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Skyy
Skyy
Recording Group

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Skyy (a.k.a. New York Skyy) was an American R&B/funk/disco band based in New York. They are perhaps best known for their 1981 hit, "Call Me", as well as their 1989 "comeback" hits, "Start of a Romance" and "Real Love".

Tags: Capitol Records · Atlantic Records · Salsoul Records · Call Me · Start of a Romance · Real Love · Billboard Hot 100 · Brooklyn, New York · R&B · Funk

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Dan Stokes
Member, Solo

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Solo is a R&B musical group. The original members were Robert Anderson, Darnell Chavis, Eunique Mack, and Dan Stokes. The group recorded their gold-selling debut album in Minneapolis and released it in 1995, with production by Jimmy Jam & Terry Lewis.

Tags: Jimmy Jam & Terry Lewis · Solo · R&B · Singer · Interior Designer · Podcaster · Hunter College · Adjunct Professor · Brooklyn, New York · Certified Rehabilitation Counselor

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Michael Alig: Death Has Always Really Frightened Me — Photo Credit: Shefik

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November 3, 2017 Death

Michael Alig is an artist and party promoter, who served almost 17 years in prison for manslaughter. He was a co-founder and ringleader of the Club Kids, a group of New York City clubgoers that became a cultural phenomenon during the 1980s and 1990s.

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Adam B. Shapiro: Sometimes It's a Long Time Before the Phone Rings — Photo Credit: Shefik

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August 16, 2016 Perseverance

Adam B. Shapiro is an award-winning actor, known for HBO's "The Normal Heart" (2014), "Master of None" (2015), and "The Cobbler" (2014). He has also performed in two national tours, one international tour, and two off-Broadway shows.

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Chuck McDermott: The Role That Fear Can Play in Our Lives — Photo Credit: Shefik

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November 25, 2018 Fear

Over the last 40 years, Chuck McDermott has left his musical mark on audiences on both coasts of the United States. Over the last few decades, he has devoted himself to energy and environmental policy issues, and working in government.

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September 17, 2016 Faith

Gerald Alston is an American R&B singer, and the lead singer with The Manhattans. Between 1988 and 1995, he left the group to record five albums (later recording his tribute to Sam Cooke in 2008) and ten solo singles.

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M.C. El Bee: The Knowledge of Hip-Hop Needs to Be Restored — Photo Credit: Shefik

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December 27, 2017 Knowledge

Author Larry Boatright, also known as M.C. El Bee in the hip-hop community, talks about the birth and propagation of hip-hop in the 1970s and 1980s in his biography "A Gangsta'z Tale Hip-Hop in Da '70s: Invisible Legends of Hip-Hop".

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