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Sathnam Sanghera

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
293 total appearances

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The Waterstones Podcast
Sathnam Sanghera

Haven't got the right terminology off the top of my head But yeah, and you saw it recently the George was put into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and McGwell Yeah, one of my favorite modern artists sang careless whisper with a saxophone and the saxophone player Butchered it it was so bad.

The Waterstones Podcast
Sathnam Sanghera

That's because it's hard to play.

The Waterstones Podcast
Sathnam Sanghera

I also imagine being 20 and having only recorded eight songs and sacking Jerry Wexler.

The Waterstones Podcast
Sathnam Sanghera

You know, I think it was called The Father of R&B.

The Waterstones Podcast
Sathnam Sanghera

Going now, I think I'll do my own version.

The Waterstones Podcast
Sathnam Sanghera

Imagine if Ed Sheeran did that, he'd be laughed out.

The Waterstones Podcast
Sathnam Sanghera

It's important to say that he never said that his voice sounded black or even he never claimed the title of soul singer for himself.

The Waterstones Podcast
Sathnam Sanghera

But he won some very important black music awards in the late 80s and it caused a huge controversy about cultural appropriation.

The Waterstones Podcast
Sathnam Sanghera

I think the solution to that is to just say, look,

The Waterstones Podcast
Sathnam Sanghera

He wasn't white or black.

The Waterstones Podcast
Sathnam Sanghera

He was just a very soulful pop singer.

The Waterstones Podcast
Sathnam Sanghera

And I think it does go back to him being the child of an immigrant.

The Waterstones Podcast
Sathnam Sanghera

I do think that if you're a child of an immigrant, you absorb culture differently in that there aren't so many people around you telling you what's tasteful and what isn't.

The Waterstones Podcast
Sathnam Sanghera

And you have a kind of innocence to the way you absorb all music.

The Waterstones Podcast
Sathnam Sanghera

And I mean, there's a long history of the children of immigrants working with black musicians.

The Waterstones Podcast
Sathnam Sanghera

But George definitely, I think he talked about how his first two records was a record by Tom Jones and a record by the Supremes.

The Waterstones Podcast
Sathnam Sanghera

And he said his voice ended up somewhere in between, you know, and

The Waterstones Podcast
Sathnam Sanghera

And the other thing is that so many black musicians wanted to work with him, which says it all.