Hey Everybody! I’m back…with a new oldschool mixtape to get your BBQ season started off right! I hope you enjoy this groove music…and don’t burn those ribs while you trying to dance!

Track Listing

1. Before I Let Go –Maze  ft.  Frankie Beverly
2. Disco Lady – Johnnie Taylor
3. Sir Duke – Stevie Wonder
4. Jamaica Funk – Rufus ft. Chaka Khan
5. Blame It On The Boogie – Jackson 5
6. She’s A Bad Mama Jama – Carl Carlton
7. Over Like A Fat Rat – Fonda Rae
8. It’s Your Thing – The Isley Brothers
9. Mr. Big Stuff – Jean Knight
10. Misdemeanor –  Foster Sylvers
11. Yes We Can Can – Pointer Sisters
12. Big Payback – James Brown
13. Fly, Robin Fly - Silver Convention
14. Cutie Pie – One Way
15. Flashlight – Parliament
16. I Found Loving –Fatback Band
17. Pick Up The Pieces – Average White Band
18. Back In Love Again – LTD
19. Funky Drummer – James Brown
20. Rock Creek Park – The Blackbyrds
21. I Love Music – The O’Jays
22. PYT (Pretty Young Thing) – Michael Jackson
23. Let’s Groove Tonight – Earth, Wind & Fire
24. One Nation Under A Groove –  Funkadelic

1. Love Hangover – Diana Ross
2. It’s My House – Diana Ross
3. Love To Love You Baby – Donna Summer
4. I Feel Love – Donna Summer
5. The Boss – Diana Ross
6. Heaven Knows – Donna Summer
7. McArthur’s Park – Donna Summer
8. I’m Coming Out – Diana Ross
9. On the Radio – Donna Summer
10. Dim All the Lights – Donna Summer
11. Upside Down – Diana Ross
12. Bad Girls – Donna Summer
13. Hot Stuff – Donna Summer
14. Last Dance – Donna Summer
15. Remember Me – Diana Ross
16. Touch Me in the Morning – Diana Ross
17. Good Morning Heartache – Diana Ross
18. Theme From Mahogany (Do You Know Where You Going To)- Diana Ross
19. Aint No Mountain High Enough – Diana Ross & the Supremes

Yup…you had to wait for this one too! I have been very busy at my job…which is managing a big academic office in a well known Graduate University. It’s the end of the year so I have all sorts of conferences coming up and parties to organize. I will end up taking a few weeks off from the Mixtress because of the job, plus I’m learning so much at the Scratch Academy I wanna start practicing at home more. With the new turntables and loads of records that I have to catalog…I will be quite busy!

So I’m gonna leave you with some funk to tide you over til I get back. I also have a surprise!

Here is the link to the cut up version of the mix (yeah I got tired of the whining DIVALICIOUS!!)

http://www.divshare.com/download/7142542-a0d

If you need assistance in burning that to a cd just ask… It took a lot of time to do it so when I get back from vacation.. I’ll be selling the cut up versions! Here’s the Funk!

Track Listing

1. You And I - Rick James
2. Holding On (When Love Is Gone) - LTD Featuring Jeffrey Osborne
3. Do You Want To Funk - Sylvester
4. Funkytown - Lipps Inc
5. Candy Man - Mary Jane Girls
6. Jamaica Funk - Rufus ft. Chaka Khan
7. Do You Love What You Feel - Rufus ft. Chaka Khan
8. Lets Groove Tonight - Earth Wind and Fire
9.  Early In The Morning - The Gap Band
10. Flashlight - George Clinton & Parliament Funkadelic
11. Love Rollercoaster - Ohio Players
12. (Not Just) Knee Deep - George Clinton & Parliment Funkadelic
13. Square Biz - Teena Marie
14. Pick Up the Pieces - Average White Band
15. Back In Love (Every Time I Turn Around)- LTD Featuring Jeffrey Osborne
16. Dazz Dazz (Disco Jazz) - Dazz Band
17. Get Down On It - Kool & The Gang
18. What Cha Gonna Do For Me- Rufus ft. Chaka Khan
19. Cutie Pie - One Way
20. Don't Stop The Music - SOS Band
21. All Night Long - Mary Jane Girls
22. Make it Funky - James Brown
23. Do It Till Your Satisfied - BT Express
24. Make My Funk The P-Funk - George Clinton & Parliment Funkadelic

