Birgitta

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Gender Female
Industry Arts
Occupation Ethnomusicologist/Musician/Culture Observer
Location Columbia, SC/Atlanta, GA, The South, United States
Introduction I am 100% invested in dually keeping it real and keeping it right.
Interests Music, music, music, people, music...living off the wall
Favorite Movies Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome, The Color Purple, Coming to America, Joy Luck Club, Commando, Harlem Knights, The Women of Brewster Place, Boomerang, Saw, Fantasia, The Sound of Music, Fame, Willie Wonka (both versions), The Last Dragon, A Piece of the Action, Uptown Saturday Night, Claudine, Willie Dynamite, Jackie Brown, Kill Bill Vol. 1 & 2, Fatal Beauty, Jumping Jack Flash, The Heroic Trio, Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon, Curse of the Golden Flower, House of Flying Daggers, any Jet Li, Quentin Tarintino, or Tyler Perry project
Favorite Music Stevie Wonder, Donnie Hathaway, James Cleveland, Ella Fitzgerald, Richard Smallwood, Marvin Sapp, Sarah Vaughn, Nina Simone, Eartha Kitt, Bach, Chopin, Beethoven, Debussy, Ravel, Fred Hammond, James Brown, Larry Graham, Marvin Gaye, George Clinton, Off the Wall & Thriller, George Benson, The Dude, Patty Austin, Musiq, Jill Scott, J Dilla, 9th Wonder, Fats Waller, Pete Johnson, Oscar Peterson, Cassandra Wilson, Tito Puente, Mongo Santamaria, Seal, Sade, Vikter Duplaix, Donnie, India.Aire, Georgia Anne Muldrow, J*Davey, Janelle Monae, Joe Williams, Mahalia Jackson, Duke Ellington, Sister Rossetta Tharpe, Stone Temple Pilots, Dave Mathews Band, Dorothy Love Coates & the Original Gospel Harmonettes, The Caravans, Donald Lawrence, Doobie Brothers, Michael McDonald, Pattie Labelle, Fantasia, Aerosmith, Annie Lenox, Tina Marie, Prince, 80s, Ndambi, Dwelle, Bilal, Incognito, Raul Midon, Jamiroquai, Mos Def, Guru, Bohamadia, Medusa, Queen, EnVogue, Mint Condition, Albita, Francisco Aguabella, Cachao, Angelique Kidjo, Syleena Johnson, Michael Montano, Lady Saw, Square One, Chucho Valdez, Suphala, Thomas Mapfumo, Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan, Oumou Sangare, pansori, soca, dancehall, soul, funk, progressive house, salsa, cha cha, mambo, samba, rumba, down tempo, baroque, early blues-based metal, classic jazz, straight ahead, 70s dance music, boogie-woogie, gospel, did I miss anyone
Favorite Books Michael Crichton, Zora Neale Hurston, Terry McMillan, Toni Morrison, Octavia Butler, Bebe Moore Campbell, James Baldwin, The Bible

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