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Taken from ABC (June 23, 2003)
Michael Franti & Spearhead - Everyone Deserves Music
Date of Review: Monday, 23 June 2003
Michael Franti: Everyone deserves music |
Michael Franti was adopted at birth by white parents in the predominantly black community of Oakland, California. That set of contradictory circumstances instilled in him a hyper-awareness of his own cultural identity. In his early twenties he was an angry young hip-hopper with a politically, socially conscious bent in The Beatnigs, then the Disposable Heroes of Hiphoprisy and later Spearhead.
These days Michael has channelled his seriousness, his social unease, and his desire for change and merged them with his love for music - particularly old-school R&B, soul, and hip-hop.
In contrast with some of his earlier releases, Everyone Deserves Music captures Franti in an upbeat, if not exuberant, mood. Anyone who caught him at this year's East Coast Blues and Roots Festival would know that he is indeed a happy man. If you missed out he is returning to Australia in August and will be playing in Brisbane.
Michael Franti and Spearhead's new album Everyone Deserves Music is the ABC Coast FM Album of the Week June 23 to 29.
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