This week I decided to do a little Diva/Band Mixtape. I mixed up with some funk and some disco. Found time to include a little rap which of course started in the 70′s. If you don’t know all the lyrics to Rapper’s Delight…you are not a black music fan!In that section Todd Kelly dropped through.  Mr. Fresh made sure to get in a request for “Disco Nights” by GQ. I can just see him hustling can’t you? Me and EJ share a deep love for LTD…when they wore funky clothes and danced like rabbits. DJ Diva is a true lover of Diva music so I had to include Donna Summers, Gloria Gaynor and start off the mix with two of my favorites by Diana Ross. My husband has been requesting Earth Wind and Fire for like forever so I blessed him with two of our favorite cuts. And lastly…My brothers…the twins…love to rollerskate so I included some songs I can remember from when my aunts used to take me skating at the old rink on 135th and Broadway.

I hope you enjoy it!

Track Listing

1. I’m Coming Out – Diana Ross
2. Upside Down – Diana Ross
3. (Every Time I Turn Around) Back In Love Again – LTD Featuring Jeffrey Osborne
4. Good Times – Chic
5. She’s A Bad Mama Jama – Carl Carlton
6. Rappers Delight – Sugarhill Gang
7. Apache – Sugarhill Gang
8. Le Freak – Chic
9. Hot Stuff – Donna Summers
10. Disco Nights – GQ
11. I Will Survive – Gloria Gaynor
12. Got To Give It Up – Marvin Gaye
13. Lets Groove Tonight – Earth, Wind and Fire
14. Do You Remember – Earth, Wind, & Fire
15. Flashlight – George Clinton & Parliament Funkadelic
16. Rock Creek Park – Blackbyrds
17. Fly, Robin, Fly – Silver Convention

Today’s Monday Mixtape is an oldschool artist spotlight on Barry White. I remember going to see his concert in 1995 at Madison Square Garden with my cousins. We sat behind Q-Tip and we was having so much fun…Q-Tip looked like he wanted to leave his date and join us! But seriously…Barry White was the ultimate love song soul singer. His songs had introductions that resembled foreplay..and he never let you down with his next course. This mixtape is also dedicated to my sister Divalicious…because of her I know all about the Icon of Love …I let the beat rock on a lot of these…I’m sure you hear the beats on most of your favorite rap and r&b songs sampled from Barry! Also some of my favorite deep voiced Podcasters stopped in to show me love: Mr. Fresh, Fave, DarrenKeith and of course the Sensei EJ Flavors!

Enjoy!

Track Listing

1. It’s Ecstacy, When You Lay Down Next To Me
2. Let The Music Play
3. Can’t Get Enough Of Your Love
4. What Am I Gonna Do With You
5. Honey Please, Can’t Ya See
6. Your Sweetness Is My Weakness
7. I’m Qualified To Satisfy You
8. You’re The First, My Last, My Everything
9. I’ll Do For You Anything You Want Me To
10. Don’t Make Me Wait Too Long
11. Never, Never Gonna Give You Up
12. Playing Your Game Baby
13. Come On
14. Oh, What A Night For Dancing
15. Just The Way You Are
16. Practice What You Preach
17. Staying Power
18. The Secret Garden – Feat. James Ingram, El DeBarge, and Al B. Sure
19. The Love Unlimited Orchestra – Satin Soul
20. The Love Unlimited Orchestra -Love’s Theme

Biography:

Early life and career
White was born in Galveston, Texas and grew up in the high-crime areas of South Central Los Angeles, where he joined a gang at the age of 10. At 17, he was jailed for four months for stealing $30,000 worth of Cadillac tires.

