Word: chel
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...SHELL NDEGEOCELLO IS A gay, black, single mother with a shaved head and a nearly unpronounceable name (actually, it's Me-shell Nuh-day-gay-O-chel-lo). Not the usual stuff of rock stardom. Female rockers have a better shot, convention holds, if they are boy toys with cute, catchy names like . . . Madonna. NdegeOcello spent two years trying to interest record companies in her iconoclastic music, a shotgun marriage of funk, jazz, hip-hop and angry poetry that she calls "brokenhearted revolutionary love songs." Finally, in despair and ready to enroll in barber school, she got a phone call...
...took its manners from Washington: most of the celebrities dressed conservatively and behaved decorously. And the civilians lined up for the big parade, where the Lesbian & Gay Bands of America played and Girl Scouts passed out American flags and AIDS ribbons. A Clinton spotting could cue an impromptu chant: "Chel-sea! Chel-sea!" at the hot-ticket MTV Ball. Though the rockers booed Tipper Gore for her lyric-sanitation campaign, they gave a hand to Clinton's rowdy half-brother Roger. And so did the music industry. Atlantic Records snagged him to preserve forever his rendition of Sam Cooke...
Slow Bob in the Lower Dimensions by Henry Selick, The Potato Hunter by Timothy Lee Hittle, All My Relations by Johanna Priestly, and Choreography for Copy Machine by Chel White...