From pounding players on a field to pounding beats in a studio, OG Rolla is a triple threat in the River Region’s music business artist, producer and engineer.
“I actually was an artist before I was a producer,” OG said. “I had a lot of music up, and took it down. I’m in the process of kind of remastering things. Going to make a lot of beats over, and going to re-record stuff.”
OG said his upcoming album of that work will be a mix of hip hop and R&B.
“It’s not me singing the R&B. I wish I could,” he said. “I have a good friend of mine that I grew up with, and she’s going to do some work on it.”
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Montgomery moves Friday s Stars and Stripes Forever celebration to the train shed
The city s free Independence Day celebration will be hosted by Rick Joyner and Jessie Lynn, with music and dance acts and a fireworks show
A chance of storms isn t enough to keep Montgomery s Independence Day celebration down Friday.
On Tuesday, the city announced that the free Stars and Stripes Forever celebration had been moved from the amphitheater to the Union Station Train Shed, 210 Water Street, with music acts and dance presentations from 6-9 p.m. A lot of talent from the River Region on one stage Friday night, said country artist and radio host Jessie Lynn, a Prattville native known as Alabama s Singing Cowgirl. She ll co-host the night with celebrity DJ and entertainer Rick Joyner.
As a child, Dr. Raven Jackson-Jewett could have lost her dream of becoming a veterinarian. After all, there were barely any role models in the nation who looked like her.
Fortunately, she found motivation from her parents, education at Tuskegee University and a spark of inspiration from the Montgomery Zoo. I just believed that I could be whatever I wanted to be, she said.
Today, she s the attending veterinarian and director of veterinary care at Chimp Haven, a 200 acre chimpanzee sanctuary in Keithville, Louisiana. There, known as Dr. J , she helps care for more than 300 chimpanzees.
The work is rewarding, and has been captured for the world to see in a six-part National Geographic documentary Meet the Chimps, released in 2020 on Disney+.
“I asked God to be with me, and to give me the strength to remain nonviolent, and to forgive them,” Zwerg said.
Zwerg’s story is a part of the new Spike Lee produced movie “Son of the South,” which releases Friday. It’s based on Bob Zellner’s autobiography “The Wrong Side of Murder Creek.”
On May 20, 1961, the Freedom Riders arrived in Montgomery attempting to test the law and integrate bus travel across the South.
“In that instant, I had the most amazing religious experience of my life, said Zwerg in a recent telephone conversation. I felt a peace come over me. I felt, it’s tough to explain, but that I was just surrounded by love.”