While in prison, White listened to Elvis Presley singing “It’s Now or Never” on the radio, an experience he later credited with changing the course of his life. After his release, he left gang life and began a musical career at the dawn of the 1960s in singing groups before going out on his own in the middle of the decade. The marginal success he had to that point was as a songwriter; his songs were recorded by rock singer Bobby Fuller and TV bubblegum act The Banana Splits. He was also responsible in 1963 for arranging “Harlem Shuffle” for Bob & Earl, which became a hit in the UK in 1969. He discovered disco artist Viola Wills in 1965, and signed her to Bronco Records.

Success
In August 1969, he got his break producing a girl group called Love Unlimited. His best friend Max Murray helped him get his start in music. He made Barry his prodigy and led him to fame. Formed in imitation of the legendary Motown girl group The Supremes, the group members honed their talents with White for the next two years until they all signed contracts with 20th Century Records. White produced, wrote and arranged the classic soul ballad “Walking in the Rain (With The One I Love)”, which hit the Top 20 of the pop charts. The group would score more hits throughout the ’70s and White eventually married the lead singer of the group, Glodean James.

While working on a few demos for a male singer, the record label suggested White step out in front of the microphone, to which he reluctantly agreed. His first solo chart hit, 1973′s “I’m Gonna Love You Just a Little More Baby”, rose to #1 R&B and #3 Pop. That same year, the Love Unlimited Orchestra’s recording of White’s composition “Love’s Theme” reached #1 Pop in 1974, one of only two instrumental recordings ever to do so. Some regard “Love’s Theme” as the first disco hit ever.

Other chart hits by White include “Never, Never Gonna Give You Up” (1973), “Can’t Get Enough of Your Love, Babe” (1974), “You’re the First, the Last, My Everything” (1974), “What Am I Gonna Do With You” (1975), “Let the Music Play” (1976), “It’s Ecstasy When You Lay Down Next To Me” (1977), “Your Sweetness is My Weakness” (1978), and “Change” (1982).

Considered handsome and deeply romantic by his many female fans and admired for the unique blend of soul and classical orchestral musical elements he created, White was often affectionately referred to as the “Maestro” or “The Man with the Velvet Voice”. His portly physical stature led some in the popular press to make condescending jokes about his weight by referring to White as the “Walrus of Love,” a moniker considered disrespectful by many fans. Barry White was also referred to as “The Sultan of Smooth Soul,” but it was his role as brainchild of the funk-fueled, deep soul band, the Love Unlimited Orchestra, in which he was widely branded on several early albums as the group’s Maestro, earning him the only documented nickname for which he and his musical colleagues were responsible.

Comebacks
Although White’s success on the pop charts slowed down as the disco era came to an end, he maintained a loyal following throughout his career. In the 1990s, he mounted an effective comeback with the albums The Icon Is Love (1994), whose biggest hit, “Practice What You Preach” reached the top of the charts. In 1996, White recorded the incredibly steamy “Wildest Dreams” with rock icon Tina Turner. Staying Power (1999) won 2 Grammy Awards. In addition, his music was often featured on the sitcom Ally McBeal and he appeared on the show twice.

Death
White had been ill with chronically high blood pressure for some time, which resulted in kidney failure in the autumn of 2002. He suffered a stroke in May 2003, after which he was forced to retire from public life. On 4 July, 2003, he died at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles from renal failure. White was cremated, and his ashes were scattered by his family off the California coast

On 20 September, 2004, he was posthumously inducted into the Dance Music Hall of Fame at a ceremony held in New York.

Hey Everybody…It’s time for the Aries Artist Spotlight!!!! Thanks for the birthday wishes (wink @AS)…it’s only 2 weeks from today!!!! I love yall…all of yall…(and yall too. I wish u the best)

This weeks Aries artist is Aretha Franklin. The Queen!

I don’t know about yall…but I am so tired of these gossip sites talking about Aretha and disrepecting her…especially when one of the loudest malcontents looks like a bulldog! For real…I’m sick of it. Like you haven’t worn the same outfit twice because you thought you looked good in it! Like you haven’t paid attention to society and did whatever you felt you wanted to do or worn what you wanted to wear…or even said what you wanted to say!!!

