Story by: Gail Nobles Photo: Zoran Veselinovic - https://www.flickr.com/photos/56492970@N07/5759638423/in/photostream/ Usage: Wikipedia https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0 When I heard Michael Jackson the singer, I never really recognize the changes in his voice. When I listen to him growing up, I noticed that he had a very high voice range. I could not tell when he sounded a little raspy. All I was hearing was a child's voice. When he was a boy, to me his singing was perfect. And when I would try to sing with his records, I didn't feel comfortable singing in high range with him. Michael could sing very high and loud. I wasn't a loud singer. I just sing out enough to be heard. Singing along with Michael's voice was never easy. Ben the two of us need look no more… Starting out with him was OK, but when he started singing in that high range …With the friend to call my own….. that's the part that's not always easy. When I begin listening to Michael Jackson, when he was at age 18 or 19, then I noticed that he was no longer singing like little Michael Jackson. I noticed his voice changed then, but I never paid much attention to it because I loved his singing still. To my ears he had a great sounding voice as an adult soprano.Just a little bit of you everyday…Michael still had a beautiful young sounding voice is a young man. When he started singing his hit singles in his 20s like Rock With You, I noticed the shake in his voice more. ...close your eyes, Let the rhythm get into you. And as the years went by, as Michael Jackson got older, his voice changed some more. His voice got more raspy and sometimes deep. But even his raspy voice sounded good to me. I still enjoyed hearing him sing because I could still hear Michael Jackson. I'm Gail Nobles. Thank you for tuning in and goodbye for now.

Story By: Gail Nobles First, let's talk about rap music and the music industry. Today rap music is a more complex thing to me than it was when it first started. Rap music became like a street thing with violence. It crushed my dreams from wanting to become a rapper. When rap first started, it was simply all about having fun and entertainment. It started in the early 70s. It was a good thing in the 80s. It kept some people off the street where I'm from. Some of us had dreams and wanted to become famous and make rap records. We would get together in school and have rap contest. Those were the good old days. Our parents told us we wouldn't make it that way. I believe we could have back then considering what's going on now. It seemed like the music industry began to change and so did hip-hop in the 90s. I saw how hip-hop was affecting things. I didn't know what was going on in 1989 when Whitney Houston got booed, and why I was hearing all the talk about her not being black enough at the Soul Train Music Awards. I believe something was happening then. Then everybody was talking about hip-hop singing Mary J. Blige in 1992. But by then, Whitney Houston went on to act in a romantic thriller film The Bodyguard in 1992. But getting back to hip-hop, it seemed in the 90s rap music was popular because of the West Coast - East Coast thing. By then, I wasn't interested in rap that much. To me, some people started looking at black as hip-hop. I never consider the race thing in music as far as all of the violence. Music was becoming a violent thing to me because Tupac got shot and Biggie got shot. It made me think that music was not just music anymore and hip-hop wasn't hip-hop anymore. Then all of a sudden I was hearing that Michael Jackson was facing allegations of child sexual abuse in 1993 and 2003 then in 2009 he dead in 2012 Whitney Houston died our biggest stars after that prince died in 2016 then R. Kelly went to jail in 2022 for sex trafficking now I'm seeing P. Diddy in the news. Things ain't right in the music world. That's what the headlines have been telling us. Not tabloids with the gossip, but headlines and television. So what's behind the music? Why are all these bad things happening to our favorite stars? Why are they being accused of sex crimes? Why are they going to jail? And these are very successful people. Think on these things. Thank you for listening to CB news. I'm Gail Nobles.

