Melanie Charles is a Haitian American, Brooklyn Born Songstress. This Afro beauty has toured the world many times over and has a thing or two to say about love, travel and what it means to be empowered by ones own natural beauty. Check Melanie’s raw performance of her original song “Pat Yo Afro” http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wu3Z1PRXqc0 Twitter:@melaniecharles Instagram:@melaniecharles http://melaniecharlesmusic.bandcamp.com Click to view and vote!
They like to drift in Poland….
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I love everything about this photoset
The lack of condescension in cultural sharing
The nonsexualization
The contextual foreignness of firm breasts in a society that doesn’t use bras
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Musician Hazel Scott, 1940s.
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CAPSULOCITY Presents Melanie JB Charles (vox &flute) & Jonathan Michel (Bass) performing “Choucoune” the Haitian folk song, which was rewritten in English as “Yellow Bird” and was covered by Celia Cruz.
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My first video “Drifting (Tomo)”: Inspired in Japan, Recorded in Brooklyn, and Shot in HAITI! Watch and Share!
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HAPPY BIRTHDAY QUINCEY!!! (fellow Pisces)
“Walking in Space”
Featuring the BADDEST CATS!! Hubert Laws on Flute (WOO!!), Freddie Hubbard on Trumpet (woo!), Rahsaan Roland Kirk on Sax (WOO!) Either Grady Tate or Bernard Purdy on Drums, Ray Brown on Bass, JJ Johnson on T-Bone and many more! WOOOO!!!
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Drifting in Japan….
http://melaniecharlesmusic.bandcamp.com
Photo By.. ©Isabelle Maiko Morin 2012
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“Nice jazz/soul/chill groove that’s perfect for crusing down to the beach, up to the mountains or just laying in the grass, counting the clouds…” -Bob Davis of Soul Patrol
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