This woman is an icon and m-fers need to respect her as such.

That said…I’m such a stan for Re-Re. I can listen to her songs from the 60′s and 70′s and they apply to my heart in the present time. When Aretha sings gospel, I want to rededicate myself to Christ! When she sings about broken hearts, I am reminded of how it USED to feel. I’m a stan.

So here’s the mix and the Biography is below the break. Enjoy one of our beautiful queens and remember that Aries Divas will tell you just how it is and how it should be. I am no exception to that rule!

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Track Listing

Daydreaming
I Say A Little Prayer
Baby I Love You
Spanish Harlem
Rock Steady
Jump To It
Freeway of Love
Who’s Zoomin’ Who
The House That Jack Built
Respect
Since You Been Gone
Think
Chain of Fools
Rose Is Still A Rose (with Lauren Hill)
Oh Me Oh My
I Never Loved A Man
A Natural Woman
Giving Him Something He Can Feel
Sparkle
Bridge Over Troubled Water
Precious Lord, Take My Hand
Oh Happy Day (with Mavis Staples)
Hurts Like Hell (Waiting to Exhale Soundtrack)

Biography and more Pictures after the break!

Biography

Early life and career
Franklin was born on March 25, 1942, in Memphis, Tennessee to the Rev. C. L. Franklin, a Baptist minister, and Barbara Siggers Franklin. Aretha’s parents had a troubled relationship and they separated when Aretha was six. Siggers died of a heart attack when Franklin was ten. The fourth of five siblings, Aretha’s father’s first pulpit after Memphis was in Buffalo, New York. The family subsequently moved to Detroit, Michigan where Rev. Franklin assumed the pulpit of the New Bethel Baptist Church, and gained national fame as a preacher. Adept at the piano as well as having a gifted voice, Franklin became a child prodigy. By the age of fourteen, she signed a record deal with Checker Records, where her father recorded his sermons and gospel vocal recordings and issued The Gospel Soul of Aretha Franklin in 1956. Her earlier influences included Clara Ward and Mahalia Jackson, both of whom spent a lot of time in Aretha’s home.
Teenage pregnancies derailed Franklin’s gospel career when she gave birth to the first and second of her four sons in 1955 and 1957. By the time she returned to singing, instead of performing gospel and inspired by the successes of idols Dinah Washington and Sam Cooke, Aretha decided to secure herself a deal as a pop artist. After being offered contracts from Motown and RCA, Franklin signed with Columbia Records in 1960. Her recordings during that time reflected a jazz influence inspired by Washington and moved away from her gospel roots. Franklin initially scored a few hits on Columbia including her version of “Rock-A-Bye Your Baby (With A Dixie Melody)”, which peaked at number 37 on the Billboard Pop Singles chart in 1961, and the Top 10 R&B hits, “Today I Sing The Blues”, “Won’t Be Long” and “Operation Heartbreak”. However, by the end of 1966, with little commercial success in six years with Columbia and desperate for a sound, she accepted an offer to sign with Atlantic Records. According to Franklin years later, “they made me sit down on the piano and the hits came.”
“Queen of Soul”
In 1967 Franklin issued her first Atlantic single, “I Never Loved A Man (The Way I Love You)”, a blues ballad that introduced listeners to her gospel style. Produced by Jerry Wexler, the song became Franklin’s breakthrough single reaching the Top 10 on the Hot 100, and holding the #1 spot for 7 weeks on Billboard’s R&B Singles chart. The B-side to the single, “Do Right Woman, Do Right Man”, charted on the R&B side, and introduced a more gospel element to Franklin’s developing sound.
Her next single, “Respect”, firmly launched Franklin to superstardom. Written and originally recorded by Otis Redding, Franklin’s feminist version of the song became a hit reaching #1 on both the R&B and the Pop charts and helping her Atlantic debut album, I Never Loved A Man The Way I Love You, reach million-seller status. In the next ten months, Franklin released a number of top ten hits including “Baby I Love You”, “Chain Of Fools” and “(You Make Me Feel Like) A Natural Woman”.
In early 1968 Franklin won her first two Grammies (for “Respect”), including the first Grammy awarded in the “Best Female R&B Vocal Performance” category. Franklin went on to win eight “Best Female R&B Vocal Performance” awards in a row. Over the next seven years, Franklin continued to score hit singles including “Think”, “The House That Jack Built”, “I Say A Little Prayer” (a cover of Dionne Warwick’s hit), “Call Me”, “Don’t Play That Song” and “Spanish Harlem”.
By the end of the 1960s, Franklin’s position as The Queen of Soul was firmly established. Her albums were also hot sellers; one in particular, 1972′s Amazing Grace, eventually sold over two million US copies, becoming “the best-selling gospel album of all time”. Franklin’s hit streak continued into the mid-1970s. 1973′s emotional plea “Angel”, produced by Quincy Jones and written by Franklin’s sister Carolyn, was a stand out single that became yet another #1 on the R&B chart. The subsequent album Hey Now Hey (The Other Side of the Sky), however, was not successful.
1974′s Gold-certified single “Until You Come Back to Me (That’s What I’m Gonna Do)” hit #1 R&B and #3 on the Billboard Hot 100. By 1975, however, with the expanding exposure of Disco and the popularity of fellow Atlantic artist Roberta Flack, relations between Franklin and Atlantic Records were starting to strain. As a result, Aretha was recording poor material such as 1975′s listless You album, and her record sales declined dramatically. Franklin had peaked while the music industry was moving on to younger black female singers such as Natalie Cole, Chaka Khan, and Donna Summer.

