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...Since its inception, the play has become a cultural phenomenon, tied to raising awareness of violence against women. Proceeds from this production went to V-Day 2006 Spotlight Global Campaign on Comfort Women, the Network/La Red, the Louisiana Coalition Against Domestic Violent for victims of Hurricane Katrina, and El Amel Centers in Sudan...
That won't happen with Groove Theory. The New York City-based alternative R.-and-B. duo, composed of producer-instrumentalist Bryce Wilson and singer-lyricist Amel Larrieux, have a hit (their sweetly insinuative single Tell Me has sold more than half a million copies), and, happily, the rest of their debut CD, titled simply Groove Theory (Epic), amply lives up to that first smash...
...titled first album from the New York City-based alternative rhythm and blues duo Groove Theory. The album is remarkably consistent; every song amply lives up to the promise of the sweetly insinuating first single "Tell Me". Groove Theory is a restrained affair, with reservoirs of emotion. Singer-lyricist Amel Larrieux's voice is a placid soprano with an intriguing hint of hidden hurt that evokes the gently aching style of Sade, or Beth Gibbons of the British band Portishead...
...Allah! Ya Allah! [O Lord! O Lord!]" The cries were from a 15-year-old schoolgirl named Amel Sharif, a patient at Amira Alia Hospital in Hebron in the Israeli-occupied West Bank. Between her screams, Amel tried to explain what had happened to her four days earlier...
Right now, the most diverting art shop in Manhattan is the Amel Gallery, an outpost of the avantgarde. Among works by six artists are paintings that talk, roar, screech, and make sounds like demented woodpeckers trying to fell a redwood forest...