Hey! Check your inbox. I have been so absent. I hope that everything is going well for you!

Great library <3

Hey!! So glad to see you in my shout box. Thank you for the love. I hope that all is well! ;-)

Loving your Benin Ivory Mask! There is one in New York at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, but I am dying to see the Benin Bronzes at the British Museum. One day I will see them. Hope you are well!

Hi! :) join if you like my group. Thanks :) Happy listening.

thanks for the accept, great charts

Thanks for lurking, nice taste btw.

Thanks for the introduction to Laura! I'm not familiar with her.

Have you listened to Bruno Mars' Unorthodox Jukebox? I was surprised! Love it. Hope all is well!

Did you ever see this? "Prince shuts down 'Le Petit Prince' http://www.nme.com/news/prince/67200

Great taste. ;) Greetings from Germany

Thank you for the support, Little Ze. So sad. I know Chuck Brown's legacy will live on forever. xox

Great selection of tunes

thank U and likewise!! :)

over 10,000 plays on Prince..wow!! thanks 4 adding me! :)

Hiya Ze thanks for the love :) Is the new Beyonce album good?

Your country is beautiful! I want to visit again! I've only been twice! :( The last time I was there was in 1993. I was visiting Oxford and Cambridge University. Gorgeous. I was trying to do an exchange program with either school but my college at the time wouldn't allow it. I was so upset!!!

Wow! Thank you so much for the links. I need to visit London again and see the beautiful art there at the British museum. I was so upset when I came in 2007 and the exhibit on Benin art wasn't being displayed :( Here are my pictures from my visit -> http://www.flickr.com/photos/2serenity/sets/72157601978972967/ You be good!! xo

Are you reading my mind!?! That's a Benin Pendant that you have as your avatar. I have a poster of it. I'm a Benin art lover! See here http://www.metmuseum.org/works_of_art/collection_database/arts_of_africa_oceania_and_the_americas/queen_mother_pendant_mask_iyoba/objectview.aspx?collID=5&OID=50011418 I hope life is going well for you. Keep smiling!!

nice track listings. Thanks friend invite...

got you this week zee ;-)

okay will do? I need to put up some Erykah

Hi music buddy hope all is well ;-)

Ooh, thank you! xox

No worries. Gr8=(great) enjoy keep me posted on some new stuff my friend over the pond. Peace PJ.

m8:)=mate eh. I am still analog not digital. Peace.

Click here--->http://www.last.fm/group/Networking+for+the+Nu-Soul (we'd love to have you:)

LMAO on your new avatar picture! Classic. Hope you are well! xox

OMG - thank you thank you! :) I think I heard he is going to be performing in France!! You should go!! :) xox

I wasn't too intrigued to spend a couple of hundred $$ to hear Shockadelica. Of course I was curious but I said screw it. If Prince does Michael Jackson's, "She's Out of My Life," he may lose me as a loyal supporter. That's sacred territory. It hurts me that Al B. Sure had the NERVE to record, "She's Out of My Life:" b/c it was not that great and WE ALL KNOW HE CANNOT SING IN A FALSETTO. :X We were DUPED in the 1980s b/c we thought, "oh he is cute, blah blah." But, LORD, I wanted to SMACK him when I heard about this cover of "She's Out of My Life." What's so funny about all of this is that I have met Al B. Sure back in the day (80s), & I had the BIGGEST crush on him. I grew out of it. Then, this SUMMER my Dad & I were at the Essence Festival & GUESS who introduced themselves to my Dad? Mister Al B. Sure. I wasn't there but Al B. Sure SWORE he knew my Dad thinking he was a pilot. My Dad had NO IDEA who he was until my Dad recalled that I liked him back in the day. HILARIOUS to me :)

Wow, that was actually pretty impressive but the voices weren't my taste but they made a great effort. However, I wish some of these acts realize that although we LOVE Prince, Prince does NOT want you to remake or cover his music. However, he is the BIGGEST hypocrite because he covers other artist's work. Example: La La means I love you by the Delfonics. Prince covered that on his Emancipation CD. I know he has done others but that one was so BOLD of him in my humble opinion. That song is TOO sacred to have his falsetto on. Sorry but he kinda irked me personally there. I MAY hurt him with my flat iron if he messes with my Michael Jackson. I really will! [LMAO at myself because I know I will get to him on that.] This is old but did you see this? http://www.wired.com/listening_post/2008/06/prince-sues-to/

oh wow. I haven't seen that link. Thank you! I will be listening. I hope you are well! I've been reading, Tyka Nelson's book, Mama Never Taught Me to Sing. Fascinating! http://www.thedawnexperience.co.uk/showthread.php?t=1079

I'm pretty shocked by his passing because of HOW he died. So was it suicide, mistake? I mean ughhhhh. Wild day : X

I totally missed this album but then I don't own all his albums but a few. I have the greatest hits of the Police somewhere for I adored the Police as a child. "Fragile" is so beautiful to me but then I am loving the entire album. My favorite track though is this one: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n8YWhZGhTEg all instrumental and fluid to me. Thanks for letting me share :)

Do you like Sting? I recently bought an album of his that I was unfamiliar with. I don't have all his work but I do like him. His album, The Living Sea is a delight. You can listen to it here on last.fm here: (it's chill out/ambient) http://www.last.fm/music/Sting/The+Living+Sea

I've done that plenty of times of buying CDs for I was too lazy to dig up what had. LMAO or I go to the library and check out CDs that I had but I can't find them. My music library is totally OFF the chain (been collecting CDs since 1987) I even have musicians contacting me asking me information and I am like HOW AM I SUPPOSED to know this is just a hobby for me contact a music researcher! ROFLMAO. I lived in Iowa for a short time (3 years) and when I was out there I was able to find some great music deals from used music stores. That is when my collection escalated. I had to control my urge to buy but I could not stop. The deals were unbelievable. I haven't been able to find deals like that since : X

Have you ever heard the album Grand Central Station 2000 with Larry Graham? Prince produced the album. I was reading the liner notes and was CRYING Of laughter!! http://www.amazon.com/GCS-2000-Graham-Central-Station/dp/B00000I105/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=music&qid=1244772547&sr=8-1

My yearbook picture is SCARY. I hope no one ever finds those pictures and put them online : X amel and her daughters are too precious. Makes me want to consider having at least one child! :) Hope you are doing well!