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Hair and Soul

from Brown Girls Dream by LaVon Hardison

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In 2021, Town Hall Seattle hosted poet Rita Dove and I was asked to to write a song based on her collection of poems “Playlist for the Apocalypse.” There was a short poem about hair that sparked this song. It celebrates getting your hair “did.” It celebrates how our hair can be our crown.

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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
My walking struttin' being
It's me stepping out magnifique

Short and sassy shake and go
Heat resistant cornrow
microkink Kanakalon
Brazillian 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
Its the lift when I be lowin'
It's the gasp when I walk into the room
All the secrets, all the prayin', all unsaid things I'm sayin'
Its the mighty mic drop that goes boom

Chorus

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

Chorus /Fade

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from Brown Girls Dream, released March 15, 2023

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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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