Decline and tragedy
In 1976, Franklin’s Curtis Mayfield-produced soundtrack of the film, Sparkle, briefly brought Franklin out of her funk. It was her first album to reach Gold status since the landmark Amazing Grace. The suggestive “(Giving Him) Something He Can Feel” became a number-one R&B smash and reached #28 on the Pop side. However, it was Aretha’s only Pop Top 40 appearance during the second half of the 1970s. Her later period Atlantic albums including Sweet Passion, Almighty Fire and La Diva were critical as well as sales failures and to top it off Franklin owed major debts to the IRS for failure to pay back taxes. Her recording contract with Atlantic ran out at the end of 1979 and neither Aretha nor the company had any desire to renew it. On June 10, 1979, Franklin’s minister father, the Rev. C.L. Franklin, was seriously wounded during what was said to be an attempted robbery at his Linwood Avenue home in Detroit, leaving him in a comatose state in which he remained until he died in the summer of 1984.

Return to prominence
In 1980, Franklin’s career was given a much-needed boost thanks to a cameo appearance on The Blues Brothers, singing Think as Mrs. Matt Murphy. That same year, Clive Davis signed Aretha to his Arista Records. The singles “United Together” and “Love All The Hurt Away” – a duet with George Benson – returned her to the Top 10 on the Billboard R&B Singles chart. But it was the spectacular 1982 album, Jump To It, produced by longtime admirer Luther Vandross, and the title-track 45 that gave Aretha her first R&B chart-topping and pop success since “(Giving Him) Something He Can Feel”. The Jump To It album enjoyed a long run at #1 on Billboard’s R&B Albums chart (even the Zoomin’ album only reached #3). It won an American Music Award, was nominated for a Grammy and was certified Gold in early 1983 – Aretha’s first Gold disc since the 1976 Sparkle album.
The following year Franklin and Vandross collaborated again on the disappointing Get It Right. But in 1985, Franklin’s sound was commercialized into a glossy pop sound as she experienced her first-ever Platinum-certified album, Who’s Zoomin’ Who?. Yielding smash hits like the Motown-influenced “Freeway of Love”, the title track, and her duet with rock duo Eurythmics, “Sisters Are Doing It For Themselves”, the album became the first Platinum certification of Aretha’s entire career, reintroducing her sound to a younger generation of fans. In 1986, Franklin did nearly as well with an album simply titled Aretha which yielded her first number-one pop single in two decades with the George Michael duet, “I Knew You Were Waiting (For Me)”. The album is noteworthy for the striking cover which was Andy Warhol’s last work before his death. Other hits included her cover of The Rolling Stones’ “Jumpin’ Jack Flash” and the girl group-inspired “Jimmy Lee”. When Aretha was taken out of print, it had sold over nine million copies worldwide.
Aretha returned to gospel in 1987 with her album One Lord, One Faith, One Baptism which was recorded live at her New Bethel Baptist Church in Detroit. However, the disc was a far cry from her 1972 effort Amazing Grace and had middling sales. Subsequent follow-ups such as 1989′s Through The Storm and 1991′s What You See Is What You Sweat sold poorly and failed to produce any major mainstream hits – other than the former album’s Elton John-featured title track – but her career got a slight boost in 1993 when she scored a dance-club hit with “Deeper Love” off the Sister Act 2: Back In The Habit soundtrack. In 1994, she scored a top forty hit with the Babyface-produced ballad, “Willing To Forgive”.