Photo credit: https://iconspng.com/image/144428/whitney-houston-face# Usage: Free Story by: Gail Nobles Hello! I'm Gail Nobles! Welcome to the Whitney Soul Podcast. We know that Whitney Houston was a singer and actress. We know that she was one of the greatest singers in the history of music. We know that she is one of the best selling music artist of all time with over 220 million record sold worldwide. Whitney starred and films like: The Bodyguard, Waiting To Exhale, The Preachers Wife,The 1997 film Cinderella, and 2012 film Sparkle. Whitney Houston produced and starred in Sparkle. She is best known for producing the 1997 film Cinderella. She took on the role of the fairy godmother. Whitney Houston also produced the Princes Diaries and the Cheetah Girls. The movies were very successful. Whitney was also recognizing other people who had talent. She recognized three sisters and two cousins who were called Sunday. They were managed by Whitney Houston and Robin Crawford. I don't think they are singing now, but people still remember the group and talk about the group. They were a very good group. Whitney recorded background vocals for the song All of a Sudden on Sundays 2000 self titled debut album. Sunday made a song featuring Whitney Houston Believe In Love. There was a record label called Better Place Records founded by Whitney Houston. The parent label was Capital Records. It was Whitney Houston who gave Brandy her first movie credit. She played as Cinderella in the 1997 film Cinderella. Whitney wanted Aaliyah to be in her movie Sparkle. Whitney Houston was more than a singer she was more than an actress she was Whitney Houston the producer. You're listening to the Whitney Soul Podcast, the first episode of 2024. I'm Gail Nobles. Thank you for listening.

Music Intro by: Gail Nobles Photo credit: Wikipedia Usage: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0 Lisa Stansfield has been around the world. “All Around the World" became a very successful single peeking at number one in many countries. Hello! I'm Gail Nobles. Welcome to the show and welcome to a brand new year 2024. Today's topic is Lisa Stansfield an English singer songwriter and actress. Her song All Around the World came from her debut studio album Affection (1989). It was written by Stansfield, Ian Devaney and Andy Morris. The song received favorable reviews from music critics. Songwriters, Stansfield, Devaney and Morris, received the 1989 Ivor Novello Award for Best Song Musically and Lyrically. “All Around the World" was also nominated for the Grammy Award for Best Female Pop Vocal Performance at the 33rd Annual Grammy Awards. Additionally, Stansfield was nominated for the Grammy Award for Best New Artist. In 1992, Stansfield re-recorded "All Around the World" as a duet with Barry White. This version was included on her single "Time to Make You Mine" (March 1992). The song is largely influenced by American singer-songwriter Barry White. As a tribute to him, a spoken intro was made on "All Around the World" like the one on the album version of White's "Let the Music Play", only shorter. I'll never forget that night I saw Lisa Stansfield singing All Around the World live at the Apollo. She was moving the crowd. The audience loved her. I'm Gail Nobles. Thank you for tuning in. Today's topic Lisa Stansfield.

Intro by: Gail Nobles Music: Samplefocus.com Usage: Standard License Photo: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Mika-photography Usage: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:Creative_Commons https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/deed.en https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/deed.en Hello! I'm Gail Nobles. Aaliyah recorded a song titled one in One In A Million for her second studio album of the same name. One In A Million was nominated for best R&B/Soul Single-Female at the 1998 Soul Train Music Awards. Aaliyah sang One In A Million but was one in a million and still one in a million because she's admired and fans are still showing their love for her. You know she had to be a very special person. There's a spirit in all of us telling our hearts that she should still be here. We miss her very much. Aaliyah was ahead of us. Her music and words are left for us. Your love is one is one in a million. You know you can talk to God about people that you miss. The Lord listens and pays attention to his people. I couldn't tell you if I didn't know. God will give you the desires of your heart (Psalms 37:4). All things are possible but we must believe. In the year of 2001, when Aaliyah passed away, so did my mom. That same year. As I prayed in the hospital room, the Lord brought my mom back to me a few more hours. I didn't know then what I know now. But God will answer prayers. The Lord said to me: “My power is not gone.” The Lord is still working miracles. We must spend time with the Lord to know what we have in him. The kingdom of God is within you (Saint Luke 17:21). In him you can be one in a million. Think on the words one in a million as you think about God and as you think about Aaliyah.

Hip-Hop Legend Kool Herc Usage: http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/ And Permission to use by BronxNet Owned by: BronxNet Television https://archive.org/details/Hip-hopLegendKoolHerc Coming up next: DJ Herc a Jamaican American DJ who is credited with being one of the founders of hip-hop music in the Bronx, New York City in 1973. Nicknamed the father of hip-hop DJ Kool Herc began playing hard funk records of the sort typified by James Brown. HipHop legend Kool Herc joins Bob Lee to share more about the mark he has left on the hip-hop industry coming up next.

