
Fleetwoodf Blac, origin story!
Months ago, Alan Okuye and Mark Caldeira approached me to do the music of Fleetwood Mac. My initial thoughts were....how will I be received as the lead singer of this very famously Anglo-Saxon band? Stevie Nicks is a tough act to portray coming from the other end of the melanin spectrum. Lol! My husband Ted, who I refer to in professional circles as "King Ted", popped up and said, "honey you should call it Fleetwood Blac!" It was catchy, and ticked off a few boxes. 1 - Blac rhymes with Mac 2 - Fleetwood Brown just didn't have the same ring to it 3 - if Stevie Nicks is white and I am Black Hawaiian, why not go there? I can dress and sound like a hippie chick while having a blast doing it! In the text thread with the band that includes Alan functioning as the musical director, Mark on drums and vocals, Darrell Aquino who secured the date, and newly added steel guitarist Greg Sardinha, I began calling it that. No one flinched! So there it is. It wasn't until much later that perhaps a wife popped up and said, "huh? Fleetwood Blac?" When I explained the aforementioned ...
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