#Shalamar

[paulpingminho]

#tiles #star #geometric pattern #Pakistani architecture #Mughal architecture #Shalimar Gardens #Shalamar #Lahore #Pakistan #floor #mosaic

[singonavine71]

Shalamar (/ˈʃæləmɑːr/) is an American R&B and soul music vocal group active since the late 1970s and throughout the 1980s. Shalamar's classic line-up on the SOLAR label consisted of Howard Hewett, Jody Watley, and Jeffrey Daniel, together with dancer Jermaine Stewart. It was originally a disco-driven group created by Soul Train booking agent Dick Griffey and show creator and producer Don Cornelius.[1][2] They went on to be an influential dance trio, masterminded by Cornelius.[3] As noted in the British Hit Singles & Albums, they were regarded as fashion icons and trendsetters, and helped to introduce "body-popping" to the United Kingdom.[3] Their name was created by Griffey.[4]

#shalamar #80s nostalgia #80s music #80s #black culture #black archives #black music #80s songs #howard hewitt #jody watley #jeffrey Daniel

[mimi-0007]

Shalamar--- Jody watley, Jeffrey Daniel, Howard Hewett

#shalamar #black tumblr #black literature #black excellence #black community #black girl magic #blackexcellence365 #soulful #soul singer #80s fashion #80s music #soul #rhythm and blues

[helloparkerrose]

A Night To Remember (1982)

Shalamar

Friends

Solar Records

#1980s music #old school r&b #post-disco #r&b/soul #shalamar #a night to remember #friends #solar records #so addicting #Spotify

[mr-divabetic]

"If I've learned anything in this business, it's that you have to be fearless," says Grammy winner, Jody Watley. A former Soul Train dancer,  Jody Watley started as part of the Los Angeles-based vocal trio Shalamar, which scored a Top 10 single with “The Second Time Around” in 1979 and continued charting into the mid-’80s. Her first solo hit was “Looking for a New Love. "The music business is very hard on women over 22. You really have to prove yourself every time you make a record," she said. "Are you as vibrant as you used to be? Are you as sexy? So I really want to prove that a woman in her 30s can be all those things and more." Jody Watley’s story is one of overcoming the odds, the power of positivity, and defying expectations.

#jody watley #new love #Soul #soul music #rnbsong #rnb icons #rnb diva #rnb #soul train #shalamar #soul group #divas #diva #80s music

[culturalappreciator]

#shalamar #r&b/soul #funk #disco

[ladyinpink13]

Happy 65th Birthday to Jody Watley 🎂🎁🥳🎊🎉🎈

#jody watley #happy birthday #shalamar

[churchofsatannews]

The Metro #670

This week on The Metro, Warlock Jeff Ivins brings you the following bands for your time warp to the 1980s: The Belle Stars, Bucks Fizz, Shalamar, UB40 with Chrissie Hynde, Stray Cats, The Art Of Noise, The Blow Monkeys, Dexys Midnight Runners, Grandmaster Flash & The Furious Five, Kool & The Gang, Harold Faltermeyer, Madness, Frankie Goes To Hollywood, Japan, Level 42, Shakin’ Stevens, and…

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#Beastie Boys #Bucks Fizz #Dexys Midnight Runners #Frankie Goes to Hollywood #Grandmaster Flash & The Furious Five #Harold Faltermeyer #Japan #Kool & The Gang #Level 42 #Madness #radio free satan #Shakin&039; Stevens #Shalamar #Stray Cats #The Art of Noise #The Belle Stars #The Blow Monkeys #the metro #UB40 with Chrissie Hynde #warlock jeff ivins

[withbellzon]

1996

#my uploads #this is for the lover in you #babyface #ll cool j #shalamar #howard hewett #1990s #90s #r&b #hip hop #rap #withbellzon

[thedivineerotic]

What the Funk?!

Vol 1. Part 1

The Foundation of Vaporwave: SynthFunk Pioneers

Vaporwave has been one of my favorite niche subgeneres of music for years now and its easy to tell why. I'm an old soul that was born to relatively older parents who grew up in the 1970s and whose primes were in the 1980s and 1990s so soul, funk and rhythm runs through my veins in ways my peers were not able to understand and ostracized me for. Once I latched onto vaporwave, my ear was able to detect many samples from songs I had heard growing up and been exposed to new ones. Vaporwave is slowed-down (or what we in the South called “Chopped and Screwed” back in the day) synth funk and new wave tracks from the 1980s and early 1990s set to colorful nostalgic yet futurist aesthetics and anime from around that time.

It is where the past and the future meet in the middle and dance all night.

And it has become one of the loves of my life, discovering vintage music that makes you want to get up, dance and be happy.

Here are some recent favorites that I have been hooked on since the past year or so.

