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She is the tenth and youngest child of the Jackson family, and made her debut at the MGM Grand. She starred in the variety television series The Jacksons in 1976 and went on to appear in other television shows throughout the 1970s and early 1980s, including Good Times, Diff'rent Strokes, and Fame. After signing a recording contract with A&M Records in 1982, she became a pop icon following the release of her third and fourth studio albums Control in 1986 and Rhythm Nation 1814 in 1989.

In 1991, Jackson signed the first of two record-breaking multimillion-dollar contracts with Virgin Records, establishing her as one of the highest-paid artists at the time. Prior to her first studio project with Virgin, she appeared in her first of several lead film roles in Poetic Justice in 1993 then released two studio albums which followed, Janet the same year and The Velvet Rope in 1997.

Janet Jackson released a total of 11 studio albums and has an equally successful acting career, starring in such films and tv shows that include Good Times, Diff'rent Strokes, Fame, Poetic Justice, Nutty Professor II: The Klumps, Why Did I Get Married?, Why Did I Get Married Too?, For Colored Girls, Janet Jackson. She has received numerous prestigious awards and accolades as a result of her high powered entertainment career. She is currently on her Together Again Tour and continues to be a true music legend and we celebrate her this black history month.

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Do you know Prince Rogers wrote his first song, “Funk Machine”, on his father’s piano when he was seven years old. Prince played football, basketball, and baseball and even became classical trained in ballet at the Minnesota Dance Theatre. He later become an advocate for dancers, and helped to save the Joffrey Ballet in Chicago during the 1990s.

In 1973, Prince met songwriter and producer Jimmy Jam and Pepe Willie. Pepe eventually formed the band 94 East, and hired André Cymone and Prince to record tracks in 1975. Willie wrote the songs, Prince contributed guitar tracks, and they both co-wrote the 94 East song, “Just Another Sucker”. The band recorded tracks which later became the album, Minneapolis Genius – The Historic 1977 Recordings.

Prince graduated in 1976. Shortly after graduation, Prince created a demo tape which was used to help him get a management contract. They create a new demo and then secured a recording contract with Warner Bros. Prince recorded, mixed and released his first album, For You, on April 7, 1978. He is credited with writing, producing, arranging, composing, and playing all 27 instruments on the recording. All except for “Soft and Wet“, which was co-written with producer Chris Moon. That song reached No. 12 on the Hot Soul Singles chart and No. 92 on the Billboard Hot 100.

The following year Prince formed his own band and they recorded and released the album, Prince. It was a hit reaching No. 4 on the Billboard Top R&B/Black Albums charts and was certified platinum. That album contained two R&B smash hits: “Why You Wanna Treat Me So Bad?” and “I Wanna Be Your Lover”. Both sold over a million copies. Prince was a prolific musician who released 39 albums during his life, with a vast array of unreleased material. Prince is a true music legends and we celebrate him this black history month.

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Do you know BlueBelles? They were an American girl band that was formed after the disbanding of two rival girl groups, Ordettes and the Del-Capris, They formed a new version of the former groups, and then changing their name to the Bluebelles. The founding members were Patti LaBelle (formerly Patricia Holte), Cindy Birdsong, Nona Hendryx, and Sarah Dash.

As the Bluebelles, and later Patti LaBelle and the Bluebelles, they found success with ballads in the doo-wop genre: "Down the Aisle (The Wedding Song)", "You'll Never Walk Alone", and "Over the Rainbow". Birdsong later departed to join The Supremes in 1967. The band then changed its look, musical direction, and style to re-form as Labelle in 1971. Their funk rock recordings of that period became cult favorites for their brash interpretation of rock and roll and for singing lyrical topics not typically addressed by female black groups.

They adapted a glam rock look and wearing outlandish space-age and glam costumes, the band found success with the proto-disco smash hit "Lady Marmalade" in 1974, leading to the album Nightbirds achieving gold success. They were the first contemporary pop group/band to perform at the Metropolitan Opera House. They were also the first black vocal group to appear on the cover of Rolling Stone.

Each of the band members later went on their own after the end of a tour in 1976, going on to have significant solo successes. Nona Hendryx went into her own solo career; Sarah Dash became a celebrated session singer; and Patti LaBelle enjoyed a very successful Grammy-winning career, with several top-20 R&B hits between 1982 and 1997, a number-one pop hit with "On My Own", and lifetime-achievement awards from the Apollo Theatre, World Music Awards, and BET Awards.

The group reunited for their first new album in 32 years, Back to Now in 2008. They performed together regularly until the death of Dash on September 20, 2021, at the age of 76. They are true music legends and we celebrate them this black history month.

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Do you know the Isley Brothers?

Their careers span over seven decades and the group has enjoyed one of the "longest, most influential, and most diverse careers in the pantheon of popular music.” Sixteen of their albums charted in the Top 40 and thirteen of those albums have been certified gold, platinum or multi-platinum.

The brothers began performing together in 1954, and patterning themselves after groups such as Billy Ward and His Dominoes and The Dixie Hummingbirds. Eventually, they got an opportunity to display their talents on the, Ted Mack's television show Amateur Hour, where they won first place and a watch as the prize. The group consisted of O'Kelly Isley Jr., Rudolph Isley, Ronald Isley with Vernon Isley singing lead vocals. The quartet soon began touring all over the eastern US, performing in a variety of churches. Vernon was struck by a car as he was riding his bike in his neighborhood when he was thirteen. He never recovered. This devastated the group and the remaining trio, O'Kelly,, Rudolph and Ronald disbanded the group. They were eventually persuaded to regroup, with Ronald, who had began singing at the age of two, assuming the lead vocal position. In 1957 the group decided to record popular music, with their parents blessing and they moved from Cincinnati to New York.

