiction Akashic Books Akashic Books "George is an ace at interlacing the real dramas of the world … the book’s slim l...
Clifford’s Blues
Clifford’s Blues John A. Williams 9781566890809 Fiction Coffee House Press Coffee House Press “John A. Williams proves again that he is the greatest American novelist of the twentieth century”—Ishmael...
Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom (Movie Tie-In): A Play
Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom (Movie Tie-In): A Play August Wilson 9780593184967 Fiction Plume Penguin Random House NOW A NETFLIX FILM STARRING VIOLA DAVIS AND CHADWICK BOSEMAN From the Pulitzer Prize-winn...
The Magic Of Juju: An Appreciation Of The Black Arts Movement
The Magic Of Juju: An Appreciation Of The Black Arts Movement Kalamu ya Salaam 9780883781968 Nonfiction Third World Press Third World Press A contextual historical examination of the civil rights move...
How to Slay: Inspiration from the Queens and Kings of Black Style
How to Slay: Inspiration from the Queens and Kings of Black Style Constance White 9780847861385 Nonfiction Rizzoli International Publications Rizzoli International Publications An inspirational journe...
Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom (1920s Century Cycle)
Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom (1920s Century Cycle) August Wilson 9780452261136 Fiction Plume Penguin Random House Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Fences and The Piano LessonWinner of the New York Drama C...
Flyboy 2: The Greg Tate Reader
Flyboy 2: The Greg Tate Reader Greg Tate 9780822361800 Nonfiction Duke University Press Books Duke University Press Books Since launching his career at the Village Voice in the early 1980s Greg Tate h...
Open Mike
Open Mike Michael Eric Dyson 9780465017652 Nonfiction Basic Civitas Books Perseus Books Here, collected for the first time, are interviews and essays representing Michael Eric Dyson’s most important t...
RL’s Dream
RL’s Dream Walter Mosley 9780393038026 Fiction W. W. Norton & Company W. W. Norton & Company, Inc. When a black musician in New York is evicted for non-payment of rent, a white woman living in the sam...
My Voice Is a Trumpet
My Voice Is a Trumpet Jimmie Allen 9780593352182 Fiction Flamingo Books Penguin Random House Jimmie Allen, multi-platinum selling recording artist and the first Black musician to win The Academy of Co...
Bessie: Revised and Expanded Edition
Bessie: Revised and Expanded Edition Chris Albertson 9780300107562 Nonfiction Yale University Press Yale University Press The basis for the HBO film airing in May 2015, this revised and expanded editi...
Hoop Roots
Hoop Roots John Edgar Wideman 9780618257751 Fiction Mariner Books Houghton Mifflin Harcourt A multilayered memoir of basketball, family, home, love, and race, John Edgar Wideman"s Hoop Roots brings "a...
African American Musicians
African American Musicians Eleanora E. Tate 9780471253563 Fiction Wiley Wiley Meet the black musicians who created Americais greatest music—from the early years to modern times Marian Anderson Louis "...
W. B. Garvey
W. B. Garvey NONE W.B. Garvey, a relative of Marcus Garvey, is a renowned violinist and author of “Panama Fever: Digging Down Gold Mountain.” His work spans from performing with top orchestras and ar...
Stuart Cosgrove
Stuart Cosgrove 0000000384903559 Stuart Cosgrove, born in 1952, is a UK television executive and author. He has had a diverse career, from writing on the northern soul scene to winning a BAFTA for Ch...
Beethoven and Me: A Beginner’s Guide to Classical Music
Beethoven and Me: A Beginner’s Guide to Classical Music Earl Ofari Hutchinson 9780692508176 Nonfiction Middle Passage Press Middle Passage Press Political analyst Earl Ofari Hutchinson is best known a...
The Weight
The Weight Jeff Boyd 9781668007266 Fiction Simon & Schuster Simon & Schuster, Inc. A powerful coming-of-age novel about a twenty-something Black musician living in predominantly white Portland, Oregon...
Skin Deep
Skin Deep Kathleen Cross 9780976098805 Fiction William Blue Publishers William Blue Publishers Biracial but white-looking, Nina Moore is the daughter of a rich and famous black musician and a deceased...
Stagolee Shot Billy
Stagolee Shot Billy Cecil Brown 9780674010567 Fiction Harvard University Press Harvard University Press Although his story has been told countless times—by performers from Ma Rainey, Cab Calloway, an...
Blue Fasa
Blue Fasa Nathaniel Mackey 9780811224451 Poetry New Directions Publishing New Directions Publishing A stellar new collection of poems by “the Balanchine of the architecture dance” (The New York Times)...
Harlem’s Little Blackbird
Harlem’s Little Blackbird Renée Watson 9780375869730 Nonfiction Random House Books for Young Readers Penguin Random House Zora and Langston. Billie and Bessie. Eubie and Duke. If the Harlem Renaissanc...
