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Send us Fan Mail Episode 72. Host Troy Saunders interviews the GRAMMY-nominated producers and songwriters, plus amazing singers, Helen Bruner and Terry Jones. They have been in the business for over 30 years, entering the world singing as part of large talented musical families. They share with Troy the story of how they met and became lifelong sisters and collaborators, beginning with their first...

Send us Fan Mail Episode 71. Host Troy Saunders interviews one of the baddest singer/songwriters out there today, Rebecca Jade. If you do not have her latest album, “A Shade of Jade,” in your playlist, you better go get it. It’s insane from beginning to end. This also happens to be the first record where Rebecca wrote all of the lyrics. Rebecca talks about growing up in a musical home, and being e...

Send us Fan Mail Episode 70. This is one of those shows, y’all. It’s off the hook, informative, and enlightening. In this episode, host Troy Saunders interviews multi-genre artist RAHBI, R-A-H-B-I, all capital letters, no small letters here! Did you know that Rahbi is his real name? Listen and learn its powerful meaning.  His musical mission is to always lead people to love, which began at his gra...

Send us Fan Mail Episode 69. Host Troy Saunders interviews his fellow Erasmus Hall High School alum, Hubert Eaves IV. Hubert is a multi-talented instrumentalist, composer, and producer, perhaps best known for his infectious pocket bass playing on Erykah Badu’s live album. He’s also recorded and worked with artists ranging from Will Downing, Alex Bugnon, Freddie Jackson, The O’Jays, Seal, Harold Me...

Send us Fan Mail Episode 68. Host Troy Saunders interviews singer, songwriter, composer, comedian and playwright Kelli Sae. Kelli Sae has released three solo albums independently on her own Kwurk Arts Group Entertainment label. She has toured the world as lead vocalist for Global Jazz Funk Collectives Count Basic and Incognito. Her voice has perhaps been most widely heard as principal vocalist for...

Send us Fan Mail Episode 63. Six Degrees of Patti LaBelle. The Queen. The Legendary Godmother of Soul. Hosted by Troy Saunders, Wanda T., and Arif St. Michael. The first episode of this series dedicated to Patti LaBelle features music and stories from Patti LaBelle’s solo years, 1977-1990. We play and discuss legendary classics, deep cuts, and live versions of her amazing hits. The podcast is mean...

Send us Fan Mail Episode 64. Six Degrees of Patti LaBelle. The Queen. The Legendary Godmother of Soul. Hosted by Troy Saunders, Wanda T., and Arif St. Michael. John Stanley worked with Patti LaBelle for over 29 years, going from a background singer to her trusted friend and musical director. He has performed around the world with Patti including the LaBelle Reunion Concert at The Apollo, and at th...

Send us Fan Mail Episode 65. Six Degrees of Patti LaBelle. The Queen. The Legendary Godmother of Soul. Hosted by Troy Saunders, Wanda T., and Arif St. Michael. In this part of our series on the music and career of the legendary Patti LaBelle, we focus on Patti’s early years with The Bluebells and LaBelle. Our special guest is singer and songwriter Keith Anthony Fluitt, who has performed with Patti...

Send us Fan Mail Episode 66. Six Degrees of Patti LaBelle. The Queen. The Legendary Godmother of Soul. Hosted by Troy Saunders, Wanda T., and Arif St. Michael. This episode in our series on the career and music of the legendary Patti LaBelle will focus on  the life of the great Sarah Dash. Special guest is B.J. Nelson. She was known as “The Voice” before Whitney Houston was “The Voice”. B.J. Nelso...

Send us Fan Mail Episode 67. Six Degrees of Patti LaBelle. The Queen. The Legendary Godmother of Soul. Hosted by Troy Saunders, Wanda T., and Arif St. Michael. Our series on the career and music of the legendary Patti LaBelle wraps up by featuring LaBelle’s secret weapon, the great Nona Hendryx. In addition to being an amazing performer, she was the prolific songwriter for many of LaBelle’s bigges...

Send us Fan Mail Episode 62. Troy Saunders, Wanda T, and Arif St. Michael sit down with the one and only I. Khan. She is the daughter of the legendary diva Chaka Khan and a good friend of everyone on the show. Join us as we laugh, reminisce and touch on her incredible music catalog past and present! Indira Milini Khan was born in Chicago and grew up in Los Angeles and New York City. The sultry you...

Send us Fan Mail Episode 57. Six Degrees of Luther Vandross - Rare Tunes and Collaborations. Listen and subscribe to the BAAS Entertainment Podcast via the BAAS Entertainment website, www.baasentertainment.com, and all podcast platforms. 