After moving to New York City in the late 1950s, the group had their first successes during these early years, and rose to prominence in 1959 with their fourth single, "Shout", written by the three brothers. This was their first single to chart on the Billboard Hot 100, and sold over a million copies. In the 1960s, the group recorded songs for a variety of labels, including the top 20 single "Twist and Shout" and the Motown single "This Old Heart of Mine (Is Weak for You)", before recording and releasing the Grammy Award-winning hit "It's Your Thing" on their own label, T-Neck Records.

In 1973 turned the original vocal trio into a complete band with the inclusion of younger brothers Ernie Isley (lead guitar & drums) and Marvin Isley (bass guitar), and Rudolph's brother-in-law Chris Jasper (keyboards & synthesizers).

For the next full decade, the group recorded a string of top-selling albums including 3 + 3, Between the Sheets, and The Heat Is On, with the latter peaking at number one on the Billboard 200 chart. The six-member band splintered in 1983, with Ernie, Marvin, and Chris Jasper forming the short-lived spinoff group Isley-Jasper-Isley. The oldest member, O'Kelly, passed in 1986. Afterwards Rudolph and Ronald released a pair of albums as a duo before Rudolph retired to a life in the Christian ministry in 1989. After multiple lineup changes, the remaining duo of Ronald and Ernie achieved mainstream success with the albums Mission to Please (1996), Eternal (2001) and Body Kiss (2003). Eternal spawned the top 20 hit "Contagious". As of 2023, the Isley Brothers continue to perform under the lineup of Ronald and Ernie. They just released a new album, titled Make Me Say It Again, Girl last September featuring collaborations with Beyoncé, 2 Chains, Earth, Wind & Fire, El DeBarge, and Snoop Dogg. They are true music legends and we celebrate them this black history month.

I created a coloring book spotlighting our musical legends from the late 1800s to now. Take the journey with us as we go through decades of music and musicians from Ragtime to Rap by purchasing a copy at EstellesBooks.com.

Do you know Sis Rosetta Tharpe? She’s famous for her guitar playing blended with melody-driven urban blues, traditional folk arrangements and incorporated a pulsating swing that was a precursor of rock and roll. Her influenced Chuck Berry, Elvis Presley, Johnny Cash, Little Richard, Aretha Franklin, Jerry Lee Lewis, Isaac Hayes, and many artists to come. She also inducted into the Blue and Rock n Roll Hall of Fames.

She began singing and playing the guitar at the age of six and was considered as a musical prodigy and started performing as Little Rosetta Nubin. 1921, a six year old, Rosetta, joined her mother as a regular performer in a traveling evangelical troupe. She was billed as a "singing and guitar playing miracle," she accompanied her mother in performances that were part sermon and part gospel concert for audiences across the American South.

In the mid-1920s, Tharpe and her mother settled in Chicago, IL. They performed religious concerts at the Roberts Temple, COGIC. They occasionally traveled to perform at church conventions throughout the country. Tharpe developed considerable fame as a musical prodigy, standing out in an era when prominent black female guitarists were rare. In 1934, at age 19, she married Thomas Thorpe, a COGIC preacher, who accompanied her and her mother on many of their tours. The marriage lasted only a few years, but she decided to adopt a version of her husband's surname as her stage name, Sister Rosetta Tharpe. Around this time she had developed her guitar style and blended it with melody-driven urban blues, traditional folk arrangements and a pulsating swing that was a precursor of rock and roll. She is truly a music legend and we celebrate her this black history month.

I created a coloring book spotlighting our musical legends from the late 1800s to now. Take the journey with us as we go through decades of music and musicians from Ragtime to Rap by purchasing a copy at EstellesBooks.com.

Did you know about Lil & Louis Armstrong? They met in King Oliver’s Creole Jazz Band. At the time Lillian was a pianist in the band and the bandleader requested that Louis moved from New Orleans to Chicago to be second cornet next to him. Louis was the new kid in town and Lil was the established player on the Chicago jazz scene. She wasn’t impressed with Louis at first, stated that “Louis was too fat and had a funny hairdo.” But Louis's charm and talent peaked her interest and she eventually fell for him. They were married within a year.

She saw him as a star with his name in lights and he just thought she was "crazy." But she was able convince him that she was right. After that they both changed the face of jazz. Who knows if Louis Armstrong’s genius would have touched the world as it did without the tireless effort and steadfast vision of Lil Hardin Armstrong. They went on to make great strides for the Jazz music genre. They both are truly music legends and we celebrate them this black history month.

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Did you know Edward “Dee Dee” Chandler? He was a famous drummer from New Orleans, LA, who played in both high class places like the Grunwald Hotels and in brothels back in the late 1800s. Back in those days multiple percussionists would share the stage, each playing a single drum. Sometimes bandleaders could reduce the amount of members in the percussion section by having drummers use a technique called “double drumming.”


This all changed when Mr. Chandler crudely concocted the earliest iterations of the bass drum pedal out of wood, rope, and in one case a piece of a milk carton from the grocery store where he worked. This allowed him and other drummers the ability to play more than one drum at the same time. The pedal was used to play the bass drum with his foot while freeing up his hands to play multiple drums and cymbals at the same d*** time. This allowed one man to do what was before a four man job. This changed the landscape of modern music forever.

Edward “Dee Dee” Chandler, an obscure figure in music history, a shadowy figure from the early New Orleans Jazz scene is truly a music legend and we celebrate him this black history month. You can too by coloring his picture, the only picture we were able to find online in our new Music Legendz Coloring Book Vol. 1. I created a coloring book spotlighting our musical legends from the late 1800s to now. Take the journey with us as we go through decades of music and musicians from Ragtime to Rap by purchasing a copy at EstellesBooks.com.

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