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eat's -I Give
To Yo.,- Ibum came
o t, people aid it ounded Ii e
I tone, tbe triple pi tinum
- alee It 1:- t Forever".
pp rently th t didn't iter
to eitb' n beeau e hi Ibum
one platinum nd pa ned
three top ellin ingle. And if
you cratch neath the mu icel
urface eith ay you'll find a
. beartfel t me age underne tb.
Ri ht no eitb Sweat i cri -
ere in tbe country on bi
-n-iple Threat" tour ith Bell,
Biv, DeVoe, and Johnny Gill.
itb tbat kind of higb
po ered m ieal talent II on
one tour it could be ea y for
omebody to get lost in the buf
ne - but it on't be Keith! He
say e' got hi own identifiable
ouod tbat et bim apart. And
tbe fact that he ings lot about
relation hips i not unu ual -
tbat's good material for ny
Singer. But be says tbere's more
to his album than ju t love song .
There's a bole theme about tbe
nitty _gritty up an downs of
Entertainment i
Hi everyone out there in mu ic
land, another week ha lipped by
and I sincerely hope that the bit
of information that I hared with
you last week on the subject of
copyrighting your ongs was o.f
some help to you in your music
career.
Now for the ubject at hand, I
would like to make an an
nouncement to all who are listen
ing; -RBAD MY LIPS·, the
entertainment indu try is a busi
ne , and in order to participate
wbile enjoying some respect you
.... tICOH 'yourself iD • b i
ne -like manner.
,. tI n remember back in my
earlier year as an enrertainer
when I was always trying to get a
vocal group started, and I never
cared too much about the
m y be creamin Ii e cr zy, but
eit ' tal ip' to the eUa!
Since bi 1988 de ut album
-Make It Last Forever" launched
bi career with the ingle"l Want
Her" Keith' been on a non- top
roll. But el h till remem er
the e rly day ben h wor ed
a le d inger i th roup n med
Jamill - th t I 0 fe tured
AJyson Willi m .
After le ving J mill , ucce
c me quickly - the only tbing
Keith refu ed to believe it.
His Ibum welling Ii e hot
ea e but be ept bi day job
wor ing a tock broker'
istant on W II Street, until ·1
Walll Her" went number 1. Even
then, it a onl y on tempor ry
leave of absence. Today, t 0
back-ro-b c platinum albums
and a big following among the
ladies i gu ranteed to eep thi
young star on the chart ....
c bin
bi ne
in hi
22 ye
boo ill tell the tru
V nilla Ice nd hi Iter e 0,
Robby V n Wi le, Dependin
on bow much he 'enb nee ' hi
re ) life, thi 00 ure to be
more on the line of hort tory.
mmm... onder If hi Alph
h If brother nd BI ck tep
father re goin to be in it. If
you want to find out the boo i
due out tbis month.
Gregory Hine ha hung up
hi t P d ncin hoe and
trapped on gun in the movie
From tlte PP& T (People, "Eve 0/ Destruction". Hine
Place & Thill,s) File: S s y . play' Colonel Jim McQuade an
Neneh Cherry wbo' "Raw Like agent ent out to destroy a
Sushi- Ibum produced tbe hit robotic evil clone. Hines ay
abu
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By
WIlliam
Lee
pany, and to keep from embarra -
ing the org nlzation in question I
won't. It was like De Ja Vu. We
ere d 1-
ome
tbi question
sooner or 1 ter, but the producin
team of L.A. Reid nd B by! ce
is j t tbat, - team. Baby! ce
may appe r to out hine LA be
cau e be's a singer, and bas a
nero
If you're unsure on how to do
thi ,get book (from your local
library) on bu ines , etiquette.
manner. (etc.) and learn what
you need to know about how to
he busine .
Through hatever mean ,
eek dvice.
This information may even be
attain ble from an old high
school text, The Fundamental of
Busine ,and the IRS give out a
free booklet on how to start a
mall busines which i updated
ch year.
e mem IcM". __ Pt!itR-c
as-they took off their coats (as if
I were the problem ... ) and before
the meeting got started, the
drinker's in the room had to es
tablish their personal acquaintan
ces with the wet bar.
person's background, all
needed to know wa whether or
not the person could in&. In
some ca es if the guy could just
hold a note, he would do. Some
time the group would be
de pcrate, I mean desperate!
We would get together at
someone's house, in the back
room or down in a dusty base
ment, in g rage ,hell, ometime
on the front porch where all could
hear 0 r magnificent harmony.
(smile) Especially when we
thought we had one or two on
to r.
BUT HOLD 0 rio. I
haven't given you the whole pic-
-ture yet. We may have planned to
have rehearsal at 7:00, but by the
time we got our personal affairs
together. found transportation, or
even remembered that there was
a rehearsal session, the rehearsal
wouldn't get off the ground until I KNEW IMMEDIATELY
maybe 9:00. how this wa going to turn out.
