Stacey Chanelle Claire Solomon (born 4 October 1989) is an English singer and media personality. In 2009, she finished in third place on the sixth series of The X Factor, and gained a number one single on the UK Singles Chart when her fellow The X Factor finalists released a cover of "You Are Not Alone". Solomon won the tenth series of I'm a Celebrity...
Get Me Out of Here!. Her debut single, a cover of "Driving Home for Christmas", was released on 19 December 2011. Solomon then released her debut album Shy on 18 April 2015. In September 2016, she began appearing as a panellist on Loose Women and in November of the same year she presented the I'm a Celebrity spin-off series I'm a Celebrity: Extra Camp.
Sounds of the Movement
thegavoice.comBlack Luv N Rage creates revolutionary space for Black queer artists In his book “My Bondage and My Freedom,” Frederick Douglass said, “To an ignorant observer, spirituals appeared to be simple hymns, retelling biblical stories and themes.
But the songs held deeper meaning for the people who sang them, acting as coded messages that passed along information about how one might escape and serving as much-needed reminders that freedom was possible.” As long as Black people have been in America, music has been important to us.
Music has always been more than a way to pass time, or a way to entertain. It has been a tool to gather our people, to conjure strength, to make a statement and express the passion we have for our people and the world around us and the grief of struggle when those things are put in jeopardy.
The bonding of music and strife has been consistent through all generations as the fight for justice has taken different forms, but we continue to pick up where those before us left off.
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