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Be Good is the second studio album by American jazz musician Gregory Porter. It was released through Motéma Music on 15 February 2012. [ 7 ] The album charted in Belgium , France and the Netherlands .
Porter released two albums on the Motéma label together with Membran Entertainment Group, 2010's Water and 2012's Be Good, before signing with Blue Note Records (under Universal Music Group) on May 17, 2013. His third album, Liquid Spirit, was released on September 2, 2013, in Europe and on September 17, 2013, in the US. [6]
"Sweet Country Love Song" Jools Holland and His Rhythm and Blues Orchestra The Golden Age of Song "No Fundo do Teu Silêncio" Meeco: Beauty of the Night "Nowhere to Run" 2013 Zbonics Time to Do Your Thing "She Danced Across the Floor" "Issues of Life" "She's Gone" "Just in Time" "Satiated (Been Waiting)" Dianne Reeves: Beautiful Life "Losin ...
Porter became aware of the music of Nat King Cole while growing up in Bakersfield, California, during the 1970s, where his mother was a Baptist minister, and in a household from which his father was absent. [3] [4] [5] When he was five or six, Porter wrote a song that he performed for his mother. She told him, "Boy, you sound like Nat King Cole."
Liquid Spirit is the third studio album by American jazz musician Gregory Porter.It was released through Blue Note Records on September 2, 2013. [11] The album won the Grammy Award for Best Jazz Vocal Album in 2014.
As of June 2017, the album is ranked number 27 in Jazz digital albums on Amazon. [7]Kevin Le Grande of BBC Music noted that "Gregory Porter has a voice and musicality to be reckoned with" and that Mr. Porter could help fill the gap of new male African-American jazz singers. [8]
I'm alive.What an accomplishment. That’s the first lyric [on Black Mona Lisa]: “I'm alive.What an accomplishment for my kind.” Our government means to kill Black men, Black people.
Take Me to the Alley is the fourth studio album by Gregory Porter, released on May 6, 2016, through Blue Note Records. It earned Porter a 2017 Grammy Award for Best Jazz Vocal Album. [13] The album was recorded in Hollywood and New York City between September and October 2015. [14]