A Blues Legend – Barbara Morrison
Classic blues has revealed a specifically female awareness, especially about love; salacious love, unrequited love, abused love and cheating lovers. These became central aspects in many female repertoires, replacing the feelings of loneliness, isolation, and desperation, which permeated the blues.
Barbara Morrison is one of the most well known figures in the history of blues. She is a dynamic singer and her awareness of the classic blues has fueled her growth on the music scene. Morrison has an incredible stage presence and her passion fills her songs about love with her throbbing multi-octave voice. She has recorded with some of the finest jazz and blues musicians of her time and has traveled the world performing at festivals and remains a highly respected educator, businessperson, and humanitarian.
Attend one of her performances and you will find the females in her audience shouting in agreement with her lyrics, which are spontaneous, completely genuine, and never ordinary.
To increase awareness of the art form, Morrison teaches Ethnomusicology at UCLA where she has been a professor for over 13 years. She also hosts her own radio show in Los Angeles where she provides a voice for the blues idiom and promotes its growth and development by offering her services in education, touring, communication, and recording.
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