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Quincy Jones Talks The Color Purple, Tina Turner, & T-Pain (Video)

Tahirah Edwards Byfield November 18, 2010 Music Comments

Amanda Diva speaks with the legendary Quincy Jones on AOL BlackVoices‘ The Spark. Quincy Jones spoke about casting Oprah, Danny Glover and Whoopi Goldberg in The Color Purple (and not casting Tina Turner), creating his new album, Q: Soul Bossa Nostra (read our review here), T. Pain and his view on the internet’s impact on music.

Amanda also asks, “what’s up with the sistas?” alluding to the perception that he prefers to date non-black women – and gets a hilarious response.

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Being born to a father who used to own an independent reggae label and a mother who sang meant a love for melodies, chords, vocals and beats was naturally infused in Tahirah Edwards Byfield. Unfortunately that love for music wasn’t accompanied by any type of musical ability! So the young creative married her love of tuneage with her other favourite form of expression, literature. Combined with the other thing she’s pretty good at – talking too much – Tahirah enjoys waxing lyrical about music and street culture on paper and on radio.

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