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Betcha by Golly Wow You're the one that I've been waiting for
1971 
1996 A whisper that builds a room around someone else. The smallest witnesses are the truest. A declaration so quiet the defendant could only surrender.
The Stylistics released it in 1971. Prince covered it live in the 2000s, taking that same quiet declaration and filling it with falsetto. The room got bigger but the vulnerability stayed.
I'm searchin' for a real love
1992 Done with the fake ones. Men who talked big and delivered nothing. Real love is not a luxury. It is a requirement. She will wait for a man who opens doors. She will not pretend to be satisfied with less than she actually deserves.
Denzel Washington became Malcolm X the way actors dream of occupying a role: completely, without a trace of performance. Spike Lee tracked the journey from Malcolm Little to El-Hajj Malik El-Shabazz, every phase a different man with the same fire burning underneath.
Sam Cooke's 'A Change Is Gonna Come' plays over the closing credits, the horn section lifting like a prayer he never lived to see answered. The film runs three hours and twenty minutes and earns every second. The film ends. The work does not.
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1,414 artist portraits across 5 genres (Rock, Jazz, Soul, Blues, Folk). 1,363 sourced from Wikipedia (Creative Commons / Public Domain), 50 from Deezer (promotional artwork).