Franklin returned to prominence with her 1998 album, A Rose Is Still A Rose. The album’s mixture of urban contemporary, hip-hop soul and soul was a departure from Franklin’s previous material. The title track, produced by Lauryn Hill, gave her a smash hit on the R&B and Pop charts and earned a gold single while the album was certified gold also, the first time since 1986′s Aretha that any of the singer’s albums went gold. That same year, with less than twenty-four hours to prepare, Franklin stepped in for Luciano Pavarotti to sing “Nessun Dorma” at the 1998 Grammy Awards. (Pavarotti, who was awarded a Lifetime Achievement Award that night, was too sick to attend.) She gave a soulful and highly improvised performance in the aria’s original key, while firmly stamping out the year with a captivating performance during VH-1′s “Divas Live” telecast.
Recent years
Following the success of A Rose Is Still A Rose, Franklin has continued recording if only sporadically. Her most recent release was 2003′s So Damn Happy, which included the Grammy-winning track “Wonderful”. Shortly after its release, Franklin left Arista Records after twenty-three years with the company. She has since started her own label, Aretha Records, and plans to issue her long-promised new album, A Woman Falling Out Of Love in 2008. She is also coaching young actors during auditions for a musical based on her autobiography, From These Roots.
In 1998, Franklin also took again her role of Mrs. Murphy in Blues Brothers 2000, this time singing her old hit “Respect”. Like in the 1980 movie, she plays the possessive wife of the lead guitarist of the Blues Brothers Band, singing the song during a row with her husband about his joining his former band.
Aretha has released a new album “Jewels In The Crown: All-Star Duets With The Queen” The disc features duets performed with Whitney Houston, Luther Vandross, Richard Marx, John Legend, Annie Lennox, Mary J. Blige, Frank Sinatra, George Michael, Christina Aguilera, George Benson, Fantasia, Gloria Estefan, and Mariah Carey. A duet with Faith Hill has been recorded but it’s not on the album. The album includes two new recordings with Fantasia, on the lead single “Put You Up On Game” and John Legend. The lead single “Put You Up On Game” hit radio on October 1, 2007 and became the number one most added song on Urban AC radio the following week. The album also includes Aretha’s historical rendition of “Nessun Dorma” from the 1998 Grammy telecast. The album was released November 13, 2007 on Arista Records.
On February 8, 2008, Franklin was honored as MusiCares “Person of the Year”, two days prior to the 50th Annual Grammy Awards where she was awarded her 20th Grammy.

Personal life
Twice divorced, Franklin is the mother of four grown sons. Two of her sons, Kecalf and Teddy, are active in the music business. Teddy is the musical director and guitarist of Franklin’s touring band. From 1961 to 1969, Aretha was married to her manager and co-writer Ted White. In 1978 she married Cooley High actor Glynn Turman. White had been a decade older than Aretha while Turman was four years younger. The marriage lasted until late 1982 when Franklin and her family returned permanently to Detroit. She and Turman officially divorced in early 1984.
She is the godmother of Whitney Houston, who also grew up to be a pop star, rising to fame in the mid 1980s. A still image of Franklin was shown in the closing scene of Houston’s late 1985 video for the single How Will I Know.

