Before arriving at GPB, Sonia Murray was also Digital Content Manager a few blocks down 14th Street at CBS Radio in a professional journey that began as a general assignment writer, business reporter and pop music critic for the AJC (Atlanta Journal-Constitution). And to end this with one more acronym, she's also a proud HU (Howard University) graduate!
Hip-hop may have originated in New York, but the genre now finds many of its current hitmakers in Georgia. And there are at least 50 important moments in hip-hop involving the state's artists, record labels or just events that happened here.
Ahead of Beyoncé's three concerts at Mercedes-Benz Stadium this weekend, a producer of her Renaissance album gives the inside story on some of her biggest hits.
TLC's look, hit songs and 'we-can-battle-with-the-guys' dance moves distinguished the Atlanta trio in the 1990s, but a new documentary proves their impact lives on.
Hip-hop has been many things in its half century of existence, and "suitable for children" probably isn't what immediately comes to mind. But one book challenges that perception.
"A work realized this way needed to be able to come home to Atlanta," noted Leatrice Ellzy Wright, a Sr. Director of Programming at the Apollo Theater who also still calls South Fulton home.
"I remember these grape vine things that would hang, and we would swing over the creek on them. My mom would have died if she'd seen that. I inherited that [adventurousness] from dad. I get it honest."
"Great dance song that got me going so hard one night I fell on my backside!" (Spoiler alert: Sharon doesn't go into more graphic detail here, but we can share that it DID involve wine.)
This expansive, must-see take on hip hop at the half century mark, told in four, one-hour parts never squarely turns its cameras to southern artists and their contributions to the genre. Here's why.
The news that It's The Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown won't be airing on PBS this year may thud like a rock in your trick or treat bag, but in the spirt of the ever-hopeful Linus we still bring you good television. And radio. (And of course, tidings.)
"This was meant to identify communities that have been totally underrepresented. Haven't had a seat at the table...or even more specifically, on the stage."