Sam Cooke
Sam Cooke 0000000073649493 Sam Cooke (1931-1964) is one of the most iconic singer-songwriters in American history. His influence spanned genres, and his genius as a singer, songwriter, producer, ent...
Can Black People Go 5 Minutes Without Music?
Can Black People Go 5 Minutes Without Music? Troy Johnson Article ...or rather why do we have to blast the music during every gathering? Having been back in Harlem now for about 4 years -- after bein...
Blues People: Negro Music in White America
Blues People: Negro Music in White America Amiri Baraka 9780688184742 Nonfiction Harper Perennial HarperCollins "The path the slave took to ’citizenship’ is what I want to look at. And I make my analo...
My Black Country: A Journey Through Country Music’s Black Past, Present, and Future
My Black Country: A Journey Through Country Music’s Black Past, Present, and Future Alice Randall 9781668018408 Nonfiction Atria / Black Privilege Publishing Simon & Schuster, Inc. Alice Randall, awar...
Make a Pretty Sound: A Story of Ella Jenkins―The First Lady of Children’s Music
Make a Pretty Sound: A Story of Ella Jenkins―The First Lady of Children’s Music Traci N. Todd 9781452170640 Nonfiction Chronicle Books Chronicle Books Once upon a time, children’s music was just Mothe...
Music Is in Everything
Music Is in Everything Ziggy Marley 9781617759437 Fiction Akashic Books Akashic Books A picture book based on Ziggy Marley’s popular song celebrating music’s many forms, from the sounds of ocean waves...
The Music Lesson: A Spiritual Search for Growth Through Music
The Music Lesson: A Spiritual Search for Growth Through Music Victor L. Wooten 9780425220931 Nonfiction Berkley Books Penguin Random House From Grammy-winning musical icon and legendary bassist Victor...
Music Is History
Music Is History Questlove 9781419751431 Nonfiction Abrams Image Abrams Bestselling author and Sundance award-winning director Questlove offers a thrilling, music-driven ride through the last fifty ye...
Stop the Music
Stop the Music Cynthia Eileen Johnson 9780966299700 Fiction Black Butterfly Publishing & Marketing Black Butterfly Publishing & Marketing Stop the Music is a bold but sensitive novel that explores the...
The Spirit of Music: The Lesson Continues
The Spirit of Music: The Lesson Continues Victor L. Wooten 9780593081662 Nonfiction Vintage Penguin Random House Grammy Award winner Victor Wooten’s inspiring parable of the importance of music and th...
Meals, Music, and Muses: Recipes from My African American Kitchen
Meals, Music, and Muses: Recipes from My African American Kitchen Alexander Smalls with Veronica Chambers 9781250098092 Nonfiction Flatiron Books Macmillan Publishers Iconic chef and world-renowned op...
Victor Wooten Bass Workshop: The Language of Music and How to Speak It
Victor Wooten Bass Workshop: The Language of Music and How to Speak It Victor L. Wooten 9781540002952 Nonfiction Hudson Music Hudson Music Book/Media OnlineVictor Wooten emerged as a once-in-a-lifetim...
Music Was IT: Young Leonard Bernstein (Junior Library Guild Selection)
Music Was IT: Young Leonard Bernstein (Junior Library Guild Selection) Susan Goldman Rubin 9781580893442 Nonfiction Charlesbridge Charlesbridge ”Life without music is unthinkable.”—Leonard Bernstein...
All You Need to Know About the Music Business 6th Edition
All You Need to Know About the Music Business 6th Edition Donald S. Passman 9780743293181 Nonfiction Hal Leonard Hal Leonard For fifteen years, All You Need to Know About the Music Business has been ...
Judith Tick
Judith Tick 000000008391588X Judith Tick, a renowned professor emerita of music history at Northeastern University, is recognized for her award-winning work in American music and women's history in m...
Black Noise: Rap Music and Black Culture in Contemporary America
Black Noise: Rap Music and Black Culture in Contemporary America Tricia Rose 9780819562753 Nonfiction Wesleyan University Press Wesleyan University Press Winner of the American Book Award from the Bef...
A Child’s Introduction to Jazz: The Musicians, Culture, and Roots of the World’s Coolest Music
A Child’s Introduction to Jazz: The Musicians, Culture, and Roots of the World’s Coolest Music Jabari Asim 9780762479412 Nonfiction Black Dog & Leventhal Hachette Book Group Get ready to swing with A ...
The Story of West African Music: How it Conquered the World
The Story of West African Music: How it Conquered the World Doye T. Agama 9781806547425 Nonfiction BookVault BookVault Publishing This powerful exploration of African music traces its journey from...
A Young Person’s Guide to Classical Music
A Young Person’s Guide to Classical Music Earl Ofari Hutchinson 9781087950617 Nonfiction Middle Passage Press Middle Passage Press A Young Person’s Guide to Classical Music is a fast-paced, highly rea...
