Rec me music, part 2!

[oyceter]

I still haven't decided what music to get yet! I'm trying to listen to everything and pick what I like.

So... Does anyone have more recs for happy, bouncy music by women of color? I looked at my music library, and it is embarrassingly white.

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[vonnie-k.livejournal.com]

The Noisettes, What's the Time, Mr. Wolf?. The Noisettes are a new British band and the lead singer, Shingai Shoniwa, is of Zimbabwean descent. She's awesome: here is the video (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C91iV8gQb1U) for the lead-single, "Dont Give Up".

Cibo Matto, Viva La Woman. A Japanese duo whose all consuming passion, next to music, seems to be food. (All of the songs on the album is about one food item or another.) Their songs are more languid and slinky than energetic though. I like them a lot. You might be familiar with "Sugar Water", which was featured in an episode of "Buffy the Vampire Slayer".

I have sadly very little contemporary R&B stuff. Some Lauren Hill & Macy Gray -- I guess Macy Gray is bouncy. Depends on how much you like funk. I have tons of jazz with African-America female artists, but I suspect that might not be up your alley.

Then there is Nina Simone, who is the opposite of happy & bouncy but my, her stuff is good. ANGRY, but good.

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[seaya.livejournal.com]

I was going to recommend Cibo Matto, but I thought maybe that would be too cliched.

But I will add that their second album is much more bouncy.

[estara.livejournal.com]

ditto recommendation for African-American female jazz singers.

Here's Ella scatting and bouncing through One-Note Samba
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PbL9vr4Q2LU
Dinah Shore & Ella Fitzgerald - Incredibly bouncy Blues medley :D
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CLZxMZqqC6Y
Ella and Boy from Ipanema
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hc8nLN6IxiM
It Don't mean a Thing Fitzgerald Ella/Peterson 1958
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HeXaEN55mkU

Of course Ella also did lots of sad/torch songs, so you have to check around what the bouncy stuff is on her compilations. She did virtuall every standard songbook there is, too.

Ella Fitzgerald Sings "Misty", 1965
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oNDuH9IJhGA
Mary J. Blige ripped off her hairdo ^^

Bouncy and funky with
Chaka Khan - Tell me something good
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OV9FUKL24Uk
Chaka Khan - I Feel For You
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TNeVmIJRqjo
My personal disco freak out will always be Ain't Nobody!

Des'ree - Feel so High, breakout single
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DGtwUGa0rN4
Des'ree - You Gotta Be
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JhpZfltbnAQ