Intro: Gail Nobles Photo: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Atomicbre - Transferred from https://en.wikipedia.org/ to Commons. Usage: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0 Bobby Womack was an American singer, musician and songwriter. Starting in the early 1950s as the lead singer of his family musical group the Valentinos and as Sam Cooke's backing guitarist, Womack's career spanned more than 60 years and multiple styles, including R&B, jazz, soul, rock and roll, doo-wop, and gospel. Do you know that Bobby Womack made a Christmas album? He made a Christmas album titled Traditions which is the 22nd studio album by Womack. The album was released on November 4, 1999 on The Rght Stuff Records. There are 17 tracks on the album. There are Christmas songs such as Dear Santa Clause, This Christmas, Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas, Christmas Ain’t Christmas, White Christmas, The First Noel, Hark the Harold Angels Sing, and a whole lot more. My favorite is Christmas Ain’t Christmas. I love his way of singing it. I like the way he was singing out on the record expressing himself. He had a soulful voice. I'm Gail Nobles. Thank you for listening. Have a Very Merry Christmas.

Intro by: Gail Nobles Welcome to the show everyone. Today's topic is Klique. Hello, I'm Gail Nobles. How many of you remember the R&B Trio group Klique? Howard Huntsberry, Isaac Suthers, and his sister Deborah Hunter. Maybe you remember their video Stop Doggin’ Me Around. The single was released in 1983. It made the US Billboard Hot 100 chart and was a cover version of Jackie Wilson's 1960 hit Stop Doggin’ Me Around which reached number 50 on the Hot 100 and number two on the US Billboard R&B chart in 1983. In total, they had nine songs on Billboards R&B chart. I love the way they sang Stop Doggin’ Me Around. I think it was Howard Huntsberry that was the lead singer of the song. He sounded a lot like Jackie Wilson. So if you're in the mood for some R&B and haven't heard Klique, check them out today.

Story by: Gail Nobles Keyboard intro by: Gail Nobles Photo: https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=User:Kingbout&action=edit&redlink=1 - Own work Usage: Wikipedia/https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0 Today's topic: Sunshine Anderson You've heard her lead single "Heard It All Before" released May 21, 2001. Peaked at number 18 on the billboard hot 100 and at number three on the R&B charts. I was hearing Anderson single a lot. It seems like everywhere I went I heard that song. It came from her album titled Your Woman released in April 2001. The album debuted at number eight on billboard hot 200 and number two on Top R&B charts. After hearing the chorus of the single Heard It All Before, it was the harmony that made me pay attention. Then I began to pay attention to Anderson's message. Then I had to hear it from the beginning. And whenever I heard it again and again, it made me tap my feet, and it made me think about dancing. I thought: OK! That song got me.” And I always listen when she gets to the part “Look who's hurting now” and wait for that line to be repeated. And off and on in the song I would hear the music play the chorus. Sunshine Anderson was getting down with a new sound and a new song. She had a unique way with how she sang the message to her song with the music and backup singers. The song is about a woman who was fed up and tired of lies from her man. I'm Gail Nobles. Sunshine Anderson is today's topic.

Story by: Gail Nobles Photo: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:GuillemMedina - Own work Usage: Wikipedia https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0 According to headlines, Melissa Barrera and Susan Sarandon and others in Hollywood lose jobs because of Israel-Hamas war. Susan was dropped by a talent agency after comments about the war. Well, if she has comments and opinions about it, she has a right to speak. Everyone has a right to their own opinion to say what they believe, and we all have a right to stand up for what we believe is right with God on our side if it’s right. And when we stand up we, should be able to do it without fear. Susan Sarandon is an actress. She has received a Daytime Emmy Award, six Primetime Emmy Awards, and nine Golden Globe Awards. In 2002, she was honored with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. Her acting career began in the drama film Joe (1970), the soap opera A World Apart (1970–1971), Thelma & Louise (1991), Blue Beetle (2023) just to name a few. Melissa Barrera is a Mexican actress. You may know her from her role as Sam Carpenter in the slasher films Scream (2022), and Scream VI (2023). I’m Gail Nobles.