Maya Angelou’s Hip Hop Album
This November we will be blessed with the release of one of Maya Angelou’s final projects before her passing in May 2014.
A Hip Hop album entitled Caged Bird Songs featuring a mix of her iconic words and poetry, in collaboration with Shawn Rivera, and RoccStarr.
The Album was named “Caged Bird Songs” after Maya’s most famous piece of writing I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, an extraordinary autobiographical series, one of the most inspiring authors of our time recalls–with candor, humor, poignancy and grace–how her journey began.
The late author’s Grandson, Colin A. Johnson, has spoken out about the album release saying that his Grandmother “loved” the project from the beginning and that “She had a lot of energy around it … She saw hip-hop as this generation’s way of speaking and conveying a message.”
The project will be released on the 4th November 2014 by Smooch Music, produced by musicians Shawn Rivera and RoccStarr.
Colin Johnson at his grandmother’s memorial service at Mount Zion Baptist Church in Winston-Salem, N.C., May 29, 2014.
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