The System

Rhythm and Romance (1989)

Description: Coming from in my honest opinion perhaps the single most underrated act in funk and R&B in the 1980s, this album fits its title perfectly. Mic Murphy and David Frank are literally on fire in this album even though none of their past efforts left anything to be desired either. They were vaporwave before vaporwave was a thing. To me, their pop flavored, R&B blessed, synth funk sound and angsty romantic lyrics are quintessential vaporwave material. There is no way you can listen to this album and not want to move, not want to groove, not want to have fun. What they lacked in mainstream success, they more than made up for in giving us the textbook definition of a "buried treasure" in multiple projects that I feel privileged to have dug up. Though having already been making music together for the majority of the decade at this point, the duo arguably hit their zenith on this album and the groove tells it.

Standout Tracks:

Midnight Special

Soul to Soul

Have Mercy

Kashif

Kashif (1983)

Description: Here is another synth funk pioneer who didn't get near the mainstream appreciation that he should have. But being primarily a producer, its natural that he stayed relatively behind the scenes but this time he truly let himself shine through some of the grooviest, smoothest synth baselines you will probably ever hear in your life. His programming and keyboarding skills set the tone for later funkateers such as Teddy Riley and Babyface to take to another level in the 1990s. However, Kashif and this project stand as the prototype in its their own right with synth and baselines both ahead of its time and someone just right on time for his era. RIP to the Great Kashif and before falling down the rabbit hole of his productions for others, hear the man shine on his own in this vaporwave masterclass.

Standout Tracks:

I Just Gotta Have You (Lover Come Turn Me On)

Help Yourself to My Love

Stone Love

Loose Ends

Zagora (1986)

Description: In the abundant world of 1980s dance music, the Brits had something to say. And no one made it as loud and clear as the funk, house and R&B group Loose Ends. These folks produced some of the most addictive combinations of House music and synth funk ever heard on record and set the tone for House music to become the penultimate underground genre in the early 1990s with R&B House legends like Crystal Waters and Soul II Soul. Though their discography goes deep, this album presents them at maybe the height of their powers, delivering a world class synth funk album just before hip hop influenced New Jack Swing came the following year to take over the R&B music scene.

Standout Tracks:

Stay a Little While Child

Slow Down

Ooh You Make Me Feel

Shalamar

Friends (1983)

Description: Achieving perhaps the most mainstream success out of anyone on this list, it's easy to see why Shalamar is still celebrated as icons of early 1980s dancefloor scene to this day. In a time where supergroups still dominated the funk and R&B scene, these three forged their own path and released some of the funkiest grooves you will hear from around that time. What made their sound stand out came from their unique mixture of standard R&B and funk with the then-new new wave scene that was coming out of Britain. As a result, their music has stood the test of time and influenced vaporwave mixes produced by both Black and white, British and American lovers of the genre alike. In my opinion, this album is their most solid and serves to represent the danceable, funky feel of the entire 1980s.

Standout Tracks:

I Can Make You Feel Good

Help Me

There It Is

#future funk #funk music #disco funk #funkadelic #soul music #r&b #music #dance music #obscure music #black music #80s bands #80s aesthetic #80s anime #80s music #vaporfunk #vaporwave #the system #loose ends #shalamar #hidden gems #old soul

[paulpingminho]

#trees #park #spring #greenery #Shalimar Gardens #Shalamar #Lahore #Pakistan

[mias-playground]

Shalamar - Over And Over (Official Video)

Jeffrey Daniel, Jody Watley and Howard Hewett Shalamar at Wikipedia

#mias playground #celebs #music #shalamar #jeffrey daniel #jody watley #howard hewett

[mimi-0007]

#jeffrey daniel #shalamar #old school music #black tumblr #black literature #black excellence #black community #black girl magic

[gorefanatic]

#shalamar #spotify #1980s

[kaydub80]

In a sense, Fleetwood Mac can be compared to another group: Shalamar, namely because both groups had frequent lineup changes that affected their ascension from star band to superstar band.

Back in 2009, TVONE's Unsung series highlighted how the latter group's changes (plus some jarring allegations that Jeffrey Daniels abused Jody Watley that the show left out) derailed their chances at superstardom as it went from a disco group to an R&B group in the early '80s.

The contrast is that the frequent lineup changes actually helped Fleetwood Mac to become superstars as it went being a British blues band to a Transatlantic arena rock band. It was last spring when I was able to listen to just how different Fleetwood Mac sounded when Peter Green still led the group.

#music #fleetwood mac #shalamar #television #tvone #unsung

[djevilninja]

You know I really love you, And I paid for my mistakes, yes I did, girl. The more I try to hide my feelings, baby, This old heart gets in the way, And love won't let me wait.

Shalamar - The Second Time Around (12" Mix)

#shalamar #howard hewitt #jody watley #music #RnB #disco #70s #classic #groove #west coast #the second time around