Awards and achievements
On January 3, 1987, she became the first woman to be inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
In May 1987, she was awarded an honorary Doctor of Musicology degree from the University of Detroit.
In September, 1999, she was awarded The National Medal of Arts by President Clinton.
In 2004, Rolling Stone Magazine ranked her #9 on their list of the 100 Greatest Artists of All Time. To give perspective to this honor, only the Beatles, Bob Dylan, Elvis Presley, the Rolling Stones, Chuck Berry, Jimi Hendrix, James Brown, and Little Richard finished ahead of her on this list. Ray Charles finished at number ten, right behind Franklin.
In 2005, she was awarded The Presidential Medal of Freedom by President George W. Bush.
In 2005, she became the second woman (Madonna being the first, a founding member) to be inducted into the UK Music Hall of Fame.
On May 13, 2006, she was presented with an honorary Doctor of Music degree by the Berklee College of Music.
On May 14, 2007, she was presented with an honorary Doctor of Music degree from the University of Pennsylvania.
Is an honorary member of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc.
She is the youngest recipient of a Kennedy Center Honor.
First black woman to appear on the cover of Time magazine.
On February 8, 2008, Franklin was honored as MusiCares “Person of the Year”.
On February 14, 2008, Franklin was given the Vanguard award at the NAACP Image awards.
In 2008, Franklin was added to PETA’s ‘Worst-Dressed Celebrities of 2008’ after appearing at the Grammy awards in a full length fur coat.
Grammy Awards
Franklin has won twenty Grammy Awards in total during her nearly half-century long career (she first charted in 1961), and holds the record for most Best Female R&B Vocal Performance award with eleven to her name (including eight consecutive awards from 1968 to 1975 – the first eight awarded in that category). (bio credit)

And DJ Diva Loves her with all her Heart.

It’s MARCH!!! That means it’s my birthday month! This Month I’m turning the big 3-5!

My musical lifespan includes 4 decades of music starting with the 70′s. I’m proud to be a 70′s baby LOL.

So we starting the month off with some of my disco favorites. My parents were hustle fanatics and my father was the Dominican Hustle King of 135th and Broadway! That me with my disco daddy! In the seventies and the early part of the eighties…everybody did the hustle…and if you weren’t fly with it? I’ve been told they quickly shut you down on the dance floor! I still do the hustle. My cousin C and I usually end up doing it at family functions, to the delight of our younger generation who weren’t as fortunate as we were to see it up close by Pros. I didn’t include Van McCoy’s “Do The Hustle” in the mixtape ….but I have a video to show you what it was like if you don’t know!!!

I’m gonna follow it up with the REMIX on Thursday so if you don’t hear your favorite…don’t be discouraged! I hope you all enjoy it and don’t forget to give me some birthday love this month!

Cherchez La Femme/Se Si Bon – Dr. Buzzard’s Original Savannah Band
Native New Yorker – Odyssey (DJ Diva Theme Song)
Love To Love you – Donna Summer
Love Hangover – Diana Ross (DJ Diva Karaoke Song)
Dim All The Lights- Donna Summer (DJ Diva Karaoke Song)
Don’t Leave Me This Way – Thelma Houston (DJ Diva Karaoke Song)
I Love The Nightlife – Alicia Bridges(DJ Diva Karaoke Song)
More Than A Woman – Bee Gees
I Just Want To Be Your Everything- Andy Gibb
He’s The Greatest Dancer – Sister Sledge
Boogie Nights – Earth, Wind & Fire
Second Time Around (Extended Disco Mix) – Shalamar
All I Do – Stevie Wonder
Love Is The Message – MFSB & The SalSoul Orchestra
Love’s Theme – Love Unlimited Orchestra