The 33-year-old artist, who releases music mononymously as Eyme (pronounced like Amy), has grown into a woman who knows exactly who she is and what she wants. Her latest offering, “Busy,” is a hazy and pulsating record, replete with the essence of the late 90s R&B soundscape. Santos is polished and shows her true strengths through her ability to maintain and maneuver her vocals behind lush keyboards and triumphantly jazzy horns. But for the veteran artist, it has been a long journey to this point. “Busy” serves as a reintroduction. Santos wiped the majority of her old music off the deep ruins of the internet. You can still find a few covers on YouTube that she did about a decade ago, and with a bit more digging, you might stumble across her somewhat secretive EP,
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A Sun Ra tribute concert by a member of the pathbreaking pop group Labelle leads to reflections on how Black women artists and scientists have often been at the vanguard of their disciplines though most are still awaiting due recognition.
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On the last night of Black History Month, February 29, 2020, I attended a concert held in the Temple of Dendur, at New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art the last such event that I would attend, it turned out, for a very long time. Those who have visited the room will know that it resembles a massive display case: a pavilion-like wall of glass exposes the temple to the sky, and a reflecting pool frames it below. On this night, the temple glowed lavender in the dark behind 600 folding chairs that had been set up to face a makeshift stage. A DJ played songs like Parliament’s “Mothership Connection (Star Child)” while four d