Musicians' Corner remembers Mahalia Jackson

Mahalia Jackson, October 26, 1911 – January 27, 1972

Mahalia Jackson in Senegal

A talk with MFA Kera

Sadiq Bey's interview with MFA Kera part 1

Black Heritage at Free Blues Club

Sadiq Bey's interview with MFA Kera part 2

MFA Kera and Mike Russell's Black Heritage Nelson Mandela tribute

Black Heritage afro soul retrospective

MFA Kera is a singer, composer, writer and painter, who spent her childhood years in Madagascar and Senegal. After a move to Paris she began her music career, inspired not in the least by Mahalia Jackson. Working with many greats along the way, such as John Lee Hooker, Memphis Slim, Mickey Baker and Milt Buckner, and after spending a few years in Los Angeles, Kera is now based in Berlin, where she continues to fuse ethnic African music with a myriad of musical elements, while working with her Black Heritage Orchestra.

Find out more HERE.

The supervising editor at Musicians' Corner's pick: MFA Kera europe remix 3 by Sadiq Bey >green_man/