Send us Fan Mail Episode 58. Six Degrees of Luther Vandross - Luther's Unmistakable Background Arrangements with Special Commentary By Legendary Vocalist Cindy Mizelle. Listen and subscribe to the BAAS Entertainment Podcast via the BAAS Entertainment website, www.baasentertainment.com, and all podcast platforms. 

Send us Fan Mail Episode 59. Hailing from Chicago, Paulette McWilliams became the lead singer with Ask Rufus and was solely responsible for introducing the group to her dearest friend, Chaka Khan. Paulette and Chaka shared the lead in Ask Rufus for some time before Paulette left the band. "I was so upset about leaving my daughter to tour with Rufus for long periods. I decided that the jingles...

Send us Fan Mail Episode 60. Bing. Frank. Billie. Robeson. Aretha. Diana. Dionne. Whitney. Mariah. Michael. Marvin. Luther. It is rarified company, but indelibly classic and everlasting in the annals of American music and a club Luther Vandross' membership is permanent. Coupled with that voice, was Luther’s unique ability to write and sing about love and the shared emotions we all feel in tha...

Send us Fan Mail Episode 61. From Dionne Warwick to Aretha to Diana to Patti LaBelle, Luther was influenced by some of the greats in popular music. No wonder he become one of the most success singers of our time. Tune in as we scratch the surface of the many artists that proceeded Luther in greatness and helped him form a style that was undeniably his own! Listen and subscribe to the BAAS Entertai...

Send us Fan Mail Episode 56. Ivan Hampden Jr., Founder and President/CEO of Hamptown Music Institute, was born and raised in New York City, and grew up in Harlem’s musically diverse neighborhoods to the rhythms of R&B, Salsa, Caribbean, Jazz, Blues, Pop, Funk and whatever else trickled in. This saturation of music inspired Hampden to start playing the drums at the age of eight, with the local...

Send us Fan Mail Episode 55. Brooklyn-based singer/songwriter TERRON AUSTIN is one of those artists the world has truly been waiting for. As a native of Cincinnati, Ohio, TERRON honed his vocal performance skills singing in local churches, talent shows, major gospel concerts & theater troupes. Early on, TERRON developed a passion for songwriting, vocal arranging & production in area record...

Send us Fan Mail Episode 54. When I was signed to Motown I really didn’t get the type of experience that I wanted. Motown was one of the greatest labels in our history, and to a lot of its artists and fans. The music had a lot to say and when you listen to it today it places you in a time and place of remembering. I grew up with my parents listening to music, so when I discovered I could sing as a...

Send us Fan Mail Detroit native, J.Brown, has cultivated a unique sound that continues to shock the world! Brown began his musical career at the age of eight years old with the help of his mother. She encouraged him to join the church choir and after years of singing, Brown's passion grew. His outstanding vocal talents stood out from the rest to where he was offered to regularly perform at th...

Send us Fan Mail SIX DEGREES OF… Season 1 Episode 6. This episode concentrates on Chaka Khan’s incredibly musical family!! Taka Boom, Mark Stevens aka Noochi Norton; Chaka’s Siblings and her daughter Indira Milini Khan!!! This 2 hours and 25 minutes podcast will take you on a trip through each family members musical journey from groups they have been in, songs they have written, solo ventures, col...

Send us Fan Mail For this episode I decided to add to the discussion three fellow Khannoisseurs, who are just as passionate and knowledgeable on our subject matter, the one and only CHAKA KHAN; as Wanda, Arif and I. Our special guests are the multi-talented Wallace Gary; singer, educator and and all around music aficionado, MonRay Francois; and the man of so many talents he needs his own podcast,...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode we will be covering some of Chaka Khan's best, B sides, Collaborations and Other Rare Tunes.  From Patti Austin to The Average White Band to Stevie Winwood; I believe Chaka has contributed her vocal expertise to more artists’s music, in more genres than any other artist in the past 50 years. After this podcast episode you too will see why I say this.  Of cours...

Send us Fan Mail Episode 47. The first episode of Six Degrees of... featuring CHAKA KHAN! Troy and co-host Wanda T. will be focusing on the artists who influenced Chaka's creativity, from Aretha Franklin to Stevie Wonder and everyone in between. To help start the inaugural season of Six Degrees of... we have invited our friend and vocalist extraordinaire Arif St. MIchael. Arif has traveled th...

Send us Fan Mail Episode 48. This episode covers Chaka Khan's unique, versatile and powerful vocal style that has kept her in the game for almost 50 years! Joining in on the conversation is the incredible Karen Bernod! For those of you that don't know, Karen has been in the game for over 30 years! From her vocals on the house classic "Motherland," to singing backgrounds for Pau...