{"id":1808,"date":"2022-08-19T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-08-19T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sofarsoundsblo.wpengine.com\/blog\/articles\/on-repeat-upbeat-groove-playlist-michelle-nelson\/"},"modified":"2022-10-08T15:32:09","modified_gmt":"2022-10-08T15:32:09","slug":"on-repeat-upbeat-groove-playlist-michelle-nelson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sofarsounds.com\/blog\/articles\/on-repeat-upbeat-groove-playlist-michelle-nelson","title":{"rendered":"On Repeat: Hear the Upbeat Groove Playlist curated by Michelle Antoinette Nelson"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/lovethepoet\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Michelle Antoinette Nelson<\/a> is a storyteller. She is a recording artist and author. She is a spoken word poet and event producer who curated an open mic showcase in Baltimore for 15 years. She is a<a href=\"http:\/\/instagram.com\/brownandhealthy\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> health guru<\/a> who has been featured in <em>Forbes<\/em> Magazine. In fact, <em>she wears so many hats<\/em> that she recently started a<a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/gcecilhats\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> company<\/a> where she designs new and upcycled hats. Her story contains such a multitude of experiences and this carefully crafted playlist reflects that journey.<\/p>\n<p>Listen to the full <a href=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/playlist\/7cLPtbVYwTqJHc7Yke5YUA?si=71abe525d98f47ee\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Upbeat Grooves Playlist<\/a> and check out what Michelle had to say about some of her favorite tracks below.<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Jazmine Sullivan | &#8220;Bodies&#8221;<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p><em>I started with a question: Who am I? I\u2019m an artist. I am a woman. I am Black. I am gay. I\u2019m now in my 40s. I am all of these things and I want to show what that looks like. The first song that came to mind is Jazmine Sullivan\u2019s \u201cBodies\u201d because I love the narrative. It says get yourself together but also this is who I am and you can\u2019t kill my vibe.<\/em><\/p>\n<h2><strong>Fatoumata Diawara &amp; Ms. Lauryn Hill | &#8220;Black Woman&#8221;<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p><em>I\u2019m just being very blatant about who I am. It also features Ms. Lauryn Hill. It speaks. It\u2019s so promising to me. I was a teenager when \u2018The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill\u2019 came out and Erykah Badu\u2019s \u201cBadusim\u201d came out and, lyrically-speaking, those two raised me.<\/em><\/p>\n<h2><strong>Erykah Badu | &#8220;Appletree&#8221;<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p><em>\u201cAppletree\u201d set the stage for all who I am. It helped me realize that my role cannot be at the whim of someone\u2019s ego.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Words by Steven Rutherford<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"border-radius: 12px;\" src=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/embed\/playlist\/7cLPtbVYwTqJHc7Yke5YUA?si=e001f43e382943b2?utm_source=generator\" width=\"100%\" height=\"380\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Michelle Antoinette Nelson is a storyteller. She is a recording artist and author. She is a spoken word poet and event producer who curated an open mic showcase in Baltimore for 15 years. She is a health guru who has been featured in Forbes Magazine. In fact, she wears so many hats that she recently [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1809,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1808","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-community"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sofarsounds.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1808","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sofarsounds.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sofarsounds.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sofarsounds.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sofarsounds.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1808"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.sofarsounds.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1808\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sofarsounds.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1809"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sofarsounds.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1808"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sofarsounds.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1808"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sofarsounds.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1808"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}