Name a rock star

[T3XT]

That is black, and not Jimi Hendrix.

I dare you.

Go.

[All-American-Badass]

Lajon Witherspoon. lead singer of Sevendust
Lenny Kravitz

[Nor]

Prince

[LDAF]

That newerish fella for AIC.

[IdiLogicSavant]

William DuVall.

[Klik]

Yeezy, Phil Lynott, Malcolm Mooney, and for god sakes you shithead nearly anyone before elvis.

[BumFodder]

pink floyd

[Viper50]

Tosin Abasi
Bootsy Collins
The entire band Living Colour
George Clinton
Sly Stone
Phil Lynott

[Tobi]

sly stone

[EJR]

I would like to say Lil Wayne if he even counts.

I hope he counts.

[Tobi]

At 2/15/13 09:46 PM, Viper50 wrote: Sly Stone

fuck

[T3XT]

At 2/15/13 09:46 PM, Viper50 wrote: Bootsy Collins
George Clinton

Funk, not rock

The entire band Living Colour

Hah, my thoughts exactly.

"Cult of Personality" rules.

[Viper50]

At 2/15/13 09:53 PM, T3XT wrote: Funk, not rock

Fair enough.
Though Bootsy IS a pretty awesome bass player.
I mean just listen to this.

Hah, my thoughts exactly.

"Cult of Personality" rules.

Indeed haha

[Jester]

Blacks can't style their hair flamboyantly to be rock stars.

[All-American-Badass]

At 2/15/13 10:03 PM, Jester wrote: Blacks can't style their hair flamboyantly to be rock stars.

Not so fast my friend

[Eddmario]

The members of Earth, Wind, and Fire

[HighWay]

the lead singer for Thin Lizzy is black.

[MiloBased]

me.

legal text

[J-Rex]

Lenny Kravitz, Prince, Phil Lynott, Everyone in Living Colour, Chuck Berry, and Little Richard.

[Sense-Offender]

Doug Pinnick

[Shade]

Little Richard.

[LemonCrush]

At 2/15/13 09:53 PM, T3XT wrote: Funk, not rock

Funkadelic was more rock than Hendrix was. Listen to "Super Stupid"

Anyway, my favorite, Prince, is black :)

[ChimeraNoise]

Victor Wooten

[LemonCrush]

At 2/15/13 11:03 PM, Eddmario wrote: The members of Earth, Wind, and Fire

Best. Band. Ever.

Live version of "Reasons". Everyone cums.

[Provoke]

Living Colour

Beat me to it.

[Viper50]

At 2/15/13 11:32 PM, LemonCrush wrote:

At 2/15/13 11:03 PM, Eddmario wrote: The members of Earth, Wind, and Fire

Best. Band. Ever.

Indeed!

[Cyberdevil]

At 2/15/13 09:31 PM, T3XT wrote: Go.

Lenny Kravitz, Phil Lynott, Chuck Berry, Living Colour, Sevendust, Straight Line Stitch, Suffocation, God Forbid...

For those of those that are bands, the lead singers are black.

[Stereocrisis]

Rock 'n' Roll has its roots in traditionally "black" and "white" music. It has roots in the blues and in country music. So, it had appeal early on and had any number of black and white performers. Chuck Berry, Little Richard, Bo Diddley, on one side, Elvis Presley, Buddy Holly, Jerry Lee Lewis on the other side. That's just a partial list of the early rock 'n' rollers, obviously. Certainly because of the racism of the time, black performers were less able to be successful than white performers, unfortunately. I think its probably fair to say that Chuck Berry contributed more to the sound of rock 'n' roll than Elvis Presley, but Presley was more marketable at the time so he gets much of the recognition, not to take anything away from Elvis, however. But I do think that within the early scene itself, there was a lot of mutual respect between all these artists and all these influences. There was just a lot of creativity going around.

[FistofGreedo]

Here's a black rock star.

[Stereocrisis]

In fact the term rock and roll was black slang, so one might say that black people came up with the term!

The phrase "rocking and rolling" originally described the movement of a ship on the ocean, but was used by the early twentieth century, both to describe the spiritual fervor of black church rituals and as a sexual analogy. Various gospel, blues and swing recordings used the phrase before it became used more frequently - but still intermittently - in the 1940s, on recordings and in reviews of what became known as "rhythm and blues" music aimed at a black audience.