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Hair and Soul

by LaVon Hardison

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I wrote this song for a Seattle Arts and Lectures event featuring Rita Dove, a Pulitzer Prize winner and former US Poet Laureate. The song is inspired by Dove's poem "Found Sonnet: The Wig" found in her latest book Playlist for the Apocalypse

Check out the video at youtu.be/vcQBxlyNXD4

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My hair is my movement, my instantaneous groovement
My self-realization and my mighty creation
It's my sight and my seeing
It's my walkin, struttin being
It's me stepping out -Magnifique!

Chorus:
Short and sassy
Shake and Go
Heat resistant, cornrow
Micro kink
Kanakelon
Brazilian Blend
Extra Long
Swiss lace front
A loose cascade
Trendy, Classic
'Scuse my shades
Nubian locs and Ghana braids

My hair is where I'm going
It's the lift when I be lowin'
It's the gasp as I walk into the room
All the secret, all the prayin'
Al the unsaid things I'm sayin'
It's the mighty mic drop that goes boom

Chorus

Bridge

My beauty is deep inside
So deep it'll take you on a ride
Who you'll meet, I cannot say
But I warn you I can show you
Who I am today.

Chorus

credits

released January 6, 2022
Words and music: LaVon Hardison

LaVon Hardison: vocals, programming
Osama Afifi: bass
Tim Kennedy: keyboard/mix
Brad Gibson: Drums

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LaVon Hardison Olympia, Washington

LaVon Hardison, “an artist for whom the song is king” (Earshot Jazz), has a glossy, warm tone and infectious stage presence. Trained in jazz and classical vocal technique, LaVon has a developed a musical persona as a jazz singer with a rock-and-roll sensibility. Beneath the core jazz sound of her original songs and covers bubbles a gumbo of soul, rock, country, gospel, pop, and even punk. ... more

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