Hang on, there's even more! Before you knew it everybody
Now when all of the members was at each other's throats, and
would drag i�, (most of. them one member took about a half
without an acceptable excuse) hour period of time to express
some members would have to "who he is", and if he felt the
take a drink, smoke a joint, or need, he would tell u who we
consume a portion of whatever it were also. The meeting grew
was that they were using at the very tiresome and resulted in cat
time, then we would commence fights, "lug" dropping and in
rehearsal! suits. No one conducted them-
Ha, what a rehear al it would selves in a business-like or a
be. Folks would forget their professional manner. Becau e of
parts, ome would be straining, this sho'rt example of their be
everybody would be conception- havior, I decided to decline a
lizing rna termin�'s that were put pOSition that I was asked to fill.
there soley to inform, correct, because I couldn't handle it!
and to instruct his fellow member This is the irresponsible be
on the theory of Cice part har- havior that I see everyday in the
mony. HOG WASH!! business. I have people approach
We would end those essions me when they learn that I'm a
like a bar-room fight, sometimes Songwriter and Producer. tell me
. even to the point of threatening that they sing, write, dance etc.,
each others ives. Some group and ask me for my business card.
huh? Well I've shared these ex- These people make all kinds
periences with you just to shQw of promises and then I never hear
you how some of u carry these� from them again. No follow
fundamental practices into out up's, and no en e of networking.
mQre mature adult lives. You've got to be business, and
For example, I wa recently you must establish yourself as a
asked to attend a meeting here in business entity and conduct your
Detroit with a local record com- behavior in a business like man-
So keep your dreams alive,
and I'll be seeing you behind the
scenes .... Good Luck!!!
ch pter ctivitie or to ma e a
don lion, c II 32-2225 or rite
'0 the orority at: P.O. Box
1 4106 Auburn Hill MI 48321.
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Walter Moraan, Proprietor, Upstairs Gallery aDd .
Studio, durin tbe Zeta Pbl B t. Art Sbow. .
LiJy Adams: Master :of
Transformation and Educa ion
"IT MUST BE hard on the
kid; e peeially the boys, - ahe
sid. "I think there I somethlnl
allre stve (the Rambo teaching
It lin with pink f�r girls Ind -
lue for boys) In tbe male charllc- .
. tcr and If they don't have lOme
place �o PU& that energy, someone
will ctcate lomething (negative)
for them to do."
wildered, if not bothered.
At Aknartoon' she received a
standing ovation as she mad. her'
way to the podi um. •
Adams is also f.eveloping
another character ,hat wi} be
modeled after Jo f phine Baker.
the character ha nut bun namelf"' - .
but .she I 80-year.:-oJd, Adams
said. The char� �ter, unlike
Mother Foster. whl' is straight
laced with 8. bit ',f wickne s
thrown in. wilJ wllk the edge.
Her piritual ,Ada 1$ aid, "Will
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be remini cence of ;i cer Rosette
Tharp."
As tale-nted as he is, Adam I
an educator, too. Her education
al root go deep. They go all the
way back to great-great
. grandfather who taught at Tu -
kegee Institute.
She aid there Is a lot of "un
tapped talent" in the high
schools. She also Id he is glad
he w n't "born" during �he e
Lily Ada
traafor ed.
. by NATHANIEL SCOTT
Correspondent
DETROIT -=- with the aid of a
cane, she ambled into the room.
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She 'Wore a big, tloppy black hat,
around her shoulders. a brown
fur. Each step scemed to have
been agony. And when she
reached the microphone and
began to peak, the room "ecame
quiet. Hushed. Reverent.
thus! Mother Inez B. Foster,
who is 93-years-young, began an
evening of poetry entertainment
at Aknartoon's Eatery on Wood
ward Avenue. She didn't sing,
al though he r repertoire ranges
from "Bach to Boogie." She
spoke.
Mother Foster is the creation
of Lily d. Adams, and Adams is a
school teacher who is the descen
dant of a long line of entertainers
and educ tor.
Ad . teaches m us ic at
Western High School. She has
al n toured as a pianist and
singer. she doesn't recall when
the idea for Mother Foster
materialized but she knows the.
character portrays her
grandmothers.
,"Mother Fo ter is strong," she
aid. "And who is going to tell a
93-year-old woman that he can,
or cannot say?"
MOTHER FOSTER recently
performed at Jehovah Missiona�y
Baptist Church on Jo Campau
Avenue. Some of tho e who aw
her performance are till baffled.
They don't "understand" how a
93-year-old woman ha "that
kind of energy." Yet! Adams
revealed herself; de-co turned,
o to peak. But the imagery was
o strong that it left some be-
"MIGHTY" MIKE TY ON wlll race one or the reate t ch lien-
s of his ua:-e r when he enter the rln at The Mlr, ae Hotel &
a lno a in t nadlan heavywel ht ch mploD Donov_.n
"Razor Rudduck (rl ht) for "live to pyper vie n ht on Mon- ..
day, March 18. ty on (39·1, 35 KO) nd Ruddock (25-1-1, 18
KO ) are r nked .1 and. '2, re pectively, by the World Boxln
Council, the World Boxing A oel tlon and the International
Boxln FederatloD. Tbe fight will be In t 9 pm. E terD on local
cable y tem round the couDtry.
times.
Adams allo think the idea for
a male actdemy milht be a GOd
idea beel the drop out rate,
aid, co mostly of boy .
A member of St Stephen AME
Ctlurc:h,600 tanford, Adams
one daughter, Camille Walker,
. who i senior at Wayne State
Univer ity.
On May 10 and 11, Mother
Fo ter Adami id, will be per
forming in a benefit at Christ
United Methodl t Church, 27830
Avondale, in Inkster.
The benefit, e Id, will aid
Black school ••
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