Sweet Honey in The Rock
Sweet Honey in the Rock are a dynamic, virtuosic, all-female a cappella group with a repertoire rooted in African choral, blues, gospel, and jazz. Earning an international following since their inception in 1973, the group use only body- and hand-held percussion to accompany their vocalizations, if using any accompaniment at all. Formed in Washington, D.C. by Bernice Johnson Reagon, then vocal director of the D.C. Black Repertory Theater, the ensemble has changed membership over time, with over 20 women having contributed to a lineup usually numbering four to six. Sweet Honey in the Rock perform arrangements of popular and traditional works but compose much of their own music, which often focuses on women's issues and topics of social injustice, while also addressing family, community, and personal development-minded themes, including children's music. Their eponymous debut album was released in 1976 and was followed by 1978's B'lieve I'll Run On, 1981's Good News, 1983's We All…Every One of Us, 1985's The Other Side and Feel Something Drawing Me On, and the 1988 live album Breaths before they issued Live at Carnegie Hall later that year. The group also appeared on the Grammy-winning compilation Folkways: A Vision Shared - A Tribute to Woody Guthrie & Leadbelly in 1988 with their version of Lead Belly's "Grey Goose." "A celebration of the roots, history and future of African-American culture," All for Freedom arrived in 1989. They continued to perform live and release material throughout the '90s, which saw In This Land, Still on the Journey, I Got the Shoes, Sacred Ground, and the compilation Selections 1976-1988. The children's album Still the Same Me was released in 2000, as was their soundtrack with James Horner for the TV movie Freedom Song. In 2003, they issued The Women Gather and Alive in Australia, which was followed by another live album in 2004, Endings & Beginnings. They released Raise Your Voice in 2005 and Experience…101 in 2007, a collaboration with the Alvin Ailey Dance Theater titled Go in Grace in 2008, and Are We a Nation? in 2010. Tribute: Live! Jazz at Lincoln Center appeared in 2013, a year in which they also performed at Nelson Mandela's national memorial service in Washington, D.C.'s National Cathedral. Still going strong after over 40 years, their social networking-inspired #LoveInEvolution (including the single "IDK But I'm LOL") arrived in early 2016.
© Marcy Donelson /TiVo
Discografia
18 álbum(ns) • Ordenado por Mais vendidos
-
Live At Carnegie Hall (Live At Carnegie Hall, New York, NY / November 7, 1987)
Gospel - Lançado por Flying Fish em 30 de nov. de 1987
Qualidade de CD de 16 bits 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
Breaths
Gospel - Lançado por Rounder Records em 1 de jan. de 1987
Qualidade de CD de 16 bits 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
A Tribute - Live! Jazz at Lincoln Center
Jazz - Lançado por Appleseed em 26 de fev. de 2013
Qualidade de CD de 16 bits 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
Feel Something Drawing Me On
Folk - Lançado por Rounder Records em 30 de nov. de 1984
Qualidade de CD de 16 bits 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
Freedom Song - Television Soundtrack
Sweet Honey In The Rock, James Horner
Film Soundtracks - Lançado por Sony Classical em 2 de fev. de 2000
Qualidade de CD de 16 bits 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
#LoveInEvolution
Alternative & Indie - Lançado por Appleseed em 22 de jan. de 2016
Qualidade de CD de 16 bits 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
Still The Same Me
Children - Lançado por Rounder em 19 de set. de 2000
Qualidade de CD de 16 bits 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
25
Rock - Lançado por Ryko - Rhino em 28 de abr. de 2000
Qualidade de CD de 16 bits 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
Sweet Honey In The Rock
Gospel - Lançado por Flying Fish em 1 de jan. de 1976
Qualidade de CD de 16 bits 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
The Other Side
Gospel - Lançado por Flying Fish em 1 de jan. de 1985
Qualidade de CD de 16 bits 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
Experience 101
Gospel - Lançado por Appleseed em 25 de set. de 2007
Qualidade de CD de 16 bits 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
Retribution
Alternative & Indie - Lançado por SHE-ROCKS 5® ENTERTAINMENT em 16 de jun. de 2023
24-Bit 48.0 kHz - Stereo -
Are We A Nation? - Single
Miscellaneous - Lançado por SHE ROCKS 5 em 15 de jun. de 2010
Qualidade de CD de 16 bits 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
Silent Night
Humour/Spoken Word - Lançado por She Rocks 5, INC. em 3 de dez. de 2014
Qualidade de CD de 16 bits 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
The Living Waters
International Pop - Lançado por SHE-ROCKS 5® ENTERTAINMENT em 22 de abr. de 2024
24-Bit 96.0 kHz - Stereo -
Tune for June
International Pop - Lançado por SHE-ROCKS 5® ENTERTAINMENT em 17 de nov. de 2023
24-Bit 96.0 kHz - Stereo -
IDK, But I'm LOL!
Folk - Lançado por Appleseed em 20 de nov. de 2015
Qualidade de CD de 16 bits 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
Second Line Blues
Vocal Music (Secular and Sacred) - Lançado por Appleseed em 8 de jan. de 2016
Qualidade de CD de 16 bits 44.1 kHz - Stereo