Despite differences in age, nationality, race, and whatever else, a gem is a valued treasure. Can you hear the ones we found?. Featuring artists like: Kamasi Washington,Khruangbin,Jacob Collier,Vulfpeck,Leslie Odom Jr.,Nina Simone,Bettye LaVette,Jon Batiste,Chance the Rapper,
Making this playlist shows me just how wide the distance is between most of the music I enjoy listening to and the music I can sing. Hip-hop is a case in point. I love listening to it, but I sound too much like Niles Crane to really participate. Also, rap is not generally a very lullaby-friendly genre. Or so I thought, until I encountered the mellifluous sounds of Chancellor Johnathan Bennett, better known to the world as Chance The Rapper…
I remember hearing this song months after the concert and being plagued by the feeling that I heard it before, but neither did I remember where or by whom. But that didn’t matter because the blissfulness that overcame me was enough for me to know that I’d found a song I never even knew I needed.