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Fashion. Beauty. Health. Life. Style. Music. Art.
Jody Watley is a style forging pioneer, innovator and Grammy Award winning recording artist and hit-making songwriter. She has amassed an incredible 32 Top Ten Singles in a diverse range of genres from Pop, Dance, and R&B from the 80's, 90's and 00's, 10's.
Jody Watley was named one of "America's Most Beautiful" by People Magazine and Harper's Bazaar, and has also been featured in fashion magazines around the world including the historic "The Black Issue" of VOGUE Italia.
She's also renowned for her trendsetting style including jumbo hoop earring many still refer to as 'Jody Watley Hoops.'
She has the quiet distinction as the first mainstream artist to incorporate a rapper with the customized 16 bar verse on her multi-format 1989 hit single "Friends" featuring Eric B and Rakim, wanting to go beyond the Melle Mel Chaka Khan song "I Feel For You" intro. Subsequent collaborations merging R&B/Pop with Hip-Hop/Rap became such successful formula in Pop Music and that The Grammy's added the Rap/Sung Category in 2002.
Watley's stylish video "Real Love" directed by Academy Award Nominated Director David Fincher remains one of MTV's Most Nominated videos.
Jody Watley released a Top 10 Fitness Video selling over a million copies titled "Dance to Fitness", a first for an African American Woman and Artist. Watley also appeared in the first celebrity ad campaign for GAP, LA Eyeworks and a previously unprecedented 15 page layout in the prestigious Fall Catalog for Saks Fifth Avenue photographed by the legendary Skrebneski.
To learn more visit her official website.
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Hello Jody Watley!
I send you a message on the bookingjodywatley@gmail.com but I don't know If you'll get it, so that's why im contacting you here.
We are two girls from Finland writing a monthly column about street dance and street style in a Finnish girls magazine called Miss Mix. We are writing about Soul Train on our April issue. Would be nice If you could briefly share us your memories and knowledge. We will also release the interview in our blog.(www.badassstyle.blogspot.com)
-How did you end up being a part of The Soul Train program?
-What is your best memory of the show?
-How did the Show impact the street dance culture?
We would also need a funky picture of you with the interview. A good quality picture with a resolution at least 1000mb, so that the picture is printable.
Our deadline is on Friday (17th of February), so we would appreciate your fast response.
Your music, dance, style and beauty have been big inspiration for us in our own dance and style! We also dance street dance, mainly hip hop and waacking. You are so versatile with an amazing sense of style.
Heres a link to our previous columns:
http://badassstyle.blogspot.com/2012/01/badass-crew-column-miss-mix-issue-22012.html
http://badassstyle.blogspot.com/p/column-in-miss-mix.html
And a link to the magazines page:
http://www.missmix.fi/
Lots of love from Finland!
Marika Peura and Kaisa Nieminen
badassstyle@gmail.com
www.badassstyle.blogspot.com
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