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Curtis Mayfield

guitarist, singer, singer-songwriter, pianist, songwriter, composer, record producer, saxophonist

1942 – 1999

Curtis Lee Mayfield was an American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and record producer. Dubbed the Gentle Genius, he is considered one of the most influential musicians of soul and socially conscious African-American music. Mayfield first achieved success and recognition with the vocal group the Impressions during the civil rights movement of the late 1950s and the 1960s, and later worked as a solo artist.

All Quotes by Curtis Mayfield

Our purpose is to educate as well as to entertain. Painless preaching is as good a term as any for what we do. If you're going to come away from a party singing the lyrics of a song, it is better that you sing of self-pride like 'We're a Winner' instead of 'Do the Boo-ga-loo!'

Curtis Mayfield

Being a young black man, observing and sensing the need for race equality and women's rights, I wrote about what was important to me.

Curtis Mayfield