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Love you NYC!! We did it!!! 💥🙏🏼💥 ❤️❤️ I’m crying!!

Regram @krolewsk 🙏🏼🙏🏼#bidenharris2020 #nyc #nycrocks #wedidit #letsgo #newbeginnings

Voted! Early voting in NYC is phenomenal. Arrived

Voted! Early voting in NYC is phenomenal. Arrived 45 mins before polls opened & lines already blocks long, yet everyone patient & respectful. A special line for elders, free ‘pizza to the polls’, fantastic and generous! Inside was organized and smooth. Very proud of my city and fellow New Yorkers, the 3 hours I waited flew by.

I hope you’ll join me in thanking our poll workers, volunteering their time so that we can vote! 🙏🏼🙏🏼❤️🙏🏼🙏🏼 Thank YOU!!

#earlyvoting #nyc #nycvotes #vote #thankyou #voteearly

Happy Birthday Valerie Simpson! We love you more t

Happy Birthday Valerie Simpson! We love you more than words can say!! ❤️ You ARE every woman! Wishing you a beautiful day filled with love! ❤️🛥🎂🎶🍾 #valeriesimpson #ashfordandsimpson #happybirthday #musicians #songwriter #legend #surroundedbylove #tinkrbarfield #valerieghent #petecannarozzi #tonystevenson @valeriesashford @sugarbarnyc

Ahhh at the ocean..... waiting for my new transatl

Ahhh at the ocean..... waiting for my new transatlantic single to arrive this Friday! 🌊🎶 Can you guess with who?

#newmusiccoming #newsingle #surpriseduo #valerieghent #ocean #grateful #inspiration #soundofthesea #muse #musicislife

Beautiful sunset in NYC tonight! can you see the c

Beautiful sunset in NYC tonight! can you see the crescent moon? Glorious! #sunset #nyc #nycsunset #mothernature #sunsetcolors #hudsonriver #moonatsunset #grateful

Well alright now!! Awesome review & video premiere

Well alright now!! Awesome review & video premiere for GET FUNKAY Live in Lockdown!! 🤩 Thanks CelebMix!!! 🙏❤️🙏

"Electrifying funk riding an infectious rhythm"!!! Yessss that's Jerome "blistering" Buigues, François "brawny" Gomez & Fred "finessed" Alfonsi! Love you guys!!!

⭐️link in bio⭐️

#getfunkay #celebmix #newvideo #livemusic #lockdownmusic #musicislife #singer #musician #dowhatyoulove @thecelebmix

Life in NYC...New mask by my friend Carolee Goodgo

Life in NYC...New mask by my friend Carolee Goodgold!! Smiling underneath 😍 Thank you Carolee for making these beautiful masks for all of us! 🙏🏼❤️ 😷 stay healthy everyone ! #mask #wearmasks #nyc #lifeinNYC #keepsmiling #stayhealthy #staypositive #wearamask #wearyourmask @caroleenyc

A great light has gone out in Paris. My beloved, r

A great light has gone out in Paris. My beloved, remarkable cousin, Dimitri Vicheney has passed away at age 96. I am heartbroken. We spoke last week on the phone & he sang a blues melody, promising next time we spoke I would play piano and he would sing. As memories flood I weep, and at the same time feel immense joy & gratitude for the gift of his presence on earth and in my life. Here we are together when I went to Paris to see him, he came to our concert full of life & joy!

For me Dimitri is, was, a miracle, a living breathing connection to my long-lost family in France, a brilliant, elegant & refined gentleman who remembered my grandmother & my great uncle when everyone else was gone, a passionate musicologist & historian of American blues music. Until 2010 I didn’t even know he existed! Yet once we met, my heart exploded. I had the inexplicable feeling something larger than both of us had brought us together so many years after our families were separated.

Dimitri is the reason I traveled to Paris so often in recent years, to spend time with this miraculous person, literally a walking encyclopedia both of the blues and of our family history. Name any blues song & he would tell you who wrote and recorded it, who was in the band & in what year. Kindred spirits in music, Dimitri introduced me to blues singers and gave me dozens of CDs, pointing me towards women pianist/singers/songwriters he thought would fit my voice. Always asking me when was I going to make a blues album? I took notes as he spoke, trying to keep up with his vast knowledge that spilled out of him so naturally. He couldn’t believe his lifelong love of blues & gospel echoed my own path in music, and each time we were together he mentioned what a remarkable turn of events that we would meet in this lifetime, asking how was it possible we hadn't met sooner?

Dimitri will live on in my heart & in my music for the rest of my life. I love him too much to say goodbye, instead will say au revoir Dimitri, until we see one another again & you can sing while I play the piano. Je t’aime. Toujours. Full tribute: valghent.com #dimitryvicheney #jacquesdemetre #blueshistory #family #life

“Say Their Names” - next week’s New Yorker c

“Say Their Names” - next week’s New Yorker cover by @kadirnelson #blacklivesmatter #saytheirnames #talkingaboutrace #blm #powerful #georgefloyd #justiceforgeorgefloyd @newyorkermag

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