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Good thing we started this weekly music feature because JUNE is Black Music Month. Every week, Kinnks will feature a music video with some type of natural hair inspiration! Last Wednesday was our first musical feature Teyana Taylor.
This week we ask ourselves, who can be better than Chrisette Michele? Going through a big chop can be difficult. Can you imagine doing it in front of millions?!?! Chrisette rocks her BC with style and grace…
About Chrisette: An American R&B and soul singer–songwriter on the Island Def Jam Music Group. She won a Grammy Award for Best Urban/Alternative Performance in 2009 for her song “Be OK”. Blessed with a gorgeous instrument and described as a “soulful songbird,” the Long Island native proved to the world that she could live up to the hype. Nominated for a BET Award for Best New Artist as well as two Grammy’s,
Dang - these photos make me want to chop it all off again! Think the photos are inspirational?
On her official website, Chrisette posted a poem
‘For Freedom Not For Beauty’
There’s a beauty that lives so deep inside each of us.
There’s a fickle eye that doesn’t believe anything it sees….
There’s a benefit in love that erases all doubt and believes good intentions.
There’s an ear that isn’t free enough to give the honest man the benefit of the doubt cluttered by lies not-mentioned.
Since when is creativity subject to criticism?
When is honesty subject to a jury of fears who wouldn’t believe rain if it fell, or sun if it shined?
Sometimes a flower grows when no ones watching.
Sometimes a bird sings and no one hears.
There’s a meadow no one runs on and a cloud no one names.
And what would the sky be with out the sun?
What would the earth be with out its rose?
They’d still be the sky and the Earth.
So perhaps there is a peace in becoming.
Perhaps the meaning is in the experience and not the sight.
Maybe a flower grows because it suffocates under ground.
Whether or not she is always noticed, beauty must become.
She doesn’t look for an eye.
She doesn’t listen for a voice.
She just becomes,
For Freedom Not For Beauty
~Chrisette Michele
Links you may enjoy…
* Chrisette Michele embraces her Kinnks
* Nappturalite Radio: Chrisette Michele Interview 6/6 @ 6pm
* Afrobella: Chrisette Michele’s Natural Hair Journey
* Official Chrisette Michele
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