Question

By the late 1960s, rock had become a genre almost totally dominated by white artists. Consider the following non-white rock artists:

• Carlos Santana
• Joan Armatrading
• Living Colour

Choose one artist and briefly discuss their biography and career. How would you characterize his/her/their music? Has the artist discussed his/her/their relationship to the whiteness of rock?

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Joan Armatrading is credited to be the first black female singer/songwriter to gain prominence on the British music scene. She offered a unique take on folk and reggae that was indeed highly influential to artists like Tasmin Archer and Tracy Chapman.Born in St Kitts in 1950, she moved to Birmingham with her family when she was eight, where she taught herself to play piano and guitar.

She began her career playing small sets of her own music at local clubs as a teenager.While touring with a production of Hair, she met Pam Nestor, who became her writing partner and the two collaborated on material that later featured on her first album. After this, Joan went solo and released Back to the Night. Her first commercial success was with her self titled release in 1976, and she followed that with 1977's Show Some Emotion and 1978's To The Limit.Beginning in 2014, Armatrading set out on a major solo world tour which she billed not as a farewell to performing, but as her last extensive tour.

It was documented on the 2016 DVD and album Me Myself I World Tour. That same year, she composed a set of songs for an all-female production of William Shakespeare's The Tempest which was released as The Tempest Songs. With 2018's Not Too Far Away, she returned to the major-label system, signing with BMG and releasing her first unthemed studio album since Lovers Speak. Similar to her late-period releases, it was self-produced, self-recorded, and performed entirely by herself .Armatrading's loyal cult following has kept her touring and recording for more than 25 years.

Her classic songs - Love and Affection, Drop the Pilot, Me Myself and I have earned her Grammy nominations.

She has also accumulated 18 gold records, and 10 platinum records in her career, as well as critical acclaim. She is also in the enviable position of choosing her own touring and recording timetable.

I simply am amazed by the passion and thrill in her voice. Not only does she inspire many but also act as the ambassador for other women by motivating them to rise against all odds and become successful woman.

She has once discussed about her struggles to be a black and try against all odds.

But as they say, the talent outshines everything in life and what she had in her was so much gifted that it rose in favor for her to be where she is today.

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