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...respect it for its simplicity." Seger has also lived in a number of other places, including Virginia Beach, Va. (where she embraced rap), and London, (where she launched her singing career in earnest at age 19). Her music reflects her itinerant upbringing: her album has some elements of hip-hop (it was mixed by Commissioner Gordon, who also worked on Lauryn Hill's hip-hop masterpiece The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill), but it also features some rock-'n'-roll guitars and a bit of country twang. "I'm a soul singer," says Seger. "But I like to rock...
...soul singer Res (How I Do) and soul-rock crooner Nikka Costa (Like a Feather, the single from her recently released album Everybody Got Their Something, is one of the year's catchiest songs). All these young soul crooners make music that's tinged with rap rhythms: the hip-hop gives their work an edge, while the soul makes it all go down easy. Seger's work stands out because she takes a slightly different route--leading her style of hip-hop-tinged pop-soul down the back roads of East Texas...
...night job was the one that really paid off. The young performer, perhaps moving to the industrial beat of the factories around him, helped loose the lightning-charged sound that would power American music - blues, rock and even hip-hop - for the remainder of the century. Hooker, like Muddy Waters, B.B. King and Elmore James, took the Mississippi Delta blues and shocked it into modernity, revitalizing the still-youthful music with electric guitars. Hooker's songs were desperate and desolate but enlivened with boogie-woogie energy. His instrumental skills matched his vocal prowess; his guitar playing was spare, sharp...
...shame you failed to mention even one classical musician. As we sink deeper into the morass of mediocrity, classical music is one of the few things of quality and beauty that remain. Rock, pop, hip-hop and rap have done little if anything for the history of music, and most of what is out today will probably be forgotten in a few years. ANNE BERNIE CALUWAERT High Springs...
...such dandies as "chillin' like a villain," "whassup?" "thanks, dogg" and "no pain, no gain." When a reporter noted Ichiro's smooth feet, Ichiro nodded, smiled and said, "They sexy." He has picked up bits and pieces of English by listening to conversations, as well as television, movies and hip-hop. "I very much like hip-hop," he says in English, pronouncing hip as heep...