Just a little throwback post from my old personal blog, for your Friday amusement. Since I rarely post there anymore, I sometimes repost my favorites on StyleSkinny just for the heck of it. lol. So, Happy Friday and dont forget to see, "For Colored Girls" It comes out today! xoxo-SBG
So, if you're from Philly or South Jersey, or just a lover of ah...ehem, "Neo-Soul" I'm sure you will remember a little club downtown called, "The 5 Spot". The 5 Spot was/is a place with a performance stage area upstairs, and a club/bar atmosphere downstairs. Many greats of our time have started out doing shows here, including Musiq Soulchild and Jill Scott. I believe it burned down a few years ago but...
Anywhooo, before then a bunch of talented women musicians had a monthly show there called the Black Lily. This is how I came to know one of my ultimate favorite groups.... theJazzyfatnastees...or endearingly called by my sister and I, "the Jazzy's" Either way, I've always been the young one of the group, and so I never actually got a chance to go to Black Lily, because at the time I wasn't 21, and no I didn't have a fake. smh. Either way a few years down the line after the Black Lily set fizzled out I had the opportunity to see the Jazzy's perform at World Cafe. EXCITEMENT. I went. I listened (uhhh, better yet, was entranced) and afterward, a good friend of mine had the bright idea that I go introduce myself and say hello.
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