Clap Your Hands: A Celebration of Gospel
Clap Your Hands: A Celebration of Gospel Toyomi Igus 9780310769477 Nonfiction Zonderkidz HarperCollins Christian Publishing An inspirational, joyous celebration of poetry, art, and rhythm, tracing the...
Caruso’s Mustache Off - And Other Writings about Music and Musicians
Caruso’s Mustache Off - And Other Writings about Music and Musicians Carl Van Vechten 9781595690708 Fiction Mondial Mondial Before Carl Van Vechten’s later careers—as the first dance critic in America...
The Speech of Angels
The Speech of Angels Sharon Maas 9780007123865 Fiction Bookouture Bookouture Jyothi is a child of the slums and the streets, with a faint memory of past happiness: green hills at dawn, a boy’s clear a...
Roxane Orgill
Roxane Orgill NONE Roxane Orgill is a seasoned music critic and author with over 20 years of experience, having worked with The Wall Street Journal and The Milwaukee Journal. She is known for her bio...
Maureen Mahon
Maureen Mahon 0000000063123420 Maureen Mahon, a cultural anthropologist with a Ph.D. from NYU, focuses on African American music and culture, race and gender in music, and related socio-cultural aspe...
Somebody Scream!: Rap Music’s Rise to Prominence in the Aftershock of Black Power
Somebody Scream!: Rap Music’s Rise to Prominence in the Aftershock of Black Power Marcus Reeves 9780571211401 Nonfiction Faber and Faber Faber and Faber For many African Americans of a certain demogra...
Jazz and Justice: Racism and the Political Economy of the Music
Jazz and Justice: Racism and the Political Economy of the Music Gerald Horne 9781583677858 Nonfiction Monthly Review Press Monthly Review Press A galvanizing history of how jazz and jazz musicians flo...
Number Ones Only: The Autobiography of Ryan Press & the Art of Making Hits
Number Ones Only: The Autobiography of Ryan Press & the Art of Making Hits Ryan Press 9781954220874 Nonfiction Kingston Imperial Kingston Imperial Number Ones Only: The Autobiography of Ryan Press & T...
The Green Piano: How Little Me Found Music
The Green Piano: How Little Me Found Music Roberta Flack and Tonya Bolden 9780593479872 Nonfiction Anne Schwartz Books Penguin Random House This autobiographical picture book by the multiple Grammy Aw...
The Jazz of Physics: The Secret Link Between Music and the Structure of the Universe
The Jazz of Physics: The Secret Link Between Music and the Structure of the Universe Stephon Alexander 9780465093571 Nonfiction Basic Books Perseus Books A spectacular musical and scientific journey f...
Free Jazz: Creative Originality, Controlled Surprise
Free Jazz: Creative Originality, Controlled Surprise Robert Fleming and K Kelly McElroy 9781681210346 Nonfiction Uptown Media Joint Ventures Uptown Media Joint Ventures As the Cold War and the McCarth...
The Little Red Book of Musician’s Wisdom (Little Red Books)
The Little Red Book of Musician’s Wisdom (Little Red Books) Sheila E. Anderson 9781616088552 Nonfiction Skyhorse Publishing Skyhorse Publishing Celebrating both the famous and the obscure from every g...
Mogul: A Novel
Mogul: A Novel Terrance Dean 9781451611922 Fiction Atria Books Simon & Schuster, Inc. From the Essence bestselling author of Hiding in Hip Hop and an entertainment insider—a juicy debut novel about th...
The Quotable Musician: From Bach to Tupac
The Quotable Musician: From Bach to Tupac Sheila E. Anderson 9781581156676 Nonfiction Allworth Press Allworth Press In The Quotable Musician: From Bach to Tupac, music artists through the ages speak o...
Bliss: A Novel
Bliss: A Novel Danyel Smith 9781400046423 Fiction Crown Penguin Random House Danyel Smith is one of the most acclaimed music journalists of her generation, a prose stylist who “writes with music in he...
Bad Boy: The Influence of Sean "Puffy" Combs on the Music Industry
Bad Boy: The Influence of Sean "Puffy" Combs on the Music Industry Ronin Ro 9780743428231 Nonfiction Atria Books Simon & Schuster, Inc. This is a tale of friendship, greed, and betrayal in the music i...
John Coltrane: His Life And Music (The Michigan American Music Series)
John Coltrane: His Life And Music (The Michigan American Music Series) Lewis Porter 9780472086436 Nonfiction University of Michigan Press University of Michigan Press This is a definitive assessment o...
Ross Victory
Ross Victory NONE J. Ross Victory is an award-winning author and music artist from Los Angeles. Known for his memoirs and music, he has a background in marketing, teaching, and music publishing. Draw...