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TheHistoryMakers

Check out our latest video, MusicMakers: This Is Our History, which premiered last night & please share with any friends or family who might enjoy it!

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4 years ago | [YT] | 2

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Have you watched Sugar Blue's tribute to Willie Dixon yet?

In honor of African American Music History Month, we salute blues musician and harmonica genius, Sugar Blue. By the age of eighteen, Blue was performing on the streets of New York and sitting in on sessions with blues and jazz legends Muddy Waters, Sun Ra, Roosevelt Sykes, and Brownie McGhee. In 1977, he moved to Paris, where he was discovered by The Rolling Stones’ Mick Jagger, who asked him play with the band as a session player. Over the next few years, Blue recorded the harmonica parts for three The Rolling Stones’ albums: Some Girls in 1978; Emotional Rescue in 1980; and Tattoo You in 1981. In 1978, Blue toured the U.S. with both The Rolling Stones and Louisiana Red, with whom he had recorded two albums. In 1980 Blue released his debut solo album, Crossroads, and in 1982 he relocated to Chicago, where he signed a record deal with Alligator Records and joined Willie Dixon’s Chicago Blues All Stars. Blue recorded several albums throughout the 1980s and in 1985 he received the Grammy Award for Best Traditional Blues Album.

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TheHistoryMakers

Tune in TODAY at 12 PM EST for “Blacks In Finance: A Rich History” for a fascinating discussion about African Americans’ role in finance in both the past and the present featuring a panel of successful financial leaders and entrepreneurs including CNBC’s Senior Personal Finance Correspondent Sharon Epperson, Co-Founder and a Managing Partner at Fairview Laurence Morse, Founder of Smith Graham Gerald Smith, Founder of Ariel Investments John W. Rogers, Jr. and Senior VP & Editor-in-Chief of Black Enterprise